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The photometric performance and calibration of the Hubble Space Telescope advanced camera for surveys
Marco Sirianni,Marco Sirianni,Marco Sirianni,Myungkook J. Jee,Narciso Benítez,Narciso Benítez,John P. Blakeslee,André R. Martel,Gerhardt R. Meurer,M. Clampin,G. De Marchi,G. De Marchi,G. De Marchi,Holland C. Ford,Ronald L. Gilliland,George F. Hartig,Garth D. Illingworth,J. Mack,Wm. J. McCann +18 more
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In this paper, the photometric calibration of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) was presented, and a significant amount of data has been collected to characterize the on-orbit performance of the three channels.Abstract:
We present the photometric calibration of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The ACS was installed in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in 2002 March. It comprises three cameras: the Wide Field Channel (WFC), optimized for deep near‐IR survey imaging programs; the High Resolution Channel (HRC), a high‐resolution imager that fully samples the HST point‐spread function (PSF) in the visible; and the Solar Blind Channel (SBC), a far‐UV imager. A significant amount of data has been collected to characterize the on‐orbit performance of the three channels. We give here an overview of the performance and calibration of the two CCD cameras (WFC and HRC) and a description of the best techniques for reducing ACS CCD data. The overall performance is as expected from prelaunch testing of the camera. Surprises were a better‐than‐predicted sensitivity in the visible and near‐IR for both the WFC and HRC and an unpredicted dip in the HRC UV response at ∼3200 A. On‐orbit observations of spectrophotometric stand...read more
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The Dartmouth Stellar Evolution Database
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TL;DR: The Dartmouth Stellar Evolution Database as mentioned in this paper is a collection of stellar evolution tracks and isochrones that spans a range of [Fe/H] from 2.5 to +0.5, [α/Fe] from 0.245 to 0.40, and initial He mass fractions from Y = 0.1 and 4 M
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New Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries of Type Ia Supernovae at z ≥ 1: Narrowing Constraints on the Early Behavior of Dark Energy*
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The Hubble Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey. V. Improving the Dark-energy Constraints above z > 1 and Building an Early-type-hosted Supernova Sample
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