1997 HST Calibration Workshop

Accordion

• Daily Schedule

  Date	Event	Time
  Sunday, September 21, 1997	Registration, Reception	7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  Monday, September 22, 1997	Workshop	8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
  Tuesday, September 23, 1997	Workshop	9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

   

  Please see the Workshop Agenda for a full breakdown of the sessions.

• STIS Proceedings (1)

  Speakers: S. A. Baum    
  Title: STIS Overview; Capabilities and Basic Operations

  Speakers: Randy A. Kimble    
  Title: The On-Orbit Performance of the STIS Detectors

  Speakers: Charles W. Bowers    
  Title: The On-Orbit Optical Performance of STIS

  Speakers: Mary Elizabeth Kaiser, Don J. Lindler and Ralph C. Bohlin    
  Title: The Flat Fielding and Achievable Signal-to-Noise of the MAMA Detectors

  Speakers: Steve Kraemer, Ron Downes, Rocio Katsanis, Mike Crenshaw, Melissa McGrath and Rich Robinson    
  Title: STIS Target Acquisition

  Speakers: S. J. Hulbert and P. E. Hodge    
  Title: The STIS Calibration Pipeline

  Speakers: Paul Goudfrooij, Stefi A. Baum, Henry C. Ferguson, Jeffrey J. E. Hayes, Steve J. Hulbert, Claus Leitherer, Melissa A. McGrath, Kailash C. Sahu and Richard A. Shaw    
  Title: The Cycle 7 Calibration Plan for STIS

  Speakers: Bruce E. Woodgate    
  Title: STIS Capabilities: Current and future implementation

  Speakers: T. Beck and W. Landsman    
  Title: STIS CCD Hot Pixel Annealing

  Speakers: G. A. Bower, R. F. Green, D. Lindler, et al.    
  Title: STIS Observations of the Nuclear Ionized Gas in the Elliptical Galaxy M84

• STIS Proceedings (2)

  Speakers: Nicholas Collins and Ralph Bohlin    
  Title: STIS First-Order Low-Resolution Mode Point-Source Sensitivity Curves

  Speakers: R. H. Cornett, A. Grusczak, C. Ftaclas, S. R. Heap and B. E. Woodgate    
  Title: Simulations of the STIS CCD Clear Imaging Mode PSF

  Speakers: H. Ferguson    
  Title: A Test of the STIS CCD Flatfielding Accuracy on Small Scales

  Speakers: Jonathan P. Gardner    
  Title: The STIS Parallel Survey: Introduction and First Results

  Speakers: Paul Goudfrooij, Stefi A. Baum and Jeremy R. Walsh    
  Title: Fringe Correction for STIS Near-IR Long-Slit Spectra using Contemporaneous Tungsten Flat Fields

  Speakers: Theodore R. Gull, Mary Jane Taylor, Richard Shaw, Richard Robinson and Robert S. Hill    
  Title: Thermal Motion of the STIS Optical Bench

  Speakers: Sara R. Heap and Thomas M. Brown    
  Title: Correction for the STIS Echelle Blaze Function

  Speakers: Robert S. Hill, Wayne B. Landsman, Don Lindler and Richard Shaw    
  Title: Cosmic Ray and Hot Pixel Removal from STIS CCD Images

  Speakers: Charles L. Joseph    
  Title: Laboratory Test Data on the Stability of the STIS MAMAs

  Speakers: W. Landsman and C. Bowers    
  Title: Scattered Light in the STIS Echelle Modes

• STIS Proceedings (3)

  Speakers: Don J. Lindler, Theodore R. Gull, Steven B. Kraemer and Stephen J. Hulbert    
  Title: Analysis of STIS Time-Tag Data

  Speakers: Eliot M. Malumuth and Charles W. Bowers    
  Title: Determination of Geometric Distortion in STIS Images

  Speakers: Philip Plait and Ralph Bohlin    
  Title: Fringe Science: Creating a STIS CCD Fringe Flat Field

  Speaker: J. R. Walsh    
  Title: Extraction of Point Source Spectra from STIS Long Slit Data

• NICMOS Proceedings (1)

  Speaker: Rodger I. Thompson    
  Title: NICMOS Status and Plans

  Speakers: C. J. Skinner, L. E. Bergeron and D. Daou    
  Title: Characteristics of the NICMOS Detectors

