Current Members of the WFC3 Team

M. Alam, J. Anderson, S. Baggett, V. Bajaj, A. Calamida, F. Dauphin, M. de la Pena, L. Dressel, J. D. Green, K. Huynh, H. Khandrika, B. Kuhn, J. Mack, M. Marinelli, C. Martlin, P. R. McCullough, A. O'Connor, A. Pagul, A. Pidgeon, M. Revalski, I. Rivera, S. Shenoy, D. Som.

Former Members of the WFC3 Team

W. Baggett, H. Bond, T. Borders, M. Bourque, A. Bowers, G. Brammer, T. Brown, H. Bushouse, L. Cawley, T. Dahlen, S. Deustua, M. Dulude, M. Durbin, M. Fall, D. Figer, J. Fowler, M. Gennaro, M. Giavalisco, S. Gonzaga, C. Gosmeyer, H. Gunning, D. Hammer, C. Hanley, G. Hartig, B. Hilbert, M. Jones, J. Kalirai, P. Knezek, A. Kovacs, V. Kozhurina-Platais, H. Kurtz, R. Kutina, J. Lee, C. Lisse, K. Long, O. Lupie, J. MacKenty, M. McKay, J. Medina, I. Momcheva, M. Montes, N. Nikolov, K. Noeske, C. Pavlovski, N. Pirzkal, J. Kim Quijano, M. Rafelski, A. Rajan, N. Reid, A. G. Riess, M. Robberto, R. Ryan, E. Sabbi, C. Shanahan, K. C. Sahu, M. Sosey, K. Stevenson, M. Stiavelli, B. Sunnquist, D. Taylor, A. Viana, M. Wong

Thanks

The entire WFC3 team helped and actively participated in updating this Data Handbook. We thank Hsing-Ying Liu, Mariarosa Marinelli, Paul Mulgrew, and Jenna Ryon for their invaluable contributions to the editing and production of this Handbook.

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WFC3 Data Handbook
- • Acknowledgments
- • What's New in This Revision
- Preface
  - • Handbook Structure
  - • Typographic Conventions
- Chapter 1: WFC3 Instruments
  - • 1.1 Instrument Overview
  - • 1.2 The UVIS Channel
  - • 1.3 The IR Channel
- Chapter 2: WFC3 Data Structure
  - • 2.1 Types of WFC3 Files
  - • 2.2 WFC3 File Structure
  - • 2.3 Data Storage Requirements
  - • 2.4 Headers and Keywords
- Chapter 3: WFC3 Data Calibration
  - • 3.1 The calwf3 Data Processing Pipeline
  - • 3.2 UVIS Data Calibration Steps
  - • 3.3 IR Data Calibration Steps
  - • 3.4 Pipeline Tasks
  - • 3.5 Manual Recalibration of WFC3 Data
- Chapter 4: WFC3 Images: Distortion Correction and AstroDrizzle
- Chapter 5: WFC3 UVIS Sources of Error
  - • 5.1 Gain and Read Noise
  - • 5.2 Bias Subtraction
  - • 5.3 Dark Current and Hot Pixels
  - • 5.4 UVIS Flat Fields
  - • 5.5 Image Anomalies
  - • 5.6 Generic Detector and Camera Properties
  - • 5.7 UVIS Photometry Errors
  - • 5.8 References
- Chapter 6: WFC3 UVIS Charge Transfer Efficiency - CTE
  - • 6.1 Overview
  - • 6.2 CTE Losses And Background
  - • 6.3 The Nature Of CTE Losses
  - • 6.4 The Pixel-Based Model
  - • 6.5 Empirical Corrections
  - • 6.6 Dealing With CTE Losses in WFC3 UVIS Images
  - • 6.7 Sink Pixels
  - • 6.8 References
- Chapter 7: WFC3 IR Sources of Error
  - • 7.1 WFC3 IR Error Source Overview
  - • 7.2 Gain
  - • 7.3 WFC3 IR Bias Correction
  - • 7.4 WFC3 Dark Current and Banding
  - • 7.5 Blobs
  - • 7.6 Detector Nonlinearity Issues
  - • 7.7 Count Rate Non-Linearity
  - • 7.8 IR Flat Fields
  - • 7.9 Pixel Defects and Bad Imaging Regions
  - • 7.10 Time-Variable Background
  - • 7.11 IR Photometry Errors
  - • 7.12 References
- Chapter 8: Persistence in WFC3 IR
- Chapter 9: WFC3 Data Analysis
  - • 9.1 Photometry
  - • 9.2 Astrometry
  - • 9.3 Spectroscopy
  - • 9.4 STSDAS, STSCI_PYTHON and Astropy
  - • 9.5 Specific Tools for the Analysis of WFC3
  - • 9.6 References
- Chapter 10: WFC3 Spatial Scan Data
  - • 10.1 Analysis of Scanned Data
  - • 10.2 IR Scanned Data
  - • 10.3 UVIS Scanned Data
  - • 10.4 References

Acknowledgments

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Former Members of the WFC3 Team

Thanks

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