1997 HST Calibration Workshop
Location
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
3700 San Martin Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218
Description
The Second Servicing Mission brought about major changes for the HST as the new Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) replace the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) and Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), and the Fine Guidance Sensors were upgraded. The Third HST Calibration Workshop will capture the impact of these changes and explore the new capabilities that they bring to the HST user community.
This meeting provides a forum to wrap up outstanding calibration issues for the FOS and GHRS as they enter their archival phase. It is also an opportunity to present major results from the new instruments during the Servicing Mission Observatory Verification (SMOV) phase, providing the first performance measurements. New calibrations and observing and data reduction techniques will be presented for the continuing instruments: the Faint Object Camera (FOC) and Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2).
The workshop will be held over three full days at STScI, and will include invited talks, contributed posters, and splinter sessions for more detailed technical discussions. Proceedings of the workshop will be published before the end of 1997.
Accordion
| 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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Speaker: Jeffrey Hayes
Title: Estimating Scattered Light in the FOS
Speaker: Rainer Kuschnig
Title: Time-stabilty of the HST-Fine Guidance Sensors Photometry
Speaker: Lisa E. Sherbert
Title: GHRS Calibration Changes since February 1997
Speaker: Elizabeth Stobie
Title: File Formats
Speaker: Howard Bushouse
Title: CALNICA/CALNICB
Speaker: Chris Skinner
Title: Improving on the Pipeline products
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
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
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
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
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
Speakers: M. Wiggs, B. Whitmore, and I. Heyer
Title: The WFPC2 Clearinghouse
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