  Speakers: L. Colina and M.J. Rieke    
  Title: The Photometric Performance of NICMOS

  Speakers: John E. Krist and Richard N. Hook    
  Title: NICMOS PSF Variations and Tiny Tim Simulations

  Speakers: Susan R. Stolovy    
  Title: Narrow-Band Emission Line Imaging with NICMOS:

  Speakers: Wolfram Freudling    
  Title: The NICMOS Grism Mode

  Speakers: D. C. Hines, G. D. Schmidt and Dyer Lytle    
  Title: The Polarimetric Capabilities of NICMOS

  Speakers: Howard Bushouse    
  Title: The NICMOS CALNICA and CALNICB Pipelines

  Speakers: C. J. Skinner    
  Title: Improving on the NICMOS Calibration Pipeline Products

  Speakers: L. E. Bergeron and C. J. Skinner    
  Title: Understanding the NICMOS Darks

• NICMOS Proceedings (2)

  Speakers: Ivo C. Busko    
  Title: NICMOS Data Processing Software in STSDAS

  Speakers: Daniela Calzetti    
  Title: NICMOS Sensitivity to Cosmic Rays

  Speakers: Daniela Calzetti and Howard Bushouse    
  Title: The NICMOS Data Handbook

  Speakers: Luis Colina and Alex Storrs    
  Title: NICMOS Cycle7 Calibration Plan and Beyond

  Speakers: Doris Daou and C. J. Skinner    
  Title: Persistence in NICMOS:

  Speakers: Doris Daou, C. J. Skinner and David Axon    
  Title: NICMOS Pointed Thermal Background:

  Speakers: John E. Krist    
  Title: Subtraction of Well-Exposed NICMOS 2 PSFs

  Speakers: D. Lytle, E. Stobie, A. Ferro, I. Barg    
  Title: NICMOS File Formats

  Speakers: Brian A. McLeod    
  Title: NICRED: Reduction of NICMOS MULTIACCUM Data with IRAF

  Speakers: C. Ritchie, H. Bushouse, L. Colina, D. Calzetti, C. Skinner, A. Storrs    
  Title: NICMOS Data Quality Control and Paper Products

• NICMOS Proceedings (3)

  Speakers: E. Stobie, D. Lytle, A. Ferro, I. Barg    
  Title: Software Tools for NICMOS

  Speakers: Alex Storrs    
  Title: Making Maps and Mosaics

  Speakers: A. A. Suchkov, L. Bergeron and G. G. Galas    
  Title: Long-Term and Short-Term Variations of NICMOS Foci

• WFPC2 Proceedings (1)

  Speaker: B. C. Whitmore    
  Title: WFPC2 Status and Overview

  Speaker: Stefano Casertano    
  Title: WFPC2 Photometric Calibration

  Speakers: G. Dudziak and J. R. Walsh    
  Title: WFPC2 Calibration for Emission Line Images

  Speakers: P. Linde, A. Ardeberg, T. Bensby and R. Snel    
  Title: HST, uvby Photometry and System Calibration

  Speakers: A. Micol, P. Bristow and B. Pirenne    
  Title: Associations of WFPC2 Exposures

  Speakers: Max Mutchler and Andrew Fruchter    
  Title: Drizzling Dithered WFPC2 Images-A Demonstration

  Speakers: Kavan U. Ratnatunga, Eric J. Ostrander and Richard E. Griffiths    
  Title: Calibrating the WFPC2 Astrometry for MDS

  Speakers: M. Remy, J.-F. Claeskens and J. Surdej    
  Title: HST Observations of the Gravitational Lens Systems HE 1104-1805 and J03.13

  Speakers: M. Remy, J. Surdej, S. Baggett and M. Wiggs    
  Title: WFPC2 Photometry from Subtraction of TinyTim PSFs

  Speakers: A. Suchkov and S. Casertano    
  Title: Aperture Corrections for WFPC2 Stellar Photometry
   

• WFPC2 Proceedings (2)

  Speakers: J. Surdej, S. Baggett, M. Remy and M. Wiggs    
  Title: WFPC2 Photometry from Subtraction of Observed PSFs

  Speakers: Michael S. Wiggs, Sylvia Baggett, Jean Surdej and Calvin Tullos    
  Title: The WFPC2 PSF Library

