Inflight performance of the Advanced Camera for Surveys

Mark Clampin; Marco Sirianni; George F. Hartig; Holland C. Ford; Garth D. Illingworth; William Burmester; Andre R. Martel; Adam Riess; Ronald J. Schrein; Pamela C. Sullivan

doi:10.1117/12.512509

12 January 2004 Inflight performance of the Advanced Camera for Surveys

Mark Clampin, Marco Sirianni, George F. Hartig, Holland C. Ford, Garth D. Illingworth, William Burmester, Andre R. Martel, Adam Riess, Ronald J. Schrein, Pamela C. Sullivan

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Proceedings Volume 5167, Focal Plane Arrays for Space Telescopes; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.512509
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The Advanced camera for Surveys (ACS), installed in the Hubble Space telescope in March 2002, has significantly extended HST’s deep, survey imaging capabilities. ACS comprises three cameras: the Wide Field Camera (WFC) is designed for deep, near-IR survey imaging programs; the High Resolution Camera (HRC) is a high angular resolution imager/coronagraph, which fully samples the HST point spread function in the visible; and the Solar Blind Camera (SBC) is a far-UV imager. ACS has met, or exceeded all of its key performance specification. In this paper we briefly review the in-flight performances of the instrument's CCD detectors. We present an overview of the performance of the ACS CCD detectors, based on the first year of flight science operations.

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Mark Clampin, Marco Sirianni, George F. Hartig, Holland C. Ford, Garth D. Illingworth, William Burmester, Andre R. Martel, Adam Riess, Ronald J. Schrein, and Pamela C. Sullivan "Inflight performance of the Advanced Camera for Surveys", Proc. SPIE 5167, Focal Plane Arrays for Space Telescopes, (12 January 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.512509

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