0 Assigned ID: 659 ----- Attempting Submission 1 (Fri Apr 11 18:25:40 GMT 2014) ----- HST Phase I Proposal 659 (phase1.apt) successfully submitted. ----- Attempting Submission 2 (Fri Apr 11 19:07:45 GMT 2014) ----- The Cosmic Origin Spectrograph (COS) and Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) have been advancing astronomy with high quality spectroscopic products for years, and in the case of STIS, more than a decade. Though already incredibly productive, there remains an untapped potential of discovery in the data of these instruments. Due to their detector designs, both of these instruments can operate in a mode where each indivudal photon's arrival time is recorded and saved. Though this TIME-TAG ability is typically utilized to provide second-by-second calibrations to the final spectral data, this mode can also be exploited to re-examine the data in the time domain, turning spectra into lightcurves. With the appropriate knowledge and software, the time-resolved spectra can instead be extracted into photometric lightcurves with high temporal and spectral resolution. We propose here to expand our current software tool into a community-ready pipeline and to deliver a collection of high-level science lightcurves for the entire COS and STIS TIME-TAG archives. By providing this tool and data archive to the community we will lower the barrier to time domain research with these two instruments. This will demonstrate to the community not only the potential contained in re-analysis of existing datasets, but also the exquisite time-series capabilities of the instruments available for future cycles. The enabling and demonstration of this so far underutilized technique should be done now. At a time when HST and its UV capabilities are nearing their end, it's vital that all possible avenues for exploration are made readily available to the scientific community. HOT STARS Default Legacy false true true false false SUPPORTED