  Speakers: Michael S. Wiggs, Brad Whitmore and Inge Heyer    
  Title: The WFPC2 Clearinghouse

  Speaker: R. Jedrzejewski    
  Title: FOC Status and Overview

  Speakers: R. Jedrzejewski and M. Voit    
  Title: F/48 Slit Spectroscopy

  Speaker: Tony Keyes    
  Title: The Closeout State of the FOS

  Speakers: Anuradha Koratkar and Ian Evans    
  Title: Average Inverse Sensitivity Recalibration of Pre-COSTAR Faint Object Spectrograph Data and Comparison with International Ultraviolet Explorer Data

  Speakers: Jeffrey J.E. Hayes and Charles D. (Tony) Keyes    
  Title: Estimating Scattered Light in the FOS

  Speakers: Roeland P. van der Marel    
  Title: The HST/FOS Wavelength Scale

  Speakers: Ed Nelan, Olivia Lupie and Lauretta Nagel    
  Title: Astrometry with the FGS in POSITION Mode and TRANSFER Mode: Observing Strategies, Pipeline Processing and Data 
   

• WFPC2 Proceedings (3)

  Speakers: Olivia Lupie, Ed Nelan and Lauretta Nagel    
  Title: FGS1R: Potentially HST's Astrometry Science Workhorse

  Speakers: B. McArthur, G. F. Benedict, W. H. Jefferys and E. Nelan    
  Title: Maintaining the FGS3 Optical Field Angle Distortion Calibration

  Speakers: R. Kuschnig, W. W. Weiss and K. Zwintz    
  Title: Stability of FGS Photometry

  Speakers: David R. Soderblom and Lisa E. Sherbert    
  Title: The Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph

  Speaker: L. E. Sherbert    
  Title: GHRS Calibration Changes since February 1997
  SOFTWARE

  Speaker: P. Greenfield    
  Title: The New HST FITS Format, the FITS Kernel and OpenIRAF

  Speaker: Stephen Lubow    
  Title: New Calibration Systems Projects at STScI

  Speakers: A. S. Fruchter, R. N. Hook, I. C. Busko and M. Mutchler    
  Title: A Package for the Reduction of Dithered Undersampled Images

  Speakers: Nailong Wu and John Caldwell    
  Title: Deconvolution of Substepped 1-D and 2-D HST Data

  Speakers: M. R. Rosa and P. Ballester
  Title: Calibrating Echelle Spectra using Instrument Models

• General Poster Presentations

  Speaker: John Caldwell    
  Title: Deconvolution of Sub-stepped 1-D and 2-D HST Data

  Speaker: Brian Espey    
  Title: New and Improved FUV/UV Emission Line Diagnostics

  Speakers: Michael Rosa and Pascal Ballester    
  Title: Calibration of Echelle Data using Models

• FOS Poster Presentation

  Speaker: Jeffrey Hayes    
  Title: Estimating Scattered Light in the FOS

• FGS Poster Presentation

  Speaker: Rainer Kuschnig    
  Title: Time-stabilty of the HST-Fine Guidance Sensors Photometry

• GHRS Poster Presentation

  Speaker: Lisa E. Sherbert    
  Title: GHRS Calibration Changes since February 1997

• NICMOS Splinter Session Poster Presentations

  Speaker: Elizabeth Stobie    
  Title: File Formats

  Speaker: Howard Bushouse    
  Title: CALNICA/CALNICB

  Speaker: Chris Skinner    
  Title: Improving on the Pipeline products

• NICMOS Poster Presentations (1)

  Speaker: Eddie Bergeron    
  Title: Understanding the NICMOS Darks

  Speaker: Ivo Busko    
  Title: STSDAS Software Tools for NICMOS

  Speaker: Daniela Calzetti    
  Title: Cosmic Ray sensitivity of NICMOS

  Speaker: Daniela Calzetti    
  Title: The Data Handbook

  Speaker: Luis Colina    
  Title: The Cycle 7+ Calibration Plan

  Speakers: Doris Daou, David Axon, Chris Skinner    
  Title: NICMOS Pointed Thermal Background: Results from On-Orbit Data

  Speakers: Doris Daou, Chris Skinner    
  Title: Persistence in NICMOS: Results from On-Orbit Data

