## Listing Results

Results: 400

### ISR 2019-10: WFC3/UVIS CTE Monitor: Efficacy of Post-Flash in the UVIS Darks

August 16, 2019J. V. Medina, M. Bourque, S. Baggett
In late 2012 when the post-flash capability became available on-orbit, the WFC3/UVIS daily monitoring program was modified to acquire flashed dark observations in order to mitigate CTE loss and improve the hot pixel maps generated from the superdarks. To determine the efficacy of flashing the UVIS darks, we performed a comparative analysis using the un-flashed equivalent of the post-flashed reference files. The overall behavior of the hot pixel and median dark current evolution shows that post-flashed superdarks contain at least ≅ 50% more hot pixels, and had ≅ 2 electrons/hr lower dark current for each anneal cycle. A study of the hot pixel maps of several post-flashed and un-flashed superdarks shows that flashing the detector does have its limitations, as a ≅ 55% efficiency drop-off was found between the first few and last few rows for the post-flashed superdark (for each chip). Application of the CTE correction step in calwf3 can mitigate the CTE losses further. Finally, we note that flashing the detector has proven to be most efficient at preserving the hot pixels in the middle of the chip.

### ISR 2019-08: Periodicity in the WFC3/UVIS Bias Pre-Scan

July 26, 2019H. G. Khandrika, T. D. Desjardins
We report the results of a study of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) UVIS detector bias pre-scan level fluctuations since installation in 2009. The study was performed by extracting the bias level from the header information of 27,069 calibrated full-frame UVIS images of various targets. We look for variability in the data by computing the $\chi^2$ statistic and we look for periodic signals in the data by performing Lomb-Scargle periodogram analysis and phase dispersion minimization. We find an overall decrease in the bias pre-scan levels of 1.2 to 2.2 electrons over 10 years depending on quadrant. We find long-term periodicity of 0.5 year cycles and short-term periodicity for both chips at 54.7 day cycles. We compare our results with findings from the Advanced Camera for Surveys Wide Field Channel instrument, which observed similar variations and periodicity, but with more structure and larger overall bias level losses. While the fluctuations do not affect science data, they serve as a litmus test for the behavior of the detector, ancillary components, and sensors that may not be able to detect subtle changes over time.

### ISR 2019-09: Comparison of WFC3/UVIS Geometric Distortions Solutions to Gaia Data Release 2

July 03, 2019C.Martlin, V. Bajaj, V. Kozhurina-Platais
The central region of the globular cluster Omega Centauri has been monitored over the last 10 years using the WFC3 UVIS and IR instruments for the purposes of calibrating and monitoring the detectors' geometric distortion. In the current study, the DrizzlePac/TweakReg software was used to investigate the accuracy of the current WFC3/UVIS geometric distortion solutions over time by comparing it against the Gaia DR2 catalog. Using the TweakReg output parameters, which are calculated with allowance for linear terms in the transformations between the coordinate systems, we are able to verify the stability of the WFC3/UVIS geometric distortions over time in the range of << 0.001 pixels and find no discernible temporal variation. We are able to conclude that, because of the extremely crowded field in the central regions of omega Cen, the proper motions in the Gaia DR2 catalog have RMS errors that are 10 times larger than expected. This means that Gaia DR2 cannot currently be useful as an absolute reference system for refining the geometric solutions for WFC3/UVIS, at least not with this much-observed field.

### ISR 2019-07: WFC3/IR Photometric Repeatability

June 07, 2019V. Bajaj
The infrared channel of Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is frequently used to obtain precision photometric measurements. We investigate the repeatability of WFC3 infrared (WFC3/IR) photometry by analyzing repeated observations of local stellar clusters and star forming regions. In general, the 1σ repeatability for aperture photometry is ±1.5%, even with (included) Poisson noise well under 1%. The repeatability seems to be affected by persistence of previous exposures, which can mostly be alleviated by dithering to previously unused positions, with a spacing of at least 10 pixels between positions. Observations taken this way have a much better 1σ repeatability limit of 0.5% (when Poisson noise is much smaller than 1%). The repeated measurements of standard white dwarf stars used in the absolute photometric calibration show a spread of σ = 1.5%, (Poisson noise is approximately 0.5%, indicating the repeatability is also affected by persistence) so the calibration will be improved by taking observations with a more advantageous dither strategy.

### ISR 2019-06: Monitoring of the Internal Flat Fields for WFC3/IR

May 22, 2019R. E. Ryan
We analyze 10 cycles of WFC3/IR internal flat field images taken with the tungsten lamp, which includes two additional years of data since ISR WFC3 2015-11. We follow past analyses to mask short- and long-term persistence, determine robust image statistics, and create stacked subsets of the data. We show that the mode count-rate of each filter is decreasing with time and is strongly correlated with wavelength, such that the data from the red filters (e.g. F153M and F160W) show very little variation (~0.05 %/yr), while the blue filters (e.g. F098M) decrease by typically ~0.35 %/yr. We present "master" and "cycle" stacks, where we combine the normalized exposures for all and a given cycle, respectively. From inspection of ratio images (cycle-to-master), we do not find strong evidence for changes in the pixel-to-pixel sensitivities as a function of time for most filters and cycles. The largest deviations are for F125W between cycles 17 and 18, where the wagon wheel changes considerably. Combined with the photometric stability, our results imply that the tungsten lamp is effectively becoming redder with time, which is consistent with the filament-vaporization hypothesis Baggett (2009), whereby the tungsten filament is vaporizing over time and coats the inner surface of the lamp and acting as an additional filtering surface.

### ISR 2019-05: Improved Drizzled Data Products for the WFC3/IR Detector

May 06, 2019J. Mack, V. Bajaj

### ISR 2019-04: Time-dependent WFC3/IR Superdarks

May 06, 2019B. Sunnquist, M. Mckay, S. Baggett

### ISR 2019-03: Time-dependent WFC3/IR Bad Pixel Tables

May 06, 2019B. Sunnquist, G. Brammer, S. Baggett

### ISR 2019-02: A characterization of persistence at short times in the WFC3/IR detector. II

April 24, 2019M. Gennaro, S. Baggett, V. Bajaj

### ISR 2019-01: Calibration of the WFC3-IR Count-rate Nonlinearity, Sub-percent Accuracy for a Factor of a Million in Flux

January 23, 2019A. G. Riess, Gautham Narayan, Annalisa Calamida

### ISR 2018-15: Using Dark Images to Characterize Pixel Stability in the WFC3/UVIS Detector

December 18, 2018M. Bourque, D. Borncamp, S. Baggett, T. Desjardins, N. Grogin

### ISR 2018-16: WFC3/UVIS - Temporal and Spatial Variations in Photometry

November 06, 2018H. Khandrika, S. Deustua, J. Mack

### ISR 2018-17: WFC3/UVIS Gain Stability Results for Cycles 24 and 25

October 22, 2018J. Fowler

### ISR 2018-14: Focus-Diverse PSFs for Five Commonly Used WFC3/UVIS Filters

October 03, 2018J. Anderson

### ISR 2018-13: Linear Reconstruction of Grism Spectroscopy I. Simulation and Extraction Examples

September 30, 2018R. E. Ryan, S. Casertano, N. Pirzkal
LAST UPDATED: 06/17/2019