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| WFPC2
| STScI Analysis Newsletter
| WFPC2 STAN 54
| April 2003
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CONTENTS:
- Cycle 12 Phase II Proposals
- WFPC2 Filter Wavelengths in the Archive
- Instrument Science Reports Since The Previous STAN:
03-01 WFPC2 Cycle 9 Closure Report
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Cycle 12 Phase II Proposals
-Inge Heyer and James Rhoads
The Cycle 12 Phase II deadline is May 16, 2003. Documents to
help observers in the preparation of the Phase II proposals
are available on our website.
One notable change for Cycle 12 is the introduction of the
APT proposal preparation tool for Phase II, which will be
the default tool as of Cycle 12. Training videos, manuals,
and other information regarding APT are available at
http://www.stsci.edu/hst/proposing/apt.
WFPC2 Filter Wavelengths in the Archive
-Anton Koekemoer and Gabriel Brammer
The HST Archive / CDBS catalog contains a number of different
quantities that characterize the properties of each filter in
the WFPC2 filter set. These quantities include the "Central
Wavelength", which appears as a default output column in
archive searches, as well as the "Pivot Wavelength" and other
related quantities that are used to calculate photometric
keywords such as PHOTFLAM, which can be used to define the
zeropoints for WFPC2 photometry. The "Central Wavelength"
values have been unchanged since the launch of WFPC2. They are
not used to calculate any other quantities, yet have always
appeared as a default output column in archive searches. On
the other hand, quantities such as the Pivot Wavelength are
better defined and are also regularly updated whenever there
are changes to the system throughput tables in Synphot. There
have also been a few discrepancies between Central Wavelength
and other, more up-to-date quantities, which have on occasion
led to confusion. Therefore, the WFPC2 group, in conjunction
with personnel in charge of CDBS, have chosen to replace the
use of "Central Wavelength" with the use of "Pivot Wavelength".
The only effect that this will have is that, when archive
searches are performed, the wavelengths listed for filters will
now reflect the Pivot Wavelength. No other quantities are
affected by this change; in particular, photometric keywords
within the WFPC2 dataset headers will remain unchanged, since
they are already consistent with the Pivot Wavelength and other
regularly updated filter quantities. More details on this,
including a table comparing the old Central Wavelength with the
up-to-date Pivot Wavelength values for each filter, are
available at the WFPC2 Website.
WFPC2 Cycle 9 Closure Report
-A. M. Koekemoer, S. Baggett, S. Casertano, S. Gonzaga, I. Heyer,
and the WFPC2 Group
This report describes in detail the WFPC2 observations used
to maintain and improve the quality of WFPC2 calibrations
during Cycle 9, and their status at completion of the Cycle.
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| Recent WFPC2-related Papers/Preprints
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We draw your attention to these papers, based on WF/PC and
WFPC2 data, that have appeared since the last STAN, or will
appear in the next few months. This list includes all
preprints received by the STScI Library not yet published
in the journals. Please remember to include our Library in
your preprint distribution list.
