HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT # 4255 PERIOD COVERED: UT December 07, 2006 (DOY 341) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/HRC 10867 SAINTS - Supernova 1987A INTensive Survey SAINTS is a program to observe SN 1987A, the brightest supernova in 383 years, as it morphs into the youngest supernova remnant at age 19. HST is a unique tool for spatially-resolved observations of the many physical components of SN 1987A. A violent encounter is now underway between the fastest-m ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT # 4254 PERIOD COVERED: UT December 06, 2006 (DOY 340) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/HRC 10867 SAINTS - Supernova 1987A INTensive Survey SAINTS is a program to observe SN 1987A, the brightest supernova in 383 years, as it morphs into the youngest supernova remnant at age 19. HST is a unique tool for spatially-resolved observations of the many physical components of SN 1987A. A violent encounter is now underway between the fastest-m ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT # 4253 PERIOD COVERED: UT December 05, 2006 (DOY 339) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/HRC/WFC 10733 CCD Hot Pixel Annealing Hot pixel annealing will continue to be performed once every 4 weeks. The CCD TECs will be turned off and heaters will be activated to bring the detector temperatures to about +20C. This state will be held for approximately 6 hours, after which the heaters are turned off, the TECs turned on, and the CCDs return ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT # 4252 PERIOD COVERED: UT December 04, 2006 (DOY 338) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/HRC 11041 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. For cycle 15 ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT # 4251 PERIOD COVERED: UT DECEMBER 01,02,03, 2006 (DOY 335,336,337) 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 i ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT # 4250 PERIOD COVERED: UT November 30, 2006 (DOY 334) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED ACS/WFC 10521 ACS Imaging of a Unique Spitzer Field: Morphology of mid-IR Variable Sources We propose to observe the IRAC Dark Field, an extragalactic field 15 arcminutes in diameter near the north ecliptic pole, using 50 orbits of ACS imaging at I-band. This field is extraordinarily deep and is uniquely suited to detecting variable objects in the mid- ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT # 4249 PERIOD COVERED: UT November 29, 2006 (DOY 333) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED 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 ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT      # 4248 PERIOD COVERED: UT November 28, 2006 (DOY 332) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED 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 h ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT # 4247 PERIOD COVERED: UT November 27, 2006 (DOY 331) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED 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 ...Continue Reading

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - Continuing to collect World Class Science DAILY REPORT # 4246 PERIOD COVERED: UT November 22,23,24,25,26, 2006 (DOY 326,327,328,329,330) OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED NIC1/NIC2/NIC3 8793 NICMOS Post-SAA calibration - CR Persistence Part 4 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 b ...Continue Reading