STIS on-orbit testing: Limiting magnitudes, spectral sensitivity, thermal flexure and MAMA time-tagging

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3356, Issue , 1998, Pages 203-214

  Gull, Theodore R ^a   Woodgate, Bruce E ^a   Kimble, Randy A ^a   Bowers, Charles W ^a   Kraemer, Stephen B ^a,b   Elizabeth Kaiser, Mary ^a,c   Bohlin, Ralph C ^d   Hulbert, Steve J ^d   Shaw, Richard A ^d   Feggans, Keith ^a   Lindler, Don J ^a,e   L Sandoval, Jennifer ^a,e   Hill, Robert S ^a,f   Collins, Nicholas ^a,f   Brown, Thomas M ^a,g   Valenti, Jeff A ^g,h  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Catholic University   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STScI   (United States)

^e Advanced Computer Concepts Inc   (United States)

^f RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^g National Optical Astronomy Observatories   (United States)

^h Kitt Peak National Observatories   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Contamination; HST; Sensitivity; Space; Thermal motion; Ultraviolet; Visible

Indexed keywords

HST; SENSITIVITY; SPACE; THERMAL MOTION; ULTRAVIOLET; VISIBLE;

CALIBRATION; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CONTAMINATION; DETECTORS; SPACECRAFT POWER SUPPLIES; SPECTROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SPACE OPTICS;

SPACE TELESCOPES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE; SPACE TELESCOPE IMAGING SPECTROGRAPH; THERMAL MOTION;

EID: 0032295829     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.324443     Document Type: Conference Paper

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