Recent

• WIRE Instument Science Reports:
  WIRE-2005-002- CRIRES Optical Model for Wavelength Calibration V1.0;
  WIRE-2005-003- High Quality Input Data for the WIRE Instrument model of CRIRES;
• STIS Instument Science Reports:
  CE-STIS-2004-003- STIS Model Based Charge Transfer Inefficiency Correction Example Science Case 1: Proper Motions of Dwarf Galaxies;
  

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• Space Telescope Calibration Workshop, STScI 2005:
  - STIS Calibration Enhancement: Dispersion Solutions Based on a Physical Instrument Model (pdf)
  - STIS Calibration Enhancement: Implementation of Model Based Techniques for Wavelength Calibration and Charge Transfer Inefficiency (pdf)
  - Characterization of Pt/Cr-Ne Hollow Cathode Lamps for Wavelength Standards in Space Astronomy Poster
  - Performance of the FOS and GHRS Pt/(Cr)-Ne Hollow Cathode Lamps After Their return from Space and copmarison with Archival Data Poster
• Proper Motions of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging. III. Measurement for Ursa Minor (pdf), AJ, 130, 95-115. Jul 2005.
• CTI Science Case: Proper Motions of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies ST-ECF Newsletter #38 July 2005
• ADASS 2004 Wavelength Calibration in Physical Model Based Pipelines
• New Insights from the ST-ECF Lamp Project in ST-ECF Newsletter #37, October 2004
• Characterization of the Far-UV Spectrum of Pt/Cr-Ne Hollow Cathode Lamps as Used on STIS (pdf), ApJS, 153:555-579, August 2004

Papers and Reports

• Proceedings:
  • HST Calibration Workshop 2002 Modelling Charge Transfer on the STIS CCD.
  • ADASS 2001.1 Close-out and final improvement of POA FOS/BLUE Archived Data
  • ADASS 2001.2 Data Processing Improvements that Can Be Made for Final Archives
  • ADASS 2000 STPOA-New Pipeline Package for the HST Post Operational Archive.
    
• FOS ISR's contributed by POA Staff:

• 114 Scattered Light in the FOS: An Assessment Using Science Data
• 127 The FOS Scattered Light Model Software
• 149 Zero-Points of FOS Wavelength Scales
  
• ST-ECF Technical Reports:
• CE-STIS-2004-002- The Impact of the CTI Correction Pre-Processor Upon Standard STIS CCD Pipeline Dark and Bias Reference Files;
• CE-STIS-2004-001 - Overview of the CE-STIS CTI Pre-Processor BETA;
• CE-STIS-2003-001 - Application of Model Derived Charge Transfer Inefficiency Corrections to STIS Photometric CCD Data;
• CE-STIS-2003-002 - Application of Model Derived Charge Transfer Inefficiency Corrections to STIS Spectroscopic CCD Data
• CE-STIS--2002-01 Modelling Charge Coupled Device Readout: Simulation Overview and Early Results
• POA/FOS-2001-01 GIMP and YBASE Induced Zero-Point Shifts in FOS Data
• POA/FOS-2001-02 Tracking FOS on-board GIMP in commanding, AEDP telemetry and header contents
• POA/FOS-2001-03 POA Analysis of FOS Flatfields
• POA/FOS-2001-04 Reprocessing of FOS data I
• POA/FOS-2001-05 No Internal/ External Offsets in the FOS/BLUE Wavelength Calibration Zero Point
• POA/FOS-2001-06 Science Verification
• POA/FOS-2001-07 POA Investigation of FOS Dark Correction.
• POA/FOS-2001-08 Re-processing of HST FOS Data

• ST-ECF Newsletter Articles:

• Rectification of FOS wavelength Scales, in the June 2000 issue, #27
• POA FOS project summary in the June 2000 issue, #27
• FOS Blue-side Spectroscopic Data in the July 2001 issue, #29
• STIS Calibration Enhancement - Spectral Characterisation of Pt/Cr-Ne Hollow Cathode Lamps in the March 2003 issue, #33
• CCD Charge Transfer Efficiency in September 2003 issue, #34
• New Insights from the ST-ECF Lamp Project in October 2004 issue #37.
• CTI Science Case: Proper Motions of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies in July 2005 issue, #38

• Non Instrument Specific Documentation
  
  • HST Data Handbook
    
• FOS Documents

Press Releases

• FOS Recalibration Final Release announcement, 11/9/1.

Presentations

• STIS Calibration Enhancement: Dispersion Solutions Based on a Physical Instrument Model. Presented at the Space Telescope Calibration Workshop, October 2005. Florian Kerber
• STIS Calibration Enhancement: Implementation of Model Based Techniques for Wavelength Calibration and Charge Transfer Inefficiency, Presented at the Space Telescope Calibration Workshop, October 2005. Paul Bristow.
• Development and Application of a Charge Transfer Model for STIS, Presented to SNAP detector group at LBNL, October 2004. Paul Bristow
• Calibration Enhancement for Space Telescope and VLT Data via Instrument Physical Modeling, Presented at UCO/Lick Astrophysics lunch talk, October 2004. Paul Bristow
• Wavelength calibration in physical model based calibration pipelines, Astronomical Data Analysis III,  S. Agata sui due Golfi, Naples, April 2004. Mauro Fiorentino
• The CE-STIS CTI Pre-processor- BETA, STScI TIPS meeting February 2004. Paul Bristow
• Application of a Charge Transfer Model to Space Telescope Data, ICSOI Cozumel November 2003. Paul Bristow
• Calibration Enhance Archive Requirements, prepared for the February 2003 Archive Co-ordination Meeting. Anastasia Alexov.
• Post-Operational Archives Status and Plans, prepared for STUC 2001 Michael R. Rosa
• Predictive Calibration and Forward Analysis of Observational Data, Michael R. Rosa
• Final POA_CALFOS/STPOA Package Release, Anastasia Alexov. August 2001
• FOS Post-Operational Archive and STIS Calibration Enhancement, Michael R. Rosa. October 2002

• The "POA Scale"
  
  
• POA Mission Statement

Posters

• HST Calibration Workshop 2005.2 Performance of the FOS and GHRS Pt/(Cr)-Ne Hollow Cathode Lamps After Their from Space and copmarison with Archival Data
• HST Calibration Workshop 2005.1 Characterization of Pt/Cr-Ne Hollow Cathode Lamps for Wavelength Standards in Space Astronomy
• SPIE Glasgow 2004 Spectral Characterization of HST Calibration Lamps - New Pt/Cr-Ne Line Catalogues and Ageing Test
• ADASS 2003.1 Evaluation of Methods to Locate Emission Lines from Calibration Lamps in 2D Spectroscopic Data (.ppt)
• ADASS 2003.2 Model Based Corrections to Data from Radiation Damaged Detectors
• HST Calibration Workshop 2002 Modelling Charge Transfer on the STIS CCD
• AAS 2002 Final Improvement of HST POA FOS/Blue Archive Data and Pipeline Processing
• ADASS 2001.1 (A0 postscript) Close-out and final improvement of POA FOS/BLUE Archived Data (best viewed with 'gv')
• ADASS 2001.2 Data Processing Improvements that Can Be Made for Final Archives
• ADASS 2000 (A0 postscript) STPOA-New Pipeline Package for the HST Post Operational Archive. (best viewed with 'gv', a smaller A4 postscript version is availabe here)