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arXiv:astro-ph/0512102 (astro-ph)
[Submitted on 5 Dec 2005]

Title:Slitless spectroscopy with the Advanced Camera for Surveys

Authors:M. Kuemmel, S. S. Larsen, J. R. Walsh (ESO / ST-ECF)
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Abstract: The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) enables low resolution slitless spectroscopic imaging in the three channels. The most-used modes are grism imaging with the WFC and the HRC at a resolution of 40 and 24 A/pixel, respectively. In the far UV there are two prisms for the SBC and a prism for the HRC in the near-UV. An overview of the slitless spectroscopic modes of the ACS is presented together with the advantages of slitless spectroscopy from space. The methods and strategies developed to establish and maintain the wavelength and flux calibration for the different channels are outlined. Since many slitless spectra are recorded on one deep exposure, pipeline science quality extraction of spectra is a necessity. To reduce ACS slitless data, the aXe spectral extraction software has been developed at the ST-ECF. aXe was designed to extract large numbers of ACS slitless spectra in an unsupervised way based on an input catalogue derived from a companion direct image. In order to handle dithered slitless spectra, drizzle, well-known in the imaging domain, has been applied. For ACS grism images, the aXedrizzle technique resamples 2D spectra from individual images to deep, rectified images before extracting the 1D spectra. aXe also provides tools for visual assessment of the extracted spectra and examples are presented.
Comments: 10 pages, incl. 8 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the 2005 HST Calibration Workshop, STScI, 2005 (eds. A. Koekemoer, P. Goudfrooij and L. Dressel)
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:astro-ph/0512102
  (or arXiv:astro-ph/0512102v1 for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0512102

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From: Soeren S. Larsen [view email]
[v1] Mon, 5 Dec 2005 13:06:40 UTC (286 KB)
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