Tools and Status
ACS

The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) is a third-generation Hubble Space Telescope (HST) instrument installed in March 2002 during HST Servicing Mission 3B. The ACS CCD Electronics Box and Low Voltage Power Supply incrementally failed in June 2006 and January 2007, causing the loss of the ACS Wide Field Channel (WFC) and High Resolution Channel (HRC).
The replacement components (CEB-R and LVPS-R) installed on 16 May 2009 during HST Servicing Mission 4 (SM4), successfully restored the function of the WFC but not that of the HRC. Consequently, only the WFC and the Solar Blind Channel (SBC) are available to observers.
Current Status
HRC is not operational.
SBC is operating nominally.
WFC is operating nominally.
Program Information
ACS Instrument Resources
Recent News
Recently Published ISRs
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November 10, 2023G. S. Anand et al.
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(ACS ISR 2023-04) Dithering for ACS and WFC3 Primes and Parallels
October 18, 2023J. Anderson and N. A. Grogin -
(ACS ISR 2023-05) HSTaXe - ACS & WFC3 Cookbook Tutorials
September 19, 2023B. Kuhn et al. -
(ACS ISR 2023-03) Measuring the Column Dependence of Read Noise in ACS/WFC Bias Frames
June 22, 2023A. M. Guzman and M. C. McDonald -
(ACS ISR 2023-02) Systematic Effects in ACS/WFC Absolute Gain Measurements
March 27, 2023G. S. Anand et al.
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ACS Software Updates
ACSTOOLS
v3.6.1
- Released May 23, 2023
- Update to the skimage.morphology.remove_small_objects() function in satdet.py
- Documentation updates
v3.6.0
- Released May 8, 2023
- Update ISR name and link for CTE model for acsphotcte
- Incorporate findsat_mrt into acstools
- Documentation updates
HSTCAL v2.7.4
- Released on February 08, 2022
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CALACS updated to Version 10.3.5