1.7 STIS Operations and Calibration Timeline
Here we summarize the milestones in STIS operations and innovations in calibration.
Date | Event |
|---|---|
1997-Feb-14 | STIS installed on HST |
1997-Feb-21 | Servicing Mission 2 programs started |
1997-Sep-25 | Servicing Mission 2 programs finished |
1999-Mar-15 | G140L and G140M moved from 3" above center to 3" below center to avoid repeller wire (see the STIS Instrument Handbook, Section 7.5 MAMA Spectral Offsetting) shadow |
1999-Dec-14 | On-the-fly-calibration (OTFC) enabled |
1999-Dec-27 | Servicing Mission 3A programs started |
2000-Feb-06 | Servicing Mission 3A programs finished |
2000-Jul-03 | E1 pseudo-apertures (see the STIS Instrument Handbook, |
2001-May-01 | On-the-fly-recalibration (OTFR) enabled |
2001-May-16 | Side-1 electronics failed, operations suspended |
2001-Jul-10 | Side-2 electronics enabled, operations resumed |
2002-Mar-12 | Servicing Mission 3B programs started |
2002-May-05 | Servicing Mission 3B programs finished |
2002-Sep-05 | Time-dependent sensitivity correction implemented for MAMA data |
2002-Sep-05 | Blaze shift correction for echelle data implemented |
2003-Aug-04 | E2 and D1 pseudo-apertures implemented, |
2003-Nov-13 | Time-dependent sensitivity correction implemented for CCD data |
2003-Dec-16 | Charge transfer inefficiency correction implemented for CCD data |
2004-Aug-03 | Side-2 electronics failed, operations suspended |
2005-Dec-13 | New combined grating/aperture correction implemented (see |
2006-Nov-03 | Echelle data flux calibration significantly improved, trace rotation implemented for commonly used first order modes |
2006-Nov-22 | Full recalibration of archival STIS data started |
2009-May-11 | Servicing Mission 4 program started |
2009-May-17 | Side-2 electronics are repaired, operations resumed |
2009-May-24 | Servicing Mission 4 program finished |
2011-Mar-01 | Updated NUV-MAMA bad-pixel masks to include vignetted corners for different optical elements |
2011-Nov-08 | Consistent post-SM4 sensitivity curves implemented for all echelle modes. |
2015-Sep-03 | Pixel-based CTE correction stand-alone tool released |
2016-May-16 | BAR5 coronagraphic aperture location implemented |
2017-Jan-20 | HST/STIS Target Acquisition Simulator Released |
2017-Jul-07 | FUV-MAMA geometric distortion correction implemented |
2017-Sep-19 | STIS blaze fix tool released |