ANDERSON, J.; KING, I.R. "An Improved Distortion Solution
for the Hubble Space Telescope's WFPC2"
PASP 115: 113-131, 2003
APPLETON, P.N.; CHARMANDARIS, V.; GAO, Y.; JARRETT, T.;
BRANSFORD, M.A. "Azimuthal and Kinematic Segregation of
Neutral and Molecular Gas in Arp 118: The Yin-Yang Galaxy
NGC 1144" ApJ 586: 112-122, 2003
BARBA, R.H.; RUBIO, M.; ROTH, M.R.; GARCIA, J. "Active Star
Formation in the N11B Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud:
a Seqential Star Formation Scenario Confirmed"
AJ 125: 1940-1957, 2003
BAYER-KIM, C.M.; CRAWFORD, C.S.; ALLEN, S.W.; EDGE, A.C.;
FABIAN, A.C. "The Peculiar Cooling Flow Cluster RX J0820.9+0752"
MNRAS 337: 938-952, 2002
BIK, A.; LAMERS, H.J.G.L.M.; BASTIAN, N.; PANAGIA, N.;
ROMANIELLO, M. "Clusters in the Inner Spiral Arms of M 51:
the Cluster IMF and the Formation History"
A&A 397: 473-486, 2003
BOKER, T.; STANEK, R.; VAN DER MAREL, R.P. "Searching for
Bulges at the End of the Hubble Sequence"
AJ 125: 1073-1086, 2003
BURGASSER, A.J.; KIRKPATRICK, J.D.; REID, I.N.; BROWN, M.E.;
MISKEY, C.L.; GIZIS, J.E. "Binarity in Brown Dwarfs: T Dwarf
Binaries Discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide
Field Planetary Camera 2" ApJ 586: 512-526, 2003
BUTA, R.; MCCALL, M.L. "Maffei 1 with the Hubble Space
Telescope" AJ 125: 1150-1163, 2003
BUTA, R.J.; BYRD, G.G.; FREEMAN, T. "The Ringed Spiral
Galaxy NGC 4622. I. Photometry, Kinematics, and the Case for
Two Strong Leading Outer Spiral Arms" AJ 125: 634-666, 2003
BUTLER, R.F.; GOLDEN, A.; SHEARER, A. "Detection of New
Optical Counterpart Candidates to PSR B1951+32 with HST/WFPC2"
A&A 395: 845-851, 2002
CASTRO, S.; GALAMA, T.J.; HARRISON, F.A.; HOLTZMAN, J.A.;
BLOOM, J.S.; DJORGOVSKI, S.G.; KULKARNI, S.R. "Keck
Spectroscopy and Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of GRB
000926: Probing a Host Galaxy at z = 2.038"
ApJ 586: 128-134, 2003
CHEUNG, C.C. "Detection of Optical Synchrotron Emission
from the Radio Jet of 3C 279" ApJ 581: L15-L18, 2002
CHIABERGE, M.; CAPETTI, A.; CELOTTI, A. "Understanding the
Nature of FR II Optical Nuclei: a New Diagnostic Plane for
Radio Galaxies" A&A 394: 791-800, 2002
CHU, Y.-H.; CHEN, C.-H.R.; DANFORTH, C.; DUNNE, B.C.; GRUENDL,
R.A.; NAZE, Y.; OEY, M.S.; POINTS, S.D. "The Wind of the B[c]
Supergiant Henize S22 Viewed through a Reflection Nebula in
DEM L106" AJ 125: 2098-2107, 2003
COHEN, S.H.; WINDHORST, R.A.; ODEWAHN, S.C.; CHIARENZA, C.A.;
DRIVER, S.P. "The Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 B-band Parallel
Survey: a Study of Galaxy Morphology for Magnitudes 18 <= B <= 27"
AJ 125: 1762-1783, 2003
CORBIN, M.R.; VACCA, W.D. "POX 186: a Dwarf Galaxy in the
Process of Formation?" ApJ 581: 1039-1046, 2002
DE GRIJS, R.; BASTIAN, N.; LAMERS, H.J.G.L.M. "Star Cluster
Formation and Disruption Time-Scales -- II. Evolution of the
Star Cluster System in the Fossil Starburst of M82"
MNRAS 340: 197-209, 2003
DE GRIJS, R.; GILMORE, G.F.; MACKEY, A.D.; WILKINSON, M.I.;
BEAULIEU, S.F.; JOHNSON, R.A.; SANTIAGO, B.X. "Mass Segregation
in Young Compact Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud --
III. Implications for the Initial Mass Function"
MNRAS 337: 597-608, 2002
DE RUITER, H.R.; PARMA, P.; CAPETTI, A.; FANTI, R.;
MORGANTI, R. "HST Images of B2 Radio Galaxies: a Link
between Circum-nuclear Dust and Radio Properties?"
