ACS after Servicing Mission 4: The WFC Optimization Campaign
Abstract
The ACS CCD Electronics Box Replacement (CEB-R) installed during SM4 features a Teledyne SIDECAR ASIC that permits optimization of the WFC via adjustment of CCD clock voltages, bias voltages, and pixel transmission timing. A built-in oscilloscope mode allows sensing of the analog signal from each output amplifier. An on-orbit campaign to optimize the performance of the WFC was undertaken at the start of the SMOV period. Initial tests with pre-SM4 default voltages and timing patterns showed that WFC's performance matches or exceeds its pre-failure levels, notwithstanding the expected increases in dark current and hot pixels and the decline in charge-transfer efficiency due to prolonged exposure to HST's radiation environment. The WFC2 CCD exhibited anomalous behavior when operated with nondefault settings of its amplifiers' reset-drain voltage (VOD). The CCD again displayed normal behavior when VOD was restored to its default setting. Consequently, the Optimization Campaign was truncated after two iterations, and ACS science operations commenced with the pre-SM4 default configuration.
- Publication:
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Instrument Science Report ACS 2011-04
- Pub Date:
- July 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011acs..rept....4G
- Keywords:
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- Hubble Space Telescope;
- HST;
- Space Telescope Science Institute;
- ACS