Newsletters
COS and STIS Combined Newsletters:
February 2012 STAN
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs)
June 2010 STAN
New COS TA Policy and APT 18.2 Updates
STAN - Sept 2009
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs)
STIS CCD Detector - Living with Radiation Damage
STIS CCD CTE effects and mitigations
STIS NUV MAMA Detector Dark Current
Describes larger than expected NUV MAMA dark current
figure2a
measured median dark current
figure2b
measured median dark current
isfplot
isf plot
Overview of STIS Status after Orbital Verification
Overview of STIS status after Orbital Verification
STAN - June 2008
ETC improvements, BOP requirements, CALSTIS upgrades, GO-WAVECAL associations updates and more.
New STIS spectral extraction box size options in ETC
STIS BOP policies and tools
Changes in the STIS ETC
New STIS spectral extraction box size options in ETC release 17.2
Changes in Treatment of STIS GO-WAVECAL Exposures (TARGET=WAVE)
GO-WAVECALs can now be used by OTFR if AUTO-WAVECALs absent
Differences in retrieval and calibration of pre-repair and
Post-repair STIS data will use OTFR; Older data to be
retrieved from static archive
Recent improvements in the STIS Calibration Pipeline and Data
"Holfeltz et al. 2008, AAS Meeting 211, Abstract #135.10 "
Recent Improvements to STIS Pipeline Calibration and Data Analysis Tools
Recent Improvements to STIS Pipeline Calibration and Data Analysis Tools Poster for AAS January 2008
STAN - October/November 2006
New reference files, echelle flux calibration improvements, updates to CALSTIS and much more.
Improvements to the Flux Calibration of the Echelle Spectroscopic Modes
Recently Revised STIS Calibration Reference Files
New Post-Analysis Tasks Available
Uniform Recalibration of All STIS Data
STAN - December 2005
Update on CALSTIS and Calibration Workshop news.
Updates to the STIS Calibration Software, Reference Files, and OTFR Pipeline Products
STAN - April 2005 (Supplemental Edition)
HST Calibration Workshop in October 2005
Changes to CALSTIS Software and STIS OTFR Products
Updates to STIS Spectroscopic Throughputs
Updates to MAMA Distortion Corrections
Updates to MAMA Distortion Corrections
STAN - October 2003
CALSTIS 2.15b release notes, new IHB, and much more.
Additions/updates to tasks STIS package
Additions/updates to STIS package tasks.
STAN - March 2003
Cycle 12 Phase 2 update for STIS and more
STAN - September 2002
New Calstis Release Notes and more
Correction of Errors in APD
Correction to errors in APD file
Incorrect Dark Subtraction
Incorrect dark subtraction for
early 2001 CCD data.
STAN - May 2002
New Target Acquisition checking procedure and much more.
How to Add 'propaper'
Instructions on how to add keyword
propaper to Starview search forms.
New version of daydark script
Updated version of daydark script now available.
New Target Acq. Checking Procedure
Targ. Acqs. no longer checked by OPUS. New Procedure in place.
STAN - March 2002
Invitation to the HST user community to provide suggestions for
additional STIS calibrations.
STAN - February 2002
Update G140L low order flats, and CALSTIS V2.12 & 2.12A Release Notes
STAN - December 2001
Cycle 11 Phase II Update for STIS
STAN - October 2001
Scaling Side-2 CCD Dark Frames with Temperature
STAN - September 2001
New echelle dispersion solution with new Calstis, and more.
STAN - July 2001
STIS is back, and more.
STAN - June 2001
STAN June 2001 with information re. the May STIS Safing, and
the error in corrected times using ODELAYTIME with de200.fits
Error in corrected times with odelaytime
The MJD in the header of de200.fits
is off by 0.5 days.
STAN - May 2001
Release of new On-the-fly-Reprocessing system.
STAN - March 2001
Errors in Processed TIME-TAG Data from STIS.
STAN - February 2001
Request for User input for Cycle 10 calibration /Determining an observation's actual orientation.
STAN - January 2001
Cycle 10 Phase II update.
STAN - September 2000
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs).
STAN - July 2000
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs).
STAN - June 2000
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs).
STAN - May 2000
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs).
STAN - July 1999
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs).
STAN - February 1999
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs).
STAN - December 1998
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs).
STAN - August 1998
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs).
STAN - June 1998
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs).
STAN - February 1998
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs).
STAN - November 1997
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs).
STAN - September 1997
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs).
STAN - July 1997
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs).
STAN - May 1997
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs).
STAN - April 1997
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs).
STAN - March 1997
STIS versions of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletters (STANs).