A&A 396: 857-866, 2002
DOLPHIN, A.E.; SAHA, A.; SKILLMAN, E.D.; DOHM-PALMER, R.C.;
TOLSTOY, E.; COLE, A.A.; GALLAGHER, J.S.; HOESSEL, J.G.;
MATEO, M. "Deep Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of Sextans A.
II. Cepheids and Distance" AJ 125: 1261-1290, 2003
DONAHUE, M.; DALY, R.A.; HORNER, D.J. "Constraints on the
Cluster Environments and Hot Spot Magnetic Field Strengths
of the Radio Sources 3C 280 and 3C 254" ApJ 584: 643-656, 2003
EVANS, A.S.; MAZZARELLA, J.M.; SURACE, J.A.; SANDERS, D.B.
"Molecular Gas and Nuclear Activity in Ultraluminous Infrared
Galaxies with Double Nuclei" ApJ 580: 749-762, 2002
FOSCHINI, L.; HO, L.C.; MASETTI, N.; CAPPI, M.; DADINA, M.;
BASSANI, L.; MALAGUTI, G.; PALAZZI, E.; DI COCCO, G.; MARTINI,
P.; RAVINFRANATH, S.; STEPHEN, J.B.; TRIFOGLIO, M.; mGIANOTTI,
F. "BL Lac Identification for the Ultraluminous X-ray Source
Observed in the Direction of NGC 4698" A&A 396: 787-792, 2002
FREED, M.; CLOSE, L.M.; SIEGLER, N. "Discovery of a Tight
Brown Dwarf Companion to the Low-Mass Star LHS 2397a"
ApJ 584: 453-458, 2003
FRENCH, R.G.; MCGHEE, C.A.; DONES, L.; LISSAUER, J.J.
"Saturn's Wayward Shepherds: the Peregrinations of Prometheus
and Pandora" Icarus 162: 143-170, 2003
GERSSEN, J.; VAN DER MAREL, R.P.; GEBHARDT, K.; GUHATHAKURTA, P.;
PETERSON, R.C.; PRYOR, C. "Addendum: Hubble Space Telescope
Evidence for an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in the Globular
Cluster M15. II. Kinematical Analysis and Dynamical Modeling"
AJ 125: 376-377, 2003
GONZALEZ, R.A.; LOINARD, L.; ALLEN, R.J.; MULLER, S. "The
Opacity of Nearby Galaxies from Counts of Background Galaxies.
II. Limits of the Synthetic Field Method" AJ 125: 1182-1203, 2003
HARDCASTLE, M.J.; BIRKINSHAW, M.; CAMERON, R.A.; HARRIS,
D.E.; LOONEY, L.W.; WORRALL, D.M. "Magnetic Field Strengths
in the Hotspots and Lobes of Three Powerful Fanaroff-Riley
Type II Radio Sources" ApJ 581: 948-973, 2002
JACKSON, N.; BESWICK, R.; PEDLAR, A.; COLE, G.H.; SPARKS, W.B.;
LEAHY, J.P.; AXON, D.J.; HOLLOWAY, A.J. "Observations of the
Neutral Gas and Dust in the Radio Galaxy 3C 305"
MNRAS 338: 643-654, 2003
JENSEN, E.L.N.; AKESON, R.L. "Protoplanetary Disk Mass
Distribution in Young Binaries" ApJ 584: 875-881, 2003
JORDAN, A.; WEST, M.J.; COTE, P.; MARZKE, R.O. "A Point-Source
Excess in Abell 1185: Intergalactic Globular Clusters?"
AJ 125: 1642-1648, 2003
KARACHENTSEV, I.D.; MAKAROV, D.I.; SHARINA, M.E.; DOLPHIN,
A.E.; GREBEL, E.K.; GEISLER, D.; GUHATHAKURTA, P.; HODGE,
P.W.; KARACHENTSEVA, V.E.; SARAJEDINI, A.; SEITZER, P.
