Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph: 2-Dimensional Scattered Light Correction Algorithm

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Dec 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000aas...197.1202l&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 197th AAS Meeting, #12.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1418

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The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) has four ultraviolet echelle spectrographic modes all subject to scattered light. The current pipeline reduction routine, CALSTIS, uses a one-dimensional algorithm to estimate the in-order scattered light from the background observed between the spectral orders. Using this algorithm, the error in the cores of saturated interstellar lines can be nearly 10% of the continuum level at 1200 Angstroms. We describe a new iterative algorithm which is applicable to other echelle spectrographs. The algorithm uses a two-dimensional model of the scattered light including the telescope point spread function, the echelle grating scatter, the cross-disperser grating scatter, and the detector and STIS point spread functions. This new algorithm reduces the errors found in the current STIS pipeline reduction algorithm by at least a factor of ten. The algorithm has been implemented by the Space Telescope Science Institute as an IRAF task and is currently available for download by the astronomical community (see 2000AAS...1971203, ``Performance of a New Algorithm to Remove Scattered Light from STIS Echelle Spectra," also at this meeting).

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