HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4918 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 26 - 5am August 27, 2009 (DOY 238/09:00z-239/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/WFC3 11465 ACS CCD Monitoring and Calibration for WFC3 This program is a smaller version of our routine CCD monitoring program, designed to run throughout SMOV, after which our regular Cycle 17 CAL proposal will begin. This program obtains the bias and dark frames needed to generate referenc ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4917 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 25 - 5am August 26, 2009 (DOY 237/09:00z-238/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/WFC3 11013 Continued M31 Monitoring for Black Hole X-ray Nova We have been caring out a Chandra (GO+GTO) and HST (GO) program to find Black Hole X-ray Nova (BHXN) and their optical counterparts in M31 for several years. To date we have found >2 dozen BHXN and 3 HST optical counterpa ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4916 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 24 - 5am August 25, 2009 (DOY 236/09:00z-237/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/WFC3 11465 ACS CCD Monitoring and Calibration for WFC3 This program is a smaller version of our routine CCD monitoring program, designed to run throughout SMOV, after which our regular Cycle 17 CAL proposal will begin. This program obtains the bias and dark frames needed to generate referenc ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4915 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 21 - 5am August 24, 2009 (DOY 233/09:00z-236/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFC3/UVI 11934 UVIS G280 Flux Calibration Flux calibration, image displacement, and spectral trace of the UVIS G280 grism will be established using observations of the HST flux standard start GD71. Accompanying direct exposures will provide the image displacement measurements and wavelength zero ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4914 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 20 - 5am August 21, 2009 (DOY 232/09:00z-233/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/WFC3 11465 ACS CCD Monitoring and Calibration for WFC3 This program is a smaller version of our routine CCD monitoring program, designed to run throughout SMOV, after which our regular Cycle 17 CAL proposal will begin. This program obtains the bias and dark frames needed to generate re ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4913 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 19 - 5am August 20, 2009 (DOY 231/09:00z-232/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/WFC3 11465 ACS CCD Monitoring and Calibration for WFC3 This program is a smaller version of our routine CCD monitoring program, designed to run throughout SMOV, after which our regular Cycle 17 CAL proposal will begin. This program obtains the bias and dark frames needed to generate referenc ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4912 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 18 - 5am August 19, 2009 (DOY 230/09:00z-231/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/WFC3 11465 ACS CCD Monitoring and Calibration for WFC3 This program is a smaller version of our routine CCD monitoring program, designed to run throughout SMOV, after which our regular Cycle 17 CAL proposal will begin. This program obtains the bias and dark frames needed to generate referenc ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT       #4911 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 17 - 5am August 18, 2009 (DOY 229/09:00z-230/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED COS/FUV 11492 FUV Sensitivity This activity confirms COS sensitivity versus wavelength over the entire observable spectrum for all FUV gratings and central wavelength settings. Obtain quick look sensitivity visit early in SMOV. Later, after wavelength calibration is verified, perform a pre ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4910 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 14 - 5am August 17, 2009 (DOY 226/09:00z-229/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED WFC3/UV 11908 Cycle 17: UVIS Bowtie Monitor Ground testing revealed an intermittent hysteresis type effect in the UVIS detector (both CCDs) at the level of ~1%, lasting hours to days. Initially found via an unexpected bowtie-shaped feature in flatfield ratios, subsequent lab tests on similar e2v ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      #4909 PERIOD COVERED: 5am August 13 - 5am August 14, 2009 (DOY 225/09:00z-226/09:00z) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED COS 11473 COS NUV Imaging Performance Verification This activity is designed to verify the performance of the COS/NUV imaging mode. In particular, the PSF quality will be assessed and the plate scale will be measured. The throughput of the MIRRORA with both the PSA and BOA will be fully calibrat ...Continue Reading