WFC3 Science Calibration Plan : Part 4: Test Procedures
Abstract
The WFC3 Science Calibration Plan (ISR WFC3-2002-07) outlines a series of tests designed to calibrate the operational performance of Wide-Field Camera 3. The measurements will be undertaken at Goddard Space Flight Center with WFC3 under both ambient and thermal-vacuum environmental conditions. This document presents a set of baseline procedures for each test included in the SciCalPlan, together with basic procedures covering optical alignment. These serve as templates for the individual tests. Each WFC3 calibration campaign incorporates subsets of those tests, modified as necessary to accommodate prevailing circumstances. In particular, exposure times and exact exposure sequences are adapted to exigent circumstances.
- Publication:
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Space Telescope WFC Instrument Science Report
- Pub Date:
- February 2004
- Bibcode:
- 2004wfc..rept....3R
- Keywords:
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- Hubble Space Telescope;
- HST;
- Space Telescope Science Institute;
- Wide Field Camera 3;
- WFC3;
- science calibration plan