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Abell 370
Abell 370 is a massive galaxy cluster in the middle of a field of almost 8,000 galaxies

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.

Improved Absolute Astrometry for WFC3 and ACS

Program Information

ACS Instrument Resources

Recent News

Recently Published ISRs

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(ACS ISR 2023-02) Systematic Effects in ACS/WFC Absolute Gain Measurements

March 27, 2023G. S. Anand et al.

(ACS ISR 2023-01) Corrections to Commanding Overheads for ACS/WFC Exposures

February 17, 2023J. E. Ryon and N. A. Grogin

(ACS ISR 2022-08) Improved Identification of Satellite Trails in ACS/WFC Imaging Using a Modified Radon Transform

December 20, 2022D. V. Stark et al.

(ACS ISR 2022-07) Fading Hot Pixels in ACS/WFC

December 20, 2022J. E. Ryon, N. A. Grogin and M. C. McDonald

(ACS ISR 2022-06) ACS/WFC CTE photometric correction: improved model for bright point sources

December 19, 2022M. Chiaberge and J. E. Ryon

Recently Published STANs

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ACS STAN April 2023

April 04, 2023

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
  • CALACS updated to Version 10.3.5

LAST UPDATED: 05/24/2023

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