"Local Galaxy Flows within 5 Mpc" A&A 398: 479-491, 2003
KARACHENTSEV, I.D.; SHARINA, M.E.; DOLPHIN, A.E.; GREBEL,
E.K.; GEISLER, D.; GUHATHAKURTA, P.; HODGE, P.W.;
KARACHENTSEVA, V.E.; SARAJEDINI, A.; SEITZER, P. "Galaxy Flow
in the Canes Venatici I Cloud" A&A 398: 467-477, 2003
KING, N.L.; NOTA, A.; WALSH, J.R.; PANAGIA, N.; GULL, T.R.;
PASQUALI, A.; CLAMPIN, M.; BERGERON, L.E. "A Hubble Space
Telescope Polarization Study of Dust in the eta Carinae
Homunculus" ApJ 581: 285-306, 2002
KOOPMANS, L.V.E.; TREU, T. "The Structure and Dynamics of
Luminous and Dark Matter in the Early-Type Lens Galaxy of
0047-281 at z = 0.485" ApJ 583: 606-615, 2003
LAINE, S.; VAN DER MAREL, R.P.; LAUER, T.R.; POSTMAN, M.;
O'DEA, C.P.; OWEN, F.N. "Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of
Brightest Cluster Galaxies" AJ 125: 478-505, 2003
LARSEN, S.S.; BRODIE, J.P.; BEASLEY, M.A.; FORBES, D.A.;
KISSLER-PATIG, M.; KUNTSCHNER, H.; PUZIA, T.H. "Evidence
for an Intermediate-Age, Metal-Rich Population of Globular
Clusters in NGC 4365" ApJ 585: 767-774, 2003
LIPARI, S.; TERLEVICH, R.; DIAZ, R.J.; TANIGUCHI, Y.;
ZHENG, W.; TSVETANOV, Z.; CARRANZA, G.; DOTTORI, H. "Extreme
Galactic Wind and Wolf-Rayet Features in Infrared Mergers
and Infrared Quasi-stellar Objects" MNRAS 340: 289-303, 2003
LIU, J.-F.; BREGMAN, J.N.; SEITZER, P. "The Optical
Counterpart of an Ultraluminous X-ray Object in M81"
ApJ 580: L31-L34, 2002
LIU, J.-F.; BREGMAN, J.N.; SEITZER, P. "A Scattered Light
Echo around SN 1993J in M81" ApJ 582: 919-923, 2003
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2003ApJ...582..919L
LUCAS, R.; BAUM, S.A.; BROWN, T.M.; CASERTANO, S.; CONSELICE,
C.; DE MELLO, D.; DICKINSON, M.E.; FERGUSON, H.C.; FRUCHTER,
A.S.; GARDNER, J.P.; GILMORE, D.; GONZALEZ-LOPEZLIRA, R.A.;
HEYER, I.; HOOK, R.N.; KAISER, M.E.; MACK, J.; MAKIDON, R.;
MARTIN, C.L.; MUTCHLER, M.; SMITH, T.E.; STIAVELLI, M.;
TEPLITZ, H.I.; WIGGS, M.S.; WILLIAMS, R.E.; ZUREK, D.R.
"The Hubble Deep Field South Flanking Fields"
AJ 125: 398-417, 2003
MACKEY, A.D.; GILMORE, G.F. "Surface Brightness Profiles
and Structural Parameters for 53 Rich Stellar Clusters in
the Large Magellanic Cloud" MNRAS 338: 85-119, 2003
MACKEY, A.D.; GILMORE, G.F. "Surface Brightness Profiles
and Structural Parameters for Globular Clusters in the
Fornax and Sagittarius Dwarf Speheroidal Galaxies"
MNRAS 340: 175-190, 2003
MAKAROVA, L.N.; GREBEL, E.K.; KARACHENTSEV, I.D.; DOLPHIN,
A.E.; KARACHENTSEVA, V.E.; SHARINA, M.E.; GEISLER, D.;
GUHATHAKURTA, P.; HODGE, P.W.; SARAJEDINI, A.; SEITZER, P.
