Megan L. Sosey - Homepage at STScI

Megan L. Sosey
Senior Data Analyst
Space Telescope Science Institute
3700 San Martin Drive
Baltimore MD 21218
(410) 338 - 4365

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NICMOS Group

View the White Paper which compairs NICMOS observations
with those from ground - based adaptive optics systems
(PS )
NICMOS is back for Cycle 11!
- Cycle 11 accepted GO proposals (ps)
- Updated information flyer (pdf)
- 2002 Calibration Workshop Poster (pdf )
  This poster describes available software tools and calibration pipeline updates
SMOV 3B - (STS-109)
- Current Shuttle Launch date: February 28, 6:58 am
- POSTPONED to March 1, 6:22 am
  -it was a beautiful launch!
- Proposal Planning
- Data Reduction:
  - DQE -see the ISR NICMOS ISR 2002-004
  - Cosmetics
  - Thermal Background - ISR Released! see NICMOS-ISR-2003-007
  - FOM test
NCS Era Information (post SM3B)
- Cosmic Ray Persistance and the SAA
- Updated Calibration reference files! See the NICMOS reference file webpage
  - New Temperature dependent dark coefficients - have been delivered
  - New flatfield images - now available in CDBS or from the archive
  - Linearity files - updated saturation image now in archive
  - Improved Readnoise files for all NICMOS data have been delivered
End Of Life activities (1998-1999) : initial lifetime Feb 1997 - Jan 1999
- Analysis and results of the NICMOS warm-up monitoring program (ISR 99-001,PDF file)
- Analysis of the dark current anomaly -- Results from the Arizona testing (PDF file)
Detector Cosmetics
- Calibration Reference Files
  - -> Updated Flat Field reference files, coming soon to a CDBS near you
- Characterization of "grot" (contains links to grot masks)
- New static Badpixel masks for PRE-NCS data
Web Tools
- SAA Passage tool - is your data likely to have cosmic ray persistence?
- Solar Elongation and Off Nominal Roll tool - I was pointed where?
- Testing of the NICMOS ETC with real data
Photometry
New photometric analysis for NCS-Era Datasets - in the works....

NEW analysis as of 2001 - PRE NCS
- Filter dependant Aperature corrections
- Red Star Analysis -> Out-of-band leaks
- Differential photometry and Photometric Stability
- Zeropoints and Photometric keywords
- AAS 2001 Poster

Science Projects

Search for some of the papers I've made contributions to using ADS
Work with Massimo Robberto on Mid-IR imaging of the Galactic Center
- Search for papers on the Galactic Center in ADS
Galaxy Clusters and Micro Lensing with Megan Donahue
- WFPC2 instrument homepage
- Drizzling homepage
SINGS data from NICMOS and ground based BVRIHa observations with Daniela Calzetti
Reduction and photometric catalogs for the UDF NICMOS parallel fields
Crowded Field photometry and analysis for the Galactic Bulge Deep Field (GBDF)

Other Science

Visit the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey
White Dwarf Database at LPL in Tucson
Cool stuff at Steward Observatory
Danny does really cool work with galexy evolution

Last modified: May 10 2005