WFC3 Instrument Handbook December 2012 Wide Field Camera 3 Instrument Handbook for Cycle 21 User Support For prompt answers to any question, please contact the STScI Help Desk. • E-mail: help@stsci.edu • Phone: (410) 338-1082(800) 544-8125 (U.S., toll free) World Wide Web Information and other resources are available on the WFC3 World Wide Web site at STScI: http://www.stsci.edu/hst/wfc3 WFC3 Instrument Handbook Revision History Version Date Editors 5.0 December 2012 Linda Dressel 4.0 December 2011 Linda Dressel 3.0 December 2010 Linda Dressel 2.1 June 25, 2010 Linda Dressel, Michael H. Wong, Cheryl Pavlovsky, Knox S. Long 2.0 January 2010 Michael H. Wong, Cheryl Pavlovsky, Knox S. Long 1.0 December 2007 Howard E. Bond and Jessica Kim Quijano Contributors: Bruce Balick, Sylvia Baggett, John Biretta, Howard Bond, Ray Boucarut, Tom Brown, Howard Bushouse, Nicholas Collins, Colin Cox, Tomas Dahlen, Ilana Dashevsky, Tiffany Davis, Susana Deustua, Linda Dressel, Michael Dulude, Mauro Giavalisco, Ron Gilliland, George Hartig, Bryan Hilbert, Robert J. Hill, Jason Kalirai, Diane Karakla, Jessica Kim Quijano, Randy Kimble, Martin Kümmel, Harald Kuntschner, Janice Lee, Matt Lallo, Knox Long, Olivia Lupie, Brian McLean, Peter McCullough, Jennifer Mack, John MacKenty, Eliot Malumuth, André Martel, Cheryl Pavlovsky, Larry Petro, Nor Pirzkal, Vera Kozhurina-Platais, Elizabeth Polidan, Manuel Quijada, Abhijith Rajan, Neill Reid, Adam Riess, Massimo Robberto, Barry Rothberg, Elena Sabbi, Massimo Stiavelli, Randal Telfer, Alex Viana, Nolan Walborn, Jeremy Walsh, Allen Welty, Tom Wheeler, and Mike Wong. Citation: In publications, refer to this document as: Dressel, L., 2012. “Wide Field Camera 3 Instrument Handbook, Version 5.0” (Baltimore: STScI)