The temporal optical behavior of the hubble space telescope; the impact on science observations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6270, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Makidon, Russell B ^a   Lallo, Matthew D ^a   Casertano, Stefano ^a   Gilliland, Ronald L ^a   Sirianni, Marco ^a   Krist, John E ^b  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hubble Space Telescope; Optical observations; Point Spread Functions; Temporal variations

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTOMETRY;

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE (HST); OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS; TEMPORAL VARIATIONS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749356010     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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