HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science
DAILY REPORT # 4238
PERIOD COVERED: UT November 09,10,11,12, 2006 (DOY 313,314,315,316)
OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED
NIC1/NIC2/NIC3 8794
NICMOS Post-SAA calibration - CR Persistence Part 5
A new procedure proposed to alleviate the CR-persistence problem of NICMOS Dark frames will be obtained immediately upon exiting the SAA contour 23, and every time a NICMOS exposure is scheduled within 50 minutes of coming out of the SAA The darks will be obtained in parallel in all three NICMOS Cameras The POST-SAA darks will be non-standard reference files available to users with a USEAFTER date/time mark The keyword 'USEAFTER=date/time' will also be added to the header of each POST-SAA DARK frame The keyword must be populated with the time, in addition to the date, because HST crosses the SAA ~8 times per day so each POST-SAA DARK will need to have the appropriate time specified, for users to identify the ones they need Both the raw and processed images will be archived as POST-SAA DARKSs Generally we expect that all NICMOS science/calibration observations started within 50 minutes of leaving an SAA will need such maps to remove the CR persistence from the science images Each observation will need its own CRMAP, as different SAA passages leave different imprints on the NICMOS detectors
ACS/WFC 10994
Infalling Groups and the Origin of Early-Type Galaxies
The creation of the cluster early-type galaxy sequence most likely occurs in groups, as mergers are possible in such environments Recent results have shown that groups of galaxies at half of the Hubble time show a truncated red-sequence We are surveying two small groups that will fall into a massive cluster by z=0, to determine the morphologies of the group members The truncation of the red sequence should show up in the morphology-density relation and in an increased merger fraction
FGS 10927
The Weight-Watcher Program for Subdwarfs
We propose to use HST/FGS1r to measure five subdwarf spectroscopic binaries to determine masses for the components Their metallicities, [Fe/H], range from -0 5 to -2 5, and their projected minimum separations range from 9 to 24 mas These binaries are resolvable with HST/FGS1r but not any ground-based technique Currently, there are only two subdwarf systems having any mass measurements The proposed work will boost the total number of subdwarf systems with masses from two to seven, and allow us to construct the first mass-luminosity relation for low- metallicity stars
WFPC2 10915
ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey
Existing HST observations of nearby galaxies comprise a sparse and highly non-uniform archive, making comprehensive comparative studies among galaxies essentially impossible We propose to secure HST's lasting impact on the study of nearby galaxies by undertaking a systematic, complete, and carefully crafted imaging survey of ALL galaxies in the Local Universe outside the Local Group The resulting images will allow unprecedented measurements of: {1} the star formation history {SFH} of a >100 Mpc^3 volume of the Universe with a time resolution of Delta[log{t}]=0 25; {2} correlations between spatially resolved SFHs and environment; {3} the structure and properties of thick disks and stellar halos; and {4} the color distributions, sizes, and specific frequencies of globular and disk clusters as a function of galaxy mass and environment To reach these goals, we will use a combination of wide-field tiling and pointed deep imaging to obtain uniform data on all 72 galaxies within a volume-limited sample extending to ~3 5 Mpc, with an extension to the M81 group For each galaxy, the wide-field imaging will cover out to ~1 5 times the optical radius and will reach photometric depths of at least 2 magnitudes below the tip of the red giant branch throughout the limits of the survey volume One additional deep pointing per galaxy will reach SNR~10 for red clump stars, sufficient to recover the ancient SFH from the color-magnitude diagram This proposal will produce photometric information for ~100 million stars {comparable to the number in the SDSS survey} and uniform multi-color images of half a square degree of sky The resulting archive will establish the fundamental optical database for nearby galaxies, in preparation for the shift of high-resolution imaging to the near-infrared
