Calibration Reference Files

A complete list of all WFPC2 Reference Files for recalibrating WFPC2 data.

Alternate Reference Files generated by the WFPC2 IDT, are available in the STScI Archive.

The complete list of WFPC2 Warm Pixels.

The warm pixel lists formatted for use with the STSDAS task WARMPIX.

Creating WFPC2 Darks describes how WFPC2 darks are made. Includes downloads for users to generate darks.

The WFPC2 Geometric Distortion correction files (f1k1552bu.r9h (text), f1k1552bu.r9d (binary)) can be found in the WFPC2 Photometry directory.

A paper on "An Improved Distortion Solution for HST's WFPC2" by Jay Anderson and Ivan King is available as a preprint (PostScript, 4.4MB). There is also a text file containing a Fortran routine that implements the Geometric Distortion solution.