"Tidal Dwarfs in the M81 Group: the Second Generation?"
A&A 396: 473-487, 2002
MIRABEL, I.F.; MIGNANI, R.; RODRIGUES, I.; COMBI, J.A.;
RODRIGUEZ, L.F.; GUGLIELMETTI, F. "The Runaway Black Hole
GRO J1655-40" A&A 395: 595-599, 2002
MOISEEV, A.V. "Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy of Double-Barred
Galaxies" Astron. Lett. 28: 755-768, 2002
MORALES-JUBERIAS, R.; SANCHEZ-LAVEGA, A.; LECACHEUX, J.;
COLAS, F. "A Comparative Study of Jovian Cyclonic Features
from a Six-Year (1994-2000) Survey" Icarus 160: 325-335, 2002
NATARAJAN, P.; KNEIB, J.-P.; SMAIL, I. "Evidence for Tidal
Stripping of Dark Matter Halos in Massive Cluster Lenses"
ApJ 580: L11-L15, 2002
NAZE, Y.; HARTWELL, J.M.; STEVENS, I.R.; CORCORAN, M.F.;
CHU, Y.-H.; KOENIGSBERGER, G.; MOFFAT, A.F.J.; NIEMELA, V.S.
"An X-ray Investigation of the NGC 346 Field in the Small
Magellanic Cloud. I. The Luminous Blue Variable HD 5980 and
the NGC 346 Cluster" ApJ 580: 225-234, 2002
NISHIURA, S.; SHIOYA, Y.; MURAYAMA, T.; SATO, Y.; NAGAO, T.;
TANIGUCHI, Y.; SANDERS, D.B. "A Multi-band Photometric Study
of Tidal Debris in a Compact Group of Galaxies: Seyfert's
Sextet" PASJ 54: 21-32, 2002
O'DELL, C.R.; DOI, T. "High Proper Motion Features in the
Central Orion Nebula" AJ 125: 277-287, 2003
O'DOWD, M.; URRY, C.M.; SCARPA, R. "The Host Galaxies of
Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei: the Black Hole-Galaxy
Connection" ApJ 580: 96-103, 2002
OROSZ, J.A.; VAN KERKWIJK, M.H. "The Eclipsing Millisecond
Pulsar PSR J1740-5340 and Its Red Straggler Companion"
A&A 397: 237-247, 2003
PARMA, P.; DE RUITER, H.R.; CAPETTI, A.; FANTI, R.; MORGANTI,
R.; BONDI, M.; LAING, R.A.; CANVIN, J.R. "The HST Survey of
the B2 Sample of Radio Galaxies: Detection of Two Optical Jets"
A&A 397: 127-131, 2003
PRICE, P.A.; KULKARNI, S.R.; SCHMIDT, B.P.; GALAMA, T.J.;
BLOOM, J.S.; BERGER, E.; FRAIL, D.A.; DJORGOVSKI, S.G.;
FOX, D.W.; HENDEN, A.A.; KLOSE, S.; HARRISON, F.A.;
REICHART, D.E.; SARI, R.; YOST, S.; AXELROD, T.S.;
MCCARTHY, P.; HOLTZMAN, J.; HALPERN, J.P.; KIMBLE, R.A.;
WHEELER, J.C.; CHEVALIER, R.A.; HURLEY, K.; RICKER, G.R.;
COSTA, E.; FRONTERA, F.; PIRO, L. "GRB 010921: Strong Limits
on an Underlying Supernova from the Hubble Space Telescope"
ApJ 584: 931-936, 2003
PULONE, L.; DE MARCHI, G.; COVINO, S.; PARESCE, F. "HST
Observations of the Metal Rich Globular Clusters NGC 6496
and NGC 6352" A&A 399: 121-131, 2003
SAHAI, R.; ZIJLSTRA, A.; SANCHEZ CONTRERAS, C.; MORRIS, M.
