Acknowledgments
Current WFC3 Science Instrument Team (2024)
Munazza Alam
Jay Anderson
Sylvia Baggett (Team Lead)
Varun Bajaj
Annalisa Calamida (Deputy)
Frederick Dauphin
Michele De La Pena
Linda Dressel
Joel Green
Ky Huynh
Harish Khandrika
Benjamin Kuhn
Jennifer Mack
Mariarosa Marinelli
Catherine Martlin
Peter McCullough
Anne O'Connor
Amanda Pagul
Aidan Pidgeon
Mitchell Revalski
Isabel Rivera
Sachindev Shenoy
Debopam Som
All WFC3 Instrument Handbook Contributors
Munazza Alam, Jay Anderson, Sylvia Baggett, Varun Bajaj, Bruce Balick, John Biretta, Howard Bond, Ray Boucarut, Matthew Bourque, Gabriel Brammer, Jeremy Brett, Tom Brown, Howard Bushouse, Annalisa Calamida, Nicholas Collins, Colin Cox, Tomas Dahlen, Ilana Dashevsky, Tiffany Davis, Susana Deustua, Linda Dressel, Michael Dulude, Mario Gennaro, Mauro Giavalisco, Ron Gilliland, Heather Gunning, George Hartig, Bryan Hilbert, Robert J. Hill, Jason Kalirai, Diane Karakla, Harish Khandrika, Jessica Kim Quijano, Randy Kimble, Vera Kozhurina-Platais, Ben Kuhn, Martin Kümmel, Harald Kuntschner, Janice Lee, Matt Lallo, Knox Long, Olivia Lupie, Jennifer Mack, John MacKenty, Eliot Malumuth, Mariarosa Marinelli, André Martel, Catherine Martlin, Peter McCullough, Brian McLean, Jennifer Medina, Ivelina Momcheva, Mireia Montes-Quiles, Nikolay Nikolov, Kai Noeske, Cheryl Pavlovsky, Larry Petro, Aidan Pidgeon, Nor Pirzkal, Elizabeth Polidan, Manuel Quijada, Abhijith Rajan, Neill Reid, Adam Riess, Massimo Robberto, Barry Rothberg, Elena Sabbi, Kailash Sahu, Clare Shanahan, Kevin Stevenson, Massimo Stiavelli, Ben Sunnquist, Randal Telfer, Alex Viana, Nolan Walborn, Jeremy Walsh, Allen Welty, Tom Wheeler, and Mike Wong.
Past Science Integrated Product/Instrument Team Members
Elizabeth Barker, Sylvia Baggett, Wayne Baggett, John Biretta, Howard Bond, Matthew Bourque, Ariel Bowers, Gabriel Brammer, Howard Bushouse, Tom Brown, Laura Cawley, Ed Cheng (GSFC), Tomas Dahlen, Ilana Dashevsky, Tiffany Davis, Susana Deustua, Michael Dulude, Meredith Durbin, Michael Fall, Don Figer, Julia Fowler, Mario Gennaro, Mauro Giavalisco, Ron Gilliland, Shireen Gonzaga, Catherine Gosmeyer, Heather Gunning, Derek Hammer, Christopher Hanley, George Hartig, Ron Henry, Bryan Hilbert, Robert Hill (GSFC), Jason Kalirai, Jessica Kim Quijano, Randy Kimble (GSFC), Pat Knezek, Aiden Kovacs, Vera Kozhurina-Platais, Ray Kutina, Janice Lee, Casey Lisse, Knox Long, Olivia Lupie (GSFC), John MacKenty, André Martel, Myles Mckay, Brian McLean, Jennifer Medina, Ivelina Momcheva, Kai Noeske, Heather Olszewski, Cheryl Pavlovsky, Larry Petro, Nor Pirzkal, Marc Rafelski, Abhijith Rajan, Neill Reid, Adam Riess, Massimo Robberto, Michael Robinson, Barry Rothberg, Russell Ryan, Elena Sabbi, Kailash Sahu, Clare Shanahan, Megan Sosey, Keven Stevenson, Massimo Stiavelli, Ben Sunqnuist, Alex Viana, Mike Wong
The WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee
Bruce Balick, University of Washington
Howard E. Bond, Space Telescope Science Institute
Daniela Calzetti, University of Massachusetts
C. Marcella Carollo, Institute of Astronomy, ETH, Zurich
Michael J. Disney, Cardiff University
Michael A. Dopita, Mt Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories
Jay Frogel, AURA
Donald N. B. Hall, University of Hawaii
Jon A. Holtzman, New Mexico State University
Randy Kimble, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (ex officio)
Gerard Luppino, University of Hawaii
Patrick J. McCarthy, Carnegie Observatories
John MacKenty, Space Telescope Science Institute (ex officio)
Robert W. O’Connell, University of Virginia (Chair)
Francesco Paresce, European Southern Observatory
Abhijit Saha, National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Joseph I. Silk, Oxford University
John T. Trauger, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Alistair R. Walker, Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory
Bradley C. Whitmore, Space Telescope Science Institute
Rogier A. Windhorst, Arizona State University
Erick T. Young, University of Arizona
Thanks
The editors thank Munazza Alam, Sylvia Baggett, Annalisa Calamida, Ky Huynh, Benjamin Kuhn, Jennifer Mack, and Aidan Pidgeon for providing valuable feedback and updates for this edition. Contributions to earlier editions were made by past and present members of the WFC3 Science Integrated Product/Instrument Team.
