Pre-launch calibration of the advanced camera for surveys

André R. Martel

doi:10.1117/12.2283820

29 August 2017 Pre-launch calibration of the advanced camera for surveys

André R. Martel

Proceedings Volume 10313, Opto-Canada: SPIE Regional Meeting on Optoelectronics, Photonics, and Imaging; 103130O (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2283820
Event: Opto-Canada: SPIE Regional Meeting on Optoelectronics, Photonics, and Imaging, 2002, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Abstract

Introduction The fully integrated Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) (Ford et al. 1998, SPIE Vol. 3356, 234), suc- cessfully installed in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in early March 2002, underwent a series of ground calibration tests at Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation (BATC) and at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to verify its performance and flight readiness (Hartig et al. 1998, SPIE Vol. 3356, 321). The flight build detectors were installed in late 2000 and the majority of the flight quality data were acquired in the following year. The activities revolved around several major campaigns designed to characterize the flight build detectors and the optical and ultraviolet channels of the instrument and to verify the contract-end-item specifications. In the following, we briefly describe the different ground-based activities.

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André R. Martel "Pre-launch calibration of the advanced camera for surveys", Proc. SPIE 10313, Opto-Canada: SPIE Regional Meeting on Optoelectronics, Photonics, and Imaging, 103130O (29 August 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2283820

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