Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
Jan 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998baas...30q.764c&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society Meeting, 191, #128.06
Physics
Optics
Scientific paper
The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) is to be installed in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during the third HST servicing mission in December 1999. The ACS comprises three cameras each designed to achieve specific goals. The first, the Wide Field Camera, will be a high throughput, wide field (200" x 204"), visible to nar-IR camera that is half critically sampled at 500 nm. The second, the High Resolution Camera (HRC), is critically sampled at 500 nm, and has a 26" x 29" field of view. The HRC optical path includes a coronagraph which will improve the HST's contrast near bright objects by a factor of 10. The third camera is a far ultraviolet, Solar-Blind Camera (SBC),with a field of 26" x 29". ACS will increase HST's capability for imaging surveys and discovery by at least a factor of 10. We give an overview of the ACS design and discuss image the quality of the optics and the performance of the CCD and MAMA detectors. The plans for the GTO science program are reviewed, and specific scientific capabilities of the instrument reviewed.
Bartko Frank
Bely Pierre
Broadhurst Tom
Brown Bailey
Burrows Chris
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