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Unable to Detect Faint Stars #2239

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Issue RCAL-1364 was created on JIRA by Paul Huwe:

While examining the output (detected sources) of source injection, I have observed that stellar completeness drops off about 2 magnitudes brighter than the faint star limit for Roman. Surprisingly, this does not occur for galaxies:

!image-2026-03-20-16-27-13-547.png|width=389,height=312!

We expect stellar matching (red line) to remain at a high percentage until roughly the AB Mag limit (red dotted-line).

Tests were run on a sample of noise + injected sources, as well as a standard Roman Data Workshop file + injected sources. The magnitudes of injected sources were:

!image-2026-03-20-16-25-31-934.png|width=515,height=287!

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