Technical Memos

Internal Reports prepared by the Treasury Project Team at the University of Minnesota.
These describe our processing techniques, definitions, mathematical considerations,
and other details.

(See also Publications)

1. Our Adopted Scheme for Subpixel Modeling

Kris Davidson, University of Minnesota

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2. The STIS/CCD Cross-Dispersion Point Spread Function

John C. Martin, University of Minnesota

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3. Naming Convention for Data Files

Matt Gray, University of Minnesota

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4. Release Notes for Version 1.0 of the Database

John C. Martin, University of Minnesota

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5. Naming Cross-Reference of Old to New File Names in the Database

Matt Gray, University of Minnesota

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6. A Model for the Distribution of Scattered/Diffuse Light on the STIS CCD in Spectroscopic Mode

John C. Martin, University of Minnesota

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7. The Meaning of "ERR" HDU's or Noise Files

Kris Davidson, University of Minnesota

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8. Identifying and Patching Overexposed Pixels in STIS CCD Data

John C. Martin, University of Minnesota

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9. Spectra Extractions with IRAF

Michael Koppelman, University of Minnesota

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10. Removal of the H_alpha Ghost Image From STIS CCD Data

John C. Martin, University of Minnesota

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11. Release Notes For Version 1.2 of the Database

John C. Martin, Kris Davidson (University of Minnesota), K. Ishibashi (MIT), Roberta M. Humpreys (University of Minnesota)

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12. A Check on the Wavelength Calibration

John C. Martin, (University of Minnesota)

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13. STIS/CCD VAriable Fringing Near 9750 AA

John C. Martin, (University of Minnesota)

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14. General release notes for Gemini GMOS spectra

John C. Martin (University of Illinois Springfield), Andrea Mehner, (University of Minnesota)

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HST Treasury Program Observation Plan (c. 2002)

This is just a summary of the provisional observing plan, merely to suggest how complex this project is.

About 72 orbits are used altogether, but, unlike most HST programs, we get many observations in each orbit, some of them need to be very carefully optimized, and some are unconventional in nature. Hence the plan is more difficult than that of, say, a more normal large program with 300 orbits.

Eventually we hope to include the entire observing plan (HST "Phase II Proposal") at this site, containing the actual list of observations. It will be many, many pages long.

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MAST Archive README file

This is a copy of the flat text README file delivered to the STScI MAST archive which describes the data we delivered to them

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