WFPC2 Instrument Handbook for Cycle 10

Further Information

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The material contained in this Handbook is derived from ground tests and design information obtained by the IDT and the engineering team at JPL, and from on-orbit measurements. Other sources of information are listed below. A complete list of references appears on page 331.

• HST Phase II Proposal Instructions, (available only online at:

http://www.stsci.edu/public/p2pi.html).¹

• HST Data Handbook, (Version 3.0, October 1997).⁴
• Calibrating Hubble Space Telescope: Post Service Mission (1995).⁴
• The 1997 HST Calibration Workshop (1997) ⁴
• Proceedings of the CTE Workshop (2000)

http://www.stsci.edu/hst/acs/performance/cte_workgroup/cte_papers.html

• STSDAS Calibration Guide, (November 1991).⁴
• The Reduction of WF/PC Camera Images, Lauer, T., P.A.S.P. 101, 445 (1989).
• The Imaging Performance of the Hubble Space Telescope, Burrows, C. J., et. al., Ap. J. Lett., 369, L21 (1991).
• Interface Control Document (ICD) 19, "PODPS to STSDAS"
• Interface Control Document (ICD) 47, "PODPS to CDBS"
• The Wide Field/Planetary Camera in The Space Telescope Observatory, J. Westphal and the WF/PC-1 IDT, IAU 18th General Assembly, Patras, NASA CP-2244 (1982).
• The WFPC2 Science Calibration Report, Pre-launch Version 1.2, J. Trauger, editor, (1993). [IDT calibration report]
• White Paper for WFPC2 Far-Ultraviolet Science, J. T. Clarke and the WFPC2 IDT (1992)³.
• The Performance and Calibration of WFPC2 on the Hubble Space Telescope, Holtzman, J., et al., P.A.S.P., 107, 156 (1995).
• The Photometric Performance and Calibration of WFPC2, Holtzman, J., et al., P.A.S.P., 107, 1065 (1995).
• Charge-Transfer Efficiency of WFPC2, B. Whitmore, I. Heyer, S. Casertano, PASP, 111, 1559 (1999).
• The Institute's WFPC2 World Wide Web page at address:

http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/instrument_news/WFPC2/wfpc2_top.html

• The Institute's WFPC2 Space Telescope Analysis Newsletter (STAN), which is distributed monthly via e-mail, and provides notification of any changes in the instrument or its calibration. To subscribe, send e-mail to help@stsci.edu.

¹ These documents may be requested by e-mail from help@stsci.edu.