The material contained in this Handbook is derived from ground tests and design information obtained by the IDT and the engineering team at JPL, and from on-orbit measurements. Other sources of information are listed below. A complete list of references appears on page 197.
HST Phase II Proposal Instructions, (Version 8.0, 15 December 1995).*1
Calibrating Hubble Space Telescope: Post Service Mission (1995).1
STSDAS Calibration Guide, (November 1991).1
The Reduction of WF/PC Camera Images, Lauer, T., P.A.S.P. 101, 445 (1989).
The Imaging Performance of the Hubble Space Telescope, Burrows, C. J., et. al., Ap. J. Lett., 369, L21 (1991).
Interface Control Document (ICD) 19, "PODPS to STSDAS"
Interface Control Document (ICD) 47, "PODPS to CDBS"
The Wide Field/Planetary Camera in The Space Telescope Observatory, J. Westphal and the WF/PC-1 IDT, IAU 18th General Assembly, Patras, NASA CP2244 (1982).
The WFPC2 Science Calibration Report, Pre-launch Version 1.2, J. Trauger, editor, (1993). [IDT calibration report]
White Paper for WFPC2 Far-Ultraviolet Science, J. T. Clarke and the WFPC2 IDT (1992)1.
The Performance and Calibration of WFPC2 on the Hubble Space Telescope, Holtzman, J., et al., P.A.S.P., 107, 156 (1995).
The Photometric Performance and Calibration of WFPC2, Holtzman, J., et al., P.A.S.P., 107, 1065 (1995).
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