The assistance of HDox Lead Coordinator Jenna Ryon and HDox software expert Paul Mulgrew is greatly appreciated.
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WFC3 Instrument Handbook
- • Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Introduction to WFC3
- Chapter 2: WFC3 Instrument Description
- Chapter 3: Choosing the Optimum HST Instrument
- Chapter 4: Designing a Phase I WFC3 Proposal
- Chapter 5: WFC3 Detector Characteristics and Performance
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Chapter 6: UVIS Imaging with WFC3
- • 6.1 WFC3 UVIS Imaging
- • 6.2 Specifying a UVIS Observation
- • 6.3 UVIS Channel Characteristics
- • 6.4 UVIS Field Geometry
- • 6.5 UVIS Spectral Elements
- • 6.6 UVIS Optical Performance
- • 6.7 UVIS Exposure and Readout
- • 6.8 UVIS Sensitivity
- • 6.9 Charge Transfer Efficiency
- • 6.10 Other Considerations for UVIS Imaging
- • 6.11 UVIS Observing Strategies
- Chapter 7: IR Imaging with WFC3
- Chapter 8: Slitless Spectroscopy with WFC3
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Chapter 9: WFC3 Exposure-Time Calculation
- • 9.1 Overview
- • 9.2 The WFC3 Exposure Time Calculator - ETC
- • 9.3 Calculating Sensitivities from Tabulated Data
- • 9.4 Count Rates: Imaging
- • 9.5 Count Rates: Slitless Spectroscopy
- • 9.6 Estimating Exposure Times
- • 9.7 Sky Background
- • 9.8 Interstellar Extinction
- • 9.9 Exposure-Time Calculation Examples
- Chapter 10: Overheads and Orbit Time Determinations
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Appendix A: WFC3 Filter Throughputs
- • A.1 Introduction
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A.2 Throughputs and Signal-to-Noise Ratio Data
- • UVIS F200LP
- • UVIS F218W
- • UVIS F225W
- • UVIS F275W
- • UVIS F280N
- • UVIS F300X
- • UVIS F336W
- • UVIS F343N
- • UVIS F350LP
- • UVIS F373N
- • UVIS F390M
- • UVIS F390W
- • UVIS F395N
- • UVIS F410M
- • UVIS F438W
- • UVIS F467M
- • UVIS F469N
- • UVIS F475W
- • UVIS F475X
- • UVIS F487N
- • UVIS F502N
- • UVIS F547M
- • UVIS F555W
- • UVIS F600LP
- • UVIS F606W
- • UVIS F621M
- • UVIS F625W
- • UVIS F631N
- • UVIS F645N
- • UVIS F656N
- • UVIS F657N
- • UVIS F658N
- • UVIS F665N
- • UVIS F673N
- • UVIS F680N
- • UVIS F689M
- • UVIS F763M
- • UVIS F775W
- • UVIS F814W
- • UVIS F845M
- • UVIS F850LP
- • UVIS F953N
- • UVIS FQ232N
- • UVIS FQ243N
- • UVIS FQ378N
- • UVIS FQ387N
- • UVIS FQ422M
- • UVIS FQ436N
- • UVIS FQ437N
- • UVIS FQ492N
- • UVIS FQ508N
- • UVIS FQ575N
- • UVIS FQ619N
- • UVIS FQ634N
- • UVIS FQ672N
- • UVIS FQ674N
- • UVIS FQ727N
- • UVIS FQ750N
- • UVIS FQ889N
- • UVIS FQ906N
- • UVIS FQ924N
- • UVIS FQ937N
- • IR F098M
- • IR F105W
- • IR F110W
- • IR F125W
- • IR F126N
- • IR F127M
- • IR F128N
- • IR F130N
- • IR F132N
- • IR F139M
- • IR F140W
- • IR F153M
- • IR F160W
- • IR F164N
- • IR F167N
- Appendix B: Geometric Distortion
- Appendix C: Dithering and Mosaicking
- Appendix D: Bright-Object Constraints and Image Persistence
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Appendix E: Reduction and Calibration of WFC3 Data
- • E.1 Overview
- • E.2 The STScI Reduction and Calibration Pipeline
- • E.3 The SMOV Calibration Plan
- • E.4 The Cycle 17 Calibration Plan
- • E.5 The Cycle 18 Calibration Plan
- • E.6 The Cycle 19 Calibration Plan
- • E.7 The Cycle 20 Calibration Plan
- • E.8 The Cycle 21 Calibration Plan
- • E.9 The Cycle 22 Calibration Plan
- • E.10 The Cycle 23 Calibration Plan
- • E.11 The Cycle 24 Calibration Plan
- • E.12 The Cycle 25 Calibration Plan
- • E.13 The Cycle 26 Calibration Plan
- • E.14 The Cycle 27 Calibration Plan
- • E.15 The Cycle 28 Calibration Plan
- • E.16 The Cycle 29 Calibration Plan
- • E.17 The Cycle 30 Calibration Plan
- • E.18 The Cycle 31 Calibration Plan
- • E.19 The Cycle 32 Calibration Plan
- • Glossary