ACS/WFC 10905
The Dynamic State of the Dwarf Galaxy Rich Canes Venatici I Region
With accurate distances, the nearest groups of galaxies can be resolved in 3 dimensions and the radial component of the motions of galaxies due to local density perturbations can be distinquished from cosmological expansion components Currently, with the ACS, galaxy distances within 8 Mpc can be measured effectively and efficiently by detecting the tip of the red giant branch {TRGB} Of four principal groups at high galactic latitude in this domain, the Canes Venatici I Group {a} is the least studied, {b} is the most populated, though overwhelmingly by dwarf galaxies, and {c} is likely the least dynamically evolved It is speculated that galaxies in low mass groups may fail to retain baryons as effectively as those in high mass groups, resulting in significantly higher mass-to-light ratios The CVn I Group is suspected to lie in the mass regime where the speculated astrophysical processes that affect baryon retention are becoming important
ACS/WFC 10895
Closure on the IRAS "Big Four": A High Contrast Study of Epsilon Eridani's Dust Belt in Scattered Light
The ACS / HRC coronagraph has now demonstrated an unmatched capability to detect dusty debris disks around bright, nearby stars Among the "Big Four" debris disks discovered with IRAS twenty years ago, only Epsilon Eridani {SpT=K2V, d=3 2 pc} has yet to be targeted with ACS Beta Pictoris, Fomalhaut and Vega have been imaged with the ACS coronagraph, with the recent detection of reflected light from Fomalhaut's dust belt {Kalas, Graham & Clampin 2005} The direct detection of dust scattered light around Fomalhaut shows disk structure and asymmetry that can be directly linked to dynamical models of planetary perturbation Here we propose to use the ACS HRC and WFC to detect Eps Eri's dust belt A new motivation to attempt this observations arises from recent 350 micron images that reveal two dust arcs ~60 AU to the southeast and northwest of the star Contrary to previous 850 and 450 micron maps, the northwest arc is brighter than the southeast arc, and the northwest region has not been targeted by previous STIS imaging at lower contrast The optical detection of dust features around Eps Eri would be significant because a high resolution optical image, together with Spitzer and sub-mm images, would help anchor dynamical models of Eps Eri's planetary system, in addition to providing direct visual indications of disk-planet interactions
NIC2 10893
Sweeping Away the Dust: Reliable Dark Energy with an Infrared Hubble Diagram
We propose building a high-z Hubble Diagram using type Ia supernovae observed in the infrared rest-frame J-band The infrared has a number of exceptional properties The effect of dust extinction is minimal, reducing a major systematic tha may be biasing dark energy measurements Also, recent work indicates that type Ia supernovae are true standard candles in the infrared meaning that our Hubble diagram will be resistant to possible evolution in the Phillips relation over cosmic time High signal-to-noise measurements of 9 type Ia events at z~0 4 will be compared with an independent optical Hubble diagram from the ESSENCE project to test for a shift in the derived dark energy equation of state due to a systematic bias Because of the bright sky background, H-band photometry of z~0 4 supernovae is not feasible from the ground Only the superb image quality and dark infrared sky seen by HST makes this test possible This experiment may also lead to a better, more reliable way of mapping the expansion history of the universe with the Joint Dark Energy Mission
ACS/WFC 10882
Emission Line Snapshots of 3CR Radio Galaxies
Radio galaxies are an important class of extragalactic objects: they are one of the most energetic astrophysical phenomena and they provide an exceptional probe of the evolving Universe, lying typically in high density regions but well-represented across a wide redshift range In earlier Cycles we carried out extensive HST observations of the 3CR sources in order to acquire a complete and quantitative inventory of the structure, contents and evolution of these important objects We discovered new optical jets, dust lanes, and revealed point-like nuclei whose properties support AGN unified schemes Here, we propose to obtain ACS emission line images at low and high excitation