This JWebbinar will focus on the Exposure Time Calculator (ETC), one of the possible entry points when constructing a JWST proposal. The ETC provides many options that contemporary calculators do not, which can be both helpful and daunting. The purpose of this JWebbinar is to first walk through ETC usage linearly to obtain results for a straightforward observation of a point source, followed by the inclusion of more advanced ETC features for more complex observations. These advanced features are "modular" in the sense that multiple, or only one, can be used for any given ETC calculation, so the various options will first be presented separately, then combined to represent real use cases.

An additional session was held on September 22, 2023.

Materials and Videos

Link to presentation: Introduction

Links to videos:

1. Overview of ETC
2. Detectors and the ETC
3. Using the ETC
4. Expanding the ETC Scene