  Speaker: John Krist    Nicmos 
  Title: PSF Subtraction

  Speaker: Dyer Lytle    
  Title: NICMOS File Formats - the details

  Speaker: Brian McLeod    
  Title: Reduction of NICMOS Multiaccum Data

• NICMOS Poster Presentations (2)

  Speaker: Christine Ritchie    
  Title: Data Quality Control and Paper Products

  Speaker: Elizabeth Stobie    
  Title: IDL Software Tools for NICMOS

  Speaker: Alex Storrs    
  Title: Making Mosaics and Maps

  Speaker: Anatoly Suchkov    
  Title: Long term and short term variations of NICMOS camera foci

• STIS Poster Presentations (1)

  Speaker: Terry Beck    
  Title: STIS CCD Hot Pixel Annealing

  Speaker: Gary Bower    
  Title: STIS Observations of the Galaxy M84

  Speaker: Nicholas Collins    
  Title: STIS First Order Low Resolution Mode Sensitivity Curves

  Speakers: R.H. Cornett, A. Grusczak, C. Ftaclas, S.R. Heap, and B.E. Woodgate    
  Title: Simulations of the STIS CCD Clear Imaging Mode

  Speaker: Jonathan P. Gardner    
  Title: The STIS Parallel Survey

  Speaker: Theodore R. Gull    
  Title: Thermal Motion of STIS Optical Bench

  Speaker: Sara R. Heap    
  Title: Reduction of STIS Echelle Spectra

  Speaker: Robert S. Hill    
  Title: Cosmic Ray and Hot Pixel Removal from STIS CCD Images

  Speaker: Charles L. Joseph    
  Title: Laboratory Test Data on the Stability of the STIS MAMAs

  Speaker: Wayne Landsman    
  Title: Scattered Light Characterization of the STIS echelles

• STIS Poster Presentations (2)

  Speaker: Don J. Lindler    
  Title: Analysis of STIS Time-tagged Data

  Speaker: Eliot M. Malumuth    
  Title: Determination of the Geometric Distortion in STIS images

  Speaker: Philip Plait    
  Title: Flat Fielding of STIS CCD Fringing

  Speaker: Jeremy R. Walsh    
  Title: Extraction of Point Source Spectra from STIS Long Slit Data
   

• WFPC2 Poster Presentations (1)

  Speakers: G. Dudziak and J. Walsh    
  Title: WFPC2 calibration for emission line images

  Speakers: P. Linde, A. Ardeberg, T. Bensby, and R. Snel    
  Title: HST, uvby photometry and system calibration

  Speaker: Alberto Micol    
  Title: Associations of WFPC2 exposures

  Speaker: Max Mutchler    
  Title: Drizzling dithered WFPC2 images -- a demonstration

  Speaker: Kavan Ratnatunga    
  Title: Calibrating the WFPC2 pointing

  Speakers: M. Remy, J. Surdej, S. Baggett, M. Wiggs    
  Title: WFPC2 photometry via subtraction of TinyTim PSFs

  Speakers: M. Remy, J.-F. Claeskens, and J. Surdej    
  Title: PC Imaging of the gravitational lens systems J03.13 and HE1104-1805

  Speakers: A. Suchkov and S. Casertano    
  Title: WFPC2 Aperture Corrections

  Speakers: J. Surdej, S. Baggett, M. Remy, and M. Wiggs    
  Title: WFPC2 Photometry from Subtraction of Observed PSFs

  Speakers: M. Wiggs, S. Baggett, J. Surdej, and C. Tullos    
  Title: The WFPC2 PSf Library

• WFPC2 Poster Presentations (2)

  Speakers: M. Wiggs, B. Whitmore, and I. Heyer    
  Title: The WFPC2 Clearinghouse

• Organizing Committee

  The proceedings will be edited by Stefano Casertano, Robert Jedrzejewski, and Tony Keyes.

  The Organizing Committee for the 1997 HST Calibration Workshop consists of (affiliation is STScI unless otherwise noted):

  • David Axon
  • Stefano Casertano (chair)
  • Wolfram Freudling (ST-ECF)
  • Ron Gilliland
  • Robert Jedrzejewski
  • Helmut Jenkner
  • Tony Keyes
  • Anuradha Koratkar
  • Melissa McGrath
  • Tawanta Nance
  • Michael Rosa (ST-ECF)
  • David Soderblom