An Improved Distortion Solution for the Hubble Space Telescope’s WFPC2

By Jay Anderson, Ivan R. King. 2002

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Instrumentation

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Jay Anderson
2. A. Milone
3. Michael C. Liu
4. G. Piotto
5. T. Dupuy
6. Aaron Dotter
7. A. Renzini
8. L. Bedin

In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Jay Anderson
2. Michael C. Liu
3. T. Dupuy
4. L. Bedin
5. Michael E. Brown
6. D. Ragozzine
7. G. Piotto
8. R. P. van der Marel

In Instrumentation

1. Jay Anderson
2. Michael C. Liu
3. T. Dupuy
4. A. Milone
5. B. Bowler
6. G. Piotto
7. L. Bedin
8. A. Renzini

Citations in the corpus

• Astrometry and Photometry with HST WFC3. II. Improved Geometric-Distortion Corrections for 10 Filters of the UVIS Channel (2011, methodology): “We followed the prescriptions given in Anderson & King (2003) for WFPC2 and subsequently used by the same authors to derive the GD correction for the ACS/HRC (Anderson & King 2006a) and for the ACS/WFC (AK06).”
• The Proper Motion of the Large Magellanic Cloud Using HST (2005, background): “…(Geha et al. 2003; Dobrzycki et al. 2002, 2003); furthermore, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST ) has been shown to be very stable for astrometry (Anderson & King 2003), and in particular the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has higher resolution and is better calibrated and more stable than…”
• ORBITS AND MASSES OF THE SATELLITES OF THE DWARF PLANET HAUMEA (2003 EL61) (2009, methodology): “The distortion correction of Anderson & King (2003) for WFPC2 is smaller than our error bars for our narrow angle astrometry and was not included.”
• SPECTRA AND HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE LIGHT CURVES OF SIX TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE AT 0.511 < z < 1.12 AND THE UNION2 COMPILATION (2010, methodology): “Unfortunately, using objects from the remaining three chips for the alignment did not lead to improved accuracy, which is probably due to small movements of the chips between exposures (Anderson & King 2003).”
• PLANETS AROUND LOW-MASS STARS (PALMS). IV. THE OUTER ARCHITECTURE OF M DWARF PLANETARY SYSTEMS (2014, methodology): “…downhill simplex algorithm was used to fit for relative x/y offsets (in pixel coordinates) between the two systems, a relative magnification scale for HiCIAO, an overall rotation of HiCIAO, and 18 coefficients comprising a 2-dimensional, third-order polynomial fit following Anderson & King (2003).”
• The ACS survey of Galactic globular clusters. XII. Photometric binaries along the main sequence (2011, methodology): “The WFPC2 data are analyzed by using the programs and the techniques described in Anderson & King (1999, 2000, 2003).”
• Stellar Proper Motions in the Galactic Bulge from Deep Hubble Space Telescope ACS WFC Photometry (2008, methodology): “The observations used for the ePSF of Anderson & King (2006; see also Anderson & King 2003) provided a 4 times supersampled, spatially dependent supersampled PSF model in _ flt space, as well as a distortion solution that transforms raw positions into positions on the sky.”
• THE HAWAII INFRARED PARALLAX PROGRAM. I. ULTRACOOL BINARIES AND THE L/T TRANSITION, (2012, methodology): “We note that we also tried fitting for the distortion from our data alone, since dithered images can in principle constrain any nonlinear terms (