"An Icy, Bipolar Proto-planetary Nebula with Knotty Jets:
IRAS 22036+5306" ApJ 586: L81-L85, 2003
SANCHEZ-LAVEGA, A.; PEREZ-HOYOS, S.; ACARRETA, J.R.; FRENCH,
R.G. "No Hexagonal Wave Around Saturn's Southern Pole"
Icarus 160: 216-219, 2002
SLUSE, D.; SURDEJ, J.; CLAESKENS, J.-F.; DE ROP, Y.; LEE,
D.W.; IOVINO, A.; HAWKINS, M.R.S. "Close Pairs of Quasars
with Different Redshifts: New Observsations and Results"
A&A 397: 539-544, 2003
SMAIL, I.; IVISON, R.J.; GILBANK, D.G.; DUNLOP, J.S.; KEEL,
W.C.; MOTOHARA, K.; STEVENS, J.A. "A SCUBA Galaxy in the
Protocluster around 53W002 at z = 2.4" ApJ 583: 551-558, 2003
SPECK, A.K.; MEIXNER, M.; JACOBY, G.H.; KNEZEK, P.M.
"Molecular Hydrogen in the Ring Nebula: Clumpy
Photodissociation Regions" PASP 115: 170-177, 2003
SUGERMAN, B.E.K.; CROTTS, A.P.S. "Multiple Light Echoes from
SN 1993J" ApJ 581: L97-L100, 2002
SURPI, G.; BLANDFORD, R.D. "The Gravitational Lens B1608+656.
I. V-, I-, and H-band Hubble Space Telescope Imaigng"
ApJ 584: 100-109, 2003
THOMPSON, R.I. "Matching the Observed Star Formation Intensity
Distribution with Empirical Laws" ApJ 581: L85-L88, 2002
TREU, T.; KOOPMANS, L.V.E. "The Internal Structure of the
Lens PG 1115+080: Breaking Degeneracies in the Value of the
Hubble Constant" MNRAS 337: L6-L10, 2002
VAN DOKKUM, P.G.; STANFORD, S.A. "The Fundamental Plane at
z = 1.27: First Calibration of the Mass Scale of Red Galaxies
at Redshifts z > 1" ApJ 585: 78-89, 2003
VAN DYK, S.D.; LI, W.; FILIPPENKO, A.V. "A Search for
Core-Collapse Supernova Progenitors in Hubble Space Telescope
Images" PASP 115: 1-20, 2003 addendum: PASP 115: 21, 2003
WEIS, K.; DUSCHL, W.J.; BOMANS, D.J. "An Outflow from the
Nebula Around the LBV Candidate S 119" A&A 398: 1041-1048, 2003
WERNLI, F.; EMSELLEM, E.; COPIN, Y. "A 60 pc Counter-Rotating
Core in NGC 4621" A&A 396: 73-81, 2002
WYSE, R.F.G.; GILMORE, G.; HOUDASHELT, M.L.; FELTZING, S.;
HEBB, L.; GALLAGHER, J.S. III; SMECKER-HANE, T.A. "Faint Stars
in the Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy: Implications for the
Low-Mass Stellar Initial Mass Function at High Redshift"
NewA 7: 395-433, 2002
YAN, L.; THOMPSON, D. "Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2
Morphologies of K-selected Extremely Red Galaxies"
ApJ 586: 765-779, 2003
ZIRM, A.W.; DICKINSON, M.; DAY, A. "Massive Elliptical
Galaxies at High Redshift: NICMOS Imaging of z ~= 1 Radio
Galaxies" ApJ 585: 90-111, 2003
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