of 3CR sources with z<0 3, both low- and classical high- power radio galaxies, as a major enhancement to an already superb dataset We aim to probe fundamental relationships between warm optical line-emitting gas, radio source structure {jets and lobes} and X-ray coronal halos We will combine our existing UV images with new emission- line images to establish quantitative star formation characteristics and their relation to dust and merging, and with emission-line excitation maps, test theories on ionization beam patterns and luminosities from active nuclei We will seek jet induced star formation and knowing optical emission-line physics, investigate quantitative jet physics The nuclear emission line properties of the galaxies will themselves be established and used as ingredients in continuing tests of unified AGN theories The resulting database will be an incredibly valuable resource to the astronomical community for years to come
ACS/WFC 10880
The host galaxies of QSO2s: AGN feeding and evolution at high luminosities
Now that the presence of supermassive black holes in the nuclei of
galaxies is a well established fact, other questions related to the AGN
phenomena still have to be answered
Problems of particular interest are
how the AGN gets fed, how the black hole evolves and how the evolution
of the black hole is related to the evolution of the galaxy bulge
Here
we propose to address some of these issues using ACS/WFC + F775W
snapshot images of 73 QSO2s with redshifts in the range 0
3 ACS/WFC 10876 SL2S: The Strong Lensing Legacy Survey Strong Gravitational Lensing is an invaluable tool to constrain the
absolute mass distribution of structures irrespective of their light
distribution
Strong Lensing has successfully been applied to single
galaxies lensing quasars into multiple images, and to massive clusters
lensing background sources into giant arcs
More recently, the Sloan
Lens ACS Survey also found numerous examples of isolated, yet massive
ellipticals lensing background galaxies into Einstein rings
We have
started the Strong Lensing Legacy Survey {SL2S} looking for strong
lenses in the 170 sq
degree CFHT-Legacy Survey, using dedicated
automated search procedures, optimized for detection of arcs and
Einstein rings
Thanks to the unsurpassed combined depth, area and image
quality of the CFHT-LS, we uncovered a new population of lenses: the
intermediate mass halo and sub-halo lenses
This new population
effectively bridges the gap between single galaxies and massive
clusters
Here, we propose to obtain SNAPSHOT ACS images of the 50 first
strong lens candidates with Einstein radii 2" ACS/WFC 10875 A Snapshot Survey of The Most Massive Clusters of Galaxies We propose the continuation of our highly successful Cycle14 snapshot
survey of a sample of 123 very X-ray luminous clusters in the redshift
range 0
3-0
7
As demonstrated by the 21 snapshots obtained so far in
Cycle14 these systems frequently exhibit strong gravitational lensing as
well as spectacular examples of violent galaxy evolution
The proposed
observations will provide important constraints on the cluster mass
distributions, the physical nature of galaxy-galaxy and galaxy-gas
interactions in cluster cores, and a set of optically bright, lensed
galaxies for further 8-10m spectroscopy
Acknowledging the broad
community interest in this sample we waive our data rights for these
observations
ACS/HRC 10860 The largest Kuiper belt object The past year has seen an explosion in the discoveries of Pluto-sized
objects in the Kuiper belt
With the discoveries of the methane-covered
2003 UB313 and 2005 FY9, the multiple satellite system of 2003 EL61, and
the Pluto-Charon analog system of Orcus and its satellite, it is finally
apparent that Pluto is not a unique oddball at the edge of the solar
system, but rather one of a family of similarly large objects in the
Kuiper belt and beyond
HST observations over the past decade have been
critical for understanding the interior, surface, and atmosphere of
Pluto and Charon
We propose here a comprehensive series of observations
designed to similarly expand our knowledge of these recently discovered
Pluto-sized and near-Pluto-sized Kuiper belt objects
These observations
will measure objects' sizes and densities, explore the outcome of
collisions in the outer solar system, and allow the first ever look at
the interior structure of a Kuiper belt object
