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Reference File  Date Applied  Detector  Description
					
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Flat Field      06/10/04        HRC    PEDIGREE keyword value for G800L flat changed
                                       from DUMMY to dummy to correct error array values.

Flat Field      04/13/04        HRC    Coronagraph flats for F502N, F550M, F555W, F625W
                                       F658N, F660N, F775W, F850LP and F892N now use the
                                       non-coron flats with the dust mote for OTFR pipeline 
                                       calibrations. Real coronagraph flats for F606W and F814W 
                                       with the dust mote were also redelivered.  
                                       
Flat Field      04/05/04        HRC    F435W, F475W, F502N, F550M, F555W, F606W, F625W
                                       F658N, F660N, F775W, F814W, F850LP, F892N, all RAMP,
                                       F220W+coron and F250W+coron had the fastie finger
                                       reduced in size, dust motes updated and DQ values corrected.

Flat Field      03/11/04        HRC     F435W, F475W and F606W coronagraph flats updated.

Flat Field      12/16/03        HRC     F6814W coron flat with spots patched 
					from the on-orbit normal HRC F814W flat,
					plus some shifting to align various features.

Flat Field      10/27/03        WFC     F606W nominal and minus flats
                                        redelivered for pipeline use.

Flat Field      10/23/03      WFC,HRC   All nominal,plus and minus flats
                                        (re)delivered for pipeline use.

Flat Field	07/09/03	WFC	F606W "nominal" and plus" flats 
					delivered for pipeline use.

Flat Field	07/01/03	WFC	Broadband Flats redelivered 
					after corrections to DQ array

Flat Field	06/12/03	WFC,HRC	Unity G800L Flats allow calacs to
					gain correct to grism data

Flat Field	05/01/03	HRC	NUV Earth Flats redelivered as
					documented in ACS ISR 2003-02
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Flat Field	03/31/03	WFC	Clear filter flat redelivered after
					error array correction

Flat Field	02/13/03	WFC,HRC	Flats delivered for calibration
					when both clear filters are used.

Flat field	09/30/02	HRC	Inflight L-flat corrections (~10%)
					included for polarizers

Flat field	09/26/02	WFC	Inflight L-flat corrections (~10%)
                                        included for polarizers

Flat field      09/11/02        HRC     Inflight L-flat corrections (~10%)
                                        applied for broad and narrow bands

Flat field      08/11/02        WFC     Renormalized WFC flats (~2% change)
                                        Corrected error and dq arrays
                                        
Flat field      07/25/02        WFC     Inflight L-flat corrections (~10%)
                                        included for broad and narrow bands
                                        (see ISR 02-08)

Flat field      05/28/02        WFC     UV Polarizer flats delivered
                                        for F435W, F660N and F814W

Flat field      05/08/02        WFC     A minor masking problem in the   
                                        corner of amp A was corrected 
                                        for the WFC
                                        
Flat field      05/08/02        HRC     Dust mote patch applied after
                                        inflight tests indicated that
                                        one dust mote disappeared                                        

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Distortion      10/27/03        WFC     Added F814W + Polarizer filter combinations.
Correction                              

Distortion      07/30/03        WFC,HRC Added G800L + Ramp filter combinations.
Correction                              

Distortion      07/07/03        HRC     Added F814W + UVPOL filter combinations.
Correction                              

Distortion      06/24/03        HRC     Added ACQ filters combinations
Correction                              f220W+(f502n, f550m or f606w).

Distortion      03/14/03        All     Corrected small errors in WFC polarizer
Correction                              and all HRC coefficients.

Distortion      02/06/03        All     Enable polarizers to use unique distortion
Correction                              solutions when PyDrizzle is modified to do so.
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Distortion      09/05/02        All     Fourth-order distortion solution
Correction                              derived from inflight data

Distortion      12/05/02        All     Recalculated using Oct 21 FGS
Correction                              alignment data
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CCD Table       01/06/04        All     Updated gain values as per ACS ISR 2004-01.

CCD Table       10/08/03        All     Updated bias level entires used for
                                        subarrays without overscans.

CCD Table       04/22/03        All     Updated bias level entires used for
                                        subarrays without overscans.
                                        Will now update bias levels regularly. 

CCD Table       10/16/02        WFC     Corrected saturation from ~32,800
                                        to ~65,600 counts for chip2 when 
                                        using ccdamp=ABCD and ccdgain = 1 or 2.

CCD Table       07/22/02        All     Readnoise, subarray bias level,
                                        and CCD saturation values updated
                                        using inflight data
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Sensitivity     12/10/03      WFC,HRC   QE tables improved by 1-2%, includes the
(synphot table)			        f475w,f502n,f550m,f606w,f658n,f660n and 
					f892n sensitivity tables.

Sensitivity     03/18/03        All     ACS encircled energy tables now enable 
(synphot table)			        apertures to be specified in synphot. 

Sensitivity     02/07/03        WFC     WFC quantum efficiency tables changed 
(synphot table)			        above 8000 angstroms from inflight data

Sensitivity     01/13/03        HRC     Coronograph throughput table changed 
(synphot table)			        from 0.52 to 0.475 as stated in the
					ACS Instrument Handbook.

Sensitivity     09/12/02      WFC,HRC   UV and V polarizer sensitivity 
(synphot table)			        values extrapolated for wavelengths 
					beyond 9000A.

Sensitivity     08/20/02      WFC,HRC   CCD table further updated at the 
(synphot table)				several percent level.

Sensitivity     08/08/02      WFC,HRC   CCD table updated from initial 
(synphot table)				inflight data with large scale 
					changes at the 20% level

Sensitivity     04/18/02        WFC     CCD chip2 table defined to be equal
(synphot table)
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Bad Pixel       09/25/03      WFC       Added bad pixels for WFC gain 2
Table                                   AMP B subarrays.


Bad Pixel       08/29/02      WFC,HRC   Table updated using new threshholds
Table                                   and pixel flag values

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Cosmic-Ray      04/17/03      WFC,HRC   Changed BADINPDQ column to 39
Rej Table                               as documented in TIR 03-xx.

Cosmic-Ray      10/18/02      WFC,HRC   Changed SCALENOISE column back to 3.00%
Rej Table                               for WFC and HRC now that calacs supports
                                        this value. 

Cosmic-Ray      09/26/02      WFC,HRC   Changed SCALENOISE column back to 3.0%
Rej Table                               for WFC and 5.0% for HRC.

Cosmic-Ray      09/13/02      WFC,HRC   Updated SCALENOISE column to 30.0%
Rej Table                               

Cosmic-Ray      08/19/02      WFC,HRC   Updated BADINPDQ column to appropriately
Rej Table                               handle saturated pixels during crrej
                                        
Cosmic-Ray      04/23/02      WFC,HRC   Changed default "scalenoise" to 
Rej Table                               3% for WFC and 5% for HRC             

Cosmic Ray      04/18/02      WFC,HRC   Updated crsigmas, crradius and crthresh
Rej Table				from inflight data

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Bias Images	04/22/03      WFC,HRC	Non-default gain superbias images (WFC=2, HRC=4)
					are now delivered monthly for pipeline processing.
						

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