E.5 The Cycle 18 Calibration Plan
The Cycle 18 calibration plan is summarized in WFC3 ISR 2011-14. It was executed from October 2010 through September 2011. The calibration programs comprising this plan are listed in Table E.6. The proposals and observation dates can be viewed by entering the Proposal ID into the HST Program Information webpage. The Cycle 18 plan provides less frequent monitoring of characteristics that were demonstrated to be stable during Cycle 17. It places increased emphasis on characterizing IR persistence, measuring UVIS and IR flat fields, calibrating the IR grism, monitoring CTE on the UVIS detector, and quantifying the ability to do high contrast imaging on both detectors. It tests CTE mitigation procedures and the performance of spatial scans for high S/N IR observations.
The results of these calibration programs have been documented in Instrument Science Reports on the WFC3 website at:
http://www.stsci.edu/hst/instrumentation/wfc3/documentation/instrument-science-reports-isrs.
Table E.6: Cycle 18 Calibration Programs
Proposal ID | Title |
12333 | UVIS&IR Zeropoint Stability Monitor |
12334 | UVIS & IR Photometric Calibration |
12335 | IR Color Transformation with asterisms |
12336 | Scan Enabled Photometry |
12337 | UVIS Flat Field Stability |
12338 | IR Flat Field Stability Monitor |
12339 | UVIS L-Flat Correction |
12340 | IR L-Flat Correction |
12341 | IR Blob Photometry Test |
12342 | UVIS Darks and Bias Monitor |
12343 | UVIS Anneal |
12344 | UVIS Bowtie Monitor |
12345 | UVIS Long Darks Test |
12346 | UVIS CCD Gain Stability Test |
12347 | UVIS Internal CTE Monitor: EPER |
12348 | UVIS Charge Injection Test |
12349 | IR Dark Monitor |
12350 | IR Gain Monitor |
12351 | IR Persistence Experiments |
12352 | IR Non-linearity (full frame & subarrays) |
12353 | UVIS & IR Geometric Distortion Corrections |
12354 | High Contrast Imaging |
12355 | IR Grism Wavelength and LSF Calibration |
12356 | IR Grism Wavelength Calibration Stability Test |
12357 | IR Grism Flux Calibration Monitor |
12358 | IR Grism L-flat Correction and Independent 2-D Wavelength Solution |
12359 | UVIS Grism Wavelength Calibration |
12379 | UVIS CTE Monitor: Star Clusters |
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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
- • Glossary