Our wide field survey
that discovered all of these objects is nearly finished, so after five
years of continuous searching we are finally almost complete in our
tally of these near-Pluto-sized objects
This large HST request is the
culmination of this half-decade search for new planetary-sized objects
As has been demonstrated repeatedly by the approximately 100 previous
orbits devoted to the study of Pluto, only HST has the resolution and
sensitivity for detailed study of these distant objects
ACS/HRC 10833 Host Galaxies of Reverberation Mapped AGNs We propose to obtain unsaturated high-resolution images of 17
reverberation-mapped active galactic nuclei in order to remove the
point-like nuclear light from each image, thus yielding a "nucleus-free"
image of the host galaxy
This will allow investigation of host galaxy
properties: our particular interest is determination of the host-galaxy
starlight contribution to the reverberation-mapping observations
This
is necessary {1} for accurate determination of the relationship between
the AGN nuclear continuum flux and the size of the broad Balmer-line
emitting regions of AGNs, which is important in estimating black hole
masses for large samples of QSOs, and {2} for accurate determination of
the bolometric luminosity of the AGN proper
Through observations in
Cycles 12 and 14, we have obtained or will obtain images of 18 of the 35
objects in the reverberation-mapping compilation of Peterson et al
{2004}
These observations revealed that the host-galaxy contribution,
even in the higher-luminosity AGNs, is higher than expected and that all
of the reverberation-mapped AGNs will have to be observed, not just the
lower-luminosity sources; each source is different, and each source is
important
Therefore we request time to observe the 17 remaining
reverberation-mapped AGNs
ACS/WFC 10831 A new wide-separation Einstein Cross at z=2
7 We propose ACS F555W and F814W imaging observations of a new
wide-separation Einstein Cross selected from SDSS spectroscopy through a
bright anomalous emission line and confirmed recently with Keck imaging
and spectroscopy
The source galaxy is a moderately luminous {L~0
2L*}
Lyman-alpha emitter at z=2
699, which is magnified and extended by more
than a factor of twenty, making it one of the most accessible
high-redshift bright Ly-a emitters on the sky
Its apparent flux is only
1
2 magnitudes fainter than MS1612-cB58, making this an ideal system for
detailed study of the metallicity and initial mass function of a
high-redshift star forming galaxy
The Einstein Radius is ~1
8arcsec,
one of the widest known, making future spectroscopic ground-based
followup optimal
This angle subtends ~5 kpc at the lens galaxy at
z=0
331
The high resolution, high signal to noise imaging we propose to
obtain will allow us to build accurate lensing models, including source
reconstructions; combined with existing and planned Keck spectroscopy,
will make possible a map of the host dark matter halo density profile to
greater than one effective light radius; and will reveal lower surface
brightness features associated with the bright star-forming knot lensed
into the Cross
Finally, it will be an exquisite Hubble Heritage galaxy,
which will be indispensable for many other applications
We are
requesting a very modest proprietary period, in order to provide
high-level reductions and ancillary data publically available
simultaneously
ACS/WFC 10829 Secular Evolution at the End of the Hubble Sequence The bulgeless disk galaxies at the end of the Hubble Sequence evolve at
a glacial pace relative to their more violent, earlier-type cousins
The
causes of their internal, or secular evolution are important because
secular evolution represents the future fate of all galaxies in our
accelerating Universe and is a key ingredient to understanding galaxy
evolution in lower-density environments at present
The rate of secular
evolution is largely determined by the stability of the cold ISM against
collapse, star formation, and the buildup of a central bulge
Key
diagnostics of the ISM's stability are the presence of compact molecular
clouds and narrow dust lanes
Surprisingly, edge-on, pure disk galaxies
with circular velocities below 120 km/s do not appear to contain such
dust lanes
We propose to obtain ACS/WFC F606W images of a well-selected
sample of extremely late-type disk galaxies to measure the
