Overview of the advanced camera for surveys on-orbit performance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4854, Issue , 2002, Pages 81-94

  Ford, Holland ^a   Clampin, Mark ^c   Hartig, George ^c   Illingworth, Garth ^b   Sirianni, Marco ^a   Martel, Andre ^a   Meurer, Gerhardt ^a   McCann, Wm Jon ^a   Sullivan, Pam ^d   Bartko, Frank ^h   Benitez, Narciso ^a   Blakeslee, John ^a   Bouwens, Rychard ^b   Broadhurst, Tom ^h   Brown, Robert ^c   Burrows, Chris ^h   Campbell, Doug ^d   Cheng, Ed ^d   Feldman, Paul ^a   Franx, Marijn ^e   Golimowski, David ^a   Gronwall, Caryl ^a   Kimble, Randy ^d   Krist, John ^c   Lesser, Michael ^g   Magee, Dan ^b   Miley, George ^e   Postman, Marc ^c   Rafal, Marc ^h   Rosati, Piero ^h   Sparks, William ^c   Tran, Hien ^a   Tsvetanov, Zlatan ^a   Volmer, Paul ^f   White, Rick ^c   Woodruff, Robert ^h   more..

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STScI   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^h NONE

Author keywords

ACS; CCDs; Coronagraph; Grism; HRC; HST; SBC; WFC

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; ORBITS; SPACE SHUTTLES; SPACE TELESCOPES;

ADVANCED CAMERA FOR SURVEYS; CORONAGRAPH; HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE;

CAMERAS;

EID: 0038701663     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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