characteristic scale size of the cold ISM and determine if they possess
the unstable, cold ISM necessary to drive secular evolution
Our sample
has been carefully constructed to include disk galaxies above and below
the critical circular velocity of 120 km/s where the dust properties of
edge-on disks change so remarkably
We will then use surface brightness
profiles to search for nuclear star clusters and pseudobulges, which are
early indicators that secular evolution is at work, as well as measure
the pitch angle of the dust lanes as a function of radius to estimate
the central mass concentrations
NIC2, ACS/WFC 10802 SHOES-Supernovae, HO, for the Equation of State of Dark energy The present uncertainty in the value of the Hubble constant {resulting
in an uncertainty in Omega_M} and the paucity of Type Ia supernovae at
redshifts exceeding 1 are now the leading obstacles to determining the
nature of dark energy
We propose a single, integrated set of
observations for Cycle 15 that will provide a 40% improvement in
constraints on dark energy
This program will observe known Cepheids in
six reliable hosts of Type Ia supernovae with NICMOS, reducing the
uncertainty in H_0 by a factor of two because of the smaller dispersion
along the instability strip, the diminished extinction, and the weaker
metallicity dependence in the infrared
In parallel with ACS, at the
same time the NICMOS observations are underway, we will discover and
follow a sample of Type Ia supernovae at z > 1
Together, these
measurements, along with prior constraints from WMAP, will provide a
great improvement in HST's ability to distinguish between a static,
cosmological constant and dynamical dark energy
The Hubble Space
Telescope is the only instrument in the world that can make these IR
measurements of Cepheids beyond the Local Group, and it is the only
telescope in the world that can be used to find and follow supernovae at
z > 1
Our program exploits both of these unique capabilities of HST to
learn more about one of the greatest mysteries in science
ACS/HRC/WFC 10758 ACS CCDs daily monitor This program consists of a set of basic tests to monitor, the read
noise, the development of hot pixels and test for any source of noise in
ACS CCD detectors
The files, biases and dark will be used to create
reference files for science calibration
This programme will be for the
entire lifetime of ACS
Changes from cycle 13:- The default gain for WFC
is 2 e-/DN
As before bias frames will be collected for both gain 1 and
gain 2
Dark frames are acquired using the default gain {2}
This
program cover the period May, 31 2006- Oct, 1-2006
The first half of
the program has a different proposal number: 10729
NIC1/NC2/NC3 10723 Cycle 14 NICMOS dark current, shading profile, and read noise monitoring
program The purpose of this proposal is to monitor the dark current, read noise,
and shading profile for all three NICMOS detectors throughout the
duration of Cycle 14
This proposal is a slightly modified version of
proposal 10380 of cycle 13 and 9993 of cycle12 that we cut down some
exposure time to make the observation fit within 24 orbits
FGS 10611 Precise Distances to Nearby Planetary Nebulae We propose to carry out astrometry with the FGS to obtain accurate and
precise distances to four nearby planetary nebulae
In 1992, Cahn et al
noted that ``The distances to Galactic planetary nebulae remain a
serious, if not THE most serious, problem in the field, despite decades
of study
'' Twelve years later, the same statement still applies
Because the distances to planetary nebulae are so uncertain, our
understanding of their masses, luminosities, scale height, birth rate,
and evolutionary state is severely limited
To help remedy this problem,
HST astrometry can guarantee parallaxes with half the error of any other
available approach
These data, when combined with parallax measurements
from the USNO, will improve distance measurements by more than a factor
of two, producing more accurate distances with uncertainties that are of
the order of ~6%
Lastly, most planetary nebula distance scales in the
literature are statistical
They require several anchor points of known
distance in order to calibrate their zero point
Our program will
provide "gold standard" anchor points by the end of 2006, a decade
before any anticipated results from future space astrometry missions
ACS/WFC 10605 Quantifying Star Formation and Feedback: The M81 Group Dwarf Galaxies Studies of the impact of star formation via stellar winds and supernovae
{'feedback'} on the properties of a galaxy are of fundamental importance
to understanding galaxy evolution
One crucial aspect in these studies
is a precise census of the recent star formation in a galaxy
The aim of
this proposal is to obtain spatially resolved star formation histories
with a time resolution of roughly 30 Myr over the last 500 Myr in a
carefully designed sample using the absolutely unique capabilities of
the ACS
Our sample comprises 10 galaxies in the M81 group which is host
to a wide diversity of dwarf star forming galaxies
They span ranges of
6 magnitudes in luminosity, 1000 in current star formation rate, and 0
5
dex in metallicity
The ACS observations will allow us to directly
observe the strength and spatial relationships of all of the star
formation in these galaxies in the last 500 Myr
We can then quantify
the star formation and measure {1} the fraction of star formation that
is triggered by feedback, {2} the fraction of star formation that occurs
in clusters and associations, and {3} to what degree future star
formation is governed by the feedback from previous star formation
The
ACS observations will be complemented with high-quality ancillary data
collected by our team for all galaxies {e
g
, Spitzer, UV/optical/NIR,
VLA HI}
We will calculate the energy created by star formation events
and compare it to the estimated energy deposited into the local ISM
This will enable us to construct prescriptions of how star formation and
feedback depend on metallicity, size, gas content, and current star
formation rates in galaxies
Our resolved star formation maps will be
compared with star formation rates inferred from H-alpha, UV, and IR
observations - allowing an independent calibration of these techniques
Recent ACS imaging by us of one galaxy in the same group clearly
demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed program
Most of the sample
galaxies are located in the CVZ, making this an extremely efficient
program
ACS/WFC 10587 Measuring the Mass Dependence of Early-Type Galaxy Structure We propose two-color ACS-WFC Snapshot observations of a sample of 118
candidate early- type gravitational lens galaxies
Our lens-candidate
sample is selected to yield {in combination with earlier results} an
approximately uniform final distribution of 40 early-type strong lenses
across a wide range of masses, with velocity dispersions {a dynamical
proxy for mass} ranging from 125 to 300 km/s
The proposed program will
deliver the first significant sample of low-mass gravitational lenses
All of our candidates have known lens and source redshifts from Sloan
Digital Sky Survey data, and all are bright enough to permit detailed
photometric and stellar- dynamical observation
We will constrain the
luminous and dark-matter mass profiles of confirmed lenses using
lensed-image geometry and lens-galaxy structural/photometric
measurements from HST imaging in combination with dynamical measurements
from spatially resolved ground-based follow-up spectroscopy
Hence we
will determine, in unprecedented detail, the dependence of early-type
galaxy mass structure and mass-to-light ratio upon galaxy mass
These
results will allow us to directly test theoretical predictions for halo
concentration and star-formation efficiency as a function of mass and
for the existence of a cuspy inner dark- matter component, and will
illuminate the structural explanation behind the fundamental plane of
early-type galaxies
The lens-candidate selection and confirmation
strategy that we propose has been proven successful for high-mass
galaxies by our Cycle 13 Snapshot program {10174}
The program that we
propose here will produce a complementary and unprecedented lens sample
spanning a wide range of lens-galaxy masses
ACS/HRC 10556 Neutral Gas at Redshift z=0
5 Damped Lyman-alpha systems {DLAs} are used to track the bulk of the
neutral hydrogen gas in the Universe
Prior to HST UV spectroscopy, they
could only be studied from the ground at redshifts z>1
65
However, HST
has now permitted us to discover 41 DLAs at z<1
65 in our previous
surveys
Followup studies of these systems are providing a wealth of
information about the evolution of the neutral gas phase component of
the Universe
But one problem is that these 41 low-redshift systems are
spread over a wide range of redshifts spanning nearly 70% of the age of
the Universe
Consequently, past surveys for low-redshift DLAs have not
been able to offer very good precision in any small redshift regime
Here we propose an ACS-HRC- PR200L spectroscopic survey in the redshift
interval z=[0
37, 0
7] which we estimate will permit us to discover
another 41 DLAs
This will not only allow us to double the number of
low-redshift DLAs, but it will also provide a relatively high-precision
regime in the low-redshift Universe that can be used to anchor
evolutionary studies
Fortunately DLAs have high absorption equivalent
width, so ACS-HRC-PR200L has high-enough resoultion to perform this
proposed MgII-selected DLA survey
ACS/WFC 10500 Exploring the Bottom End of the White Dwarf Cooling Sequence in the
Galactic Open Cluster NGC2158 The recent discovery by our group of an unexpectedly bright and still
unexplained peak in the white dwarf {WD} luminosity function {LF} of the
metal rich, old open cluster NGC6791 casts serious doubts on our
understanding of the physical process which rules the formation and the
cooling of WDs
In order to investigate whether the same problem is
present in other open clusters with different ages and metallicities, we
propose deep ACS/HST observations reaching the bottom end of the WD LFs,
for the first time in a young and so popolous Galactic open cluster:
NGC2158
ACS/HRC 10498 Detecting the progenitors of core-collapse supernovae Modern supernovae searches in the nearby Universe are discovering large
numbers of SNe which have massive star progenitors {Types II, Ib and
Ic}
The extensive HST image archives within ~20Mpc enables their
indvidual bright stellar content to be resolved
As massive, evolved
stars are the most luminous single objects in a galaxy, the progenitos
of core-collapse SNe should be directly detectable on pre-explosion
images
Two recent highlights of our ongoing HST programme are that we
have detected the first red supergiant progenitor of a normal type II
supernova and shown that SN1993J came from a binary system by detecting
the companion star at the position of the SN
We have detected a further
two progenitor stars of normal type II-P supernovae, set mass limits on
a further 7 and suggest that faint type II supernovae are unlikely to
come from the collapse of very massive stars which form black holes
These discoveries are providing strong constraints on theoretical models
of pre-supernova evolution and the origin of the supernova types
We
request time to continue this successful project and require ACS
observations of future SNe which are discovered in galaxies closer than
20Mpc which have pre-explosion HST archive images available
This will
allow the SNe to be precisely positioned on the pre-explosion images
We
have set a final goal for this project of determining masses and types,
or setting restrictive mass-limits for 30 supernovae
FLIGHT OPERATIONS SUMMARY: Significant Spacecraft Anomalies: (The following are preliminary reports
of potential non-nominal performance that will be investigated
) HSTARS:
10502 - GSACQ(2,3,3) failed to RGA hold due to STOP flag for FGS 2
Initial indication was ROOL F2SSCEA flaggin low with a value of -10
24
at 15:28:06
The other mnemonics falgged at 15:28:20 (QF2STOPF) 15:28:22
(STOP) 15:28:27 (QF2SSDIF AND Q3SSDIF)
1st ODAB: V1 -2011
25, V2 -1533
54, V3 2349
67, RSS 3452
22
2nd ODAB: V1 -4
93, V2 3
69, V3 -0
79, RSS 6
21
MAP: V1 -0
86, V2 12
73, V3 -1
78, RSS 12
89 10503 - GSAcq(2,1,1) failed to RGA Hold Control
Upon acquisition of signal at 316/09:16:16, GSAcq(2,1,1) scheduled at
316/08:56:07 - 09:04:12 was observed to have failed to RGA Hold due to
stop flag (QF1STOPF) on FGS-1
Pre-acquisition OBADs attitude error
corrections not available
Post-acquisition OBAD/MAP had 3-axis (RSS)
value of 13
08 arcseconds
10504 - GSacq(2
3
3) failed due to scan step limit exceeded for FGS 2
At AOS (316/22:03:30) GSAcq (2,3,3), scheduled 316/21:44:02 had failed
to RGA control due to Scan Step Limit Exceeded on FGS 2
OBAD MAP RSS value = 13
63 a-s
10505 - OBAD Failed Identification
At 317/01:00:50, OBAD2 using trackers FHST-1 and FHST-2 failed
One 486
ESB message 1902 (OBAD Failed Identification) was received
OBAD2 had
(RSS) value of 26750
24 arcseconds
COMPLETED OPS REQUEST: (None) COMPLETED OPS NOTES: (None) FGS GSacq 28 25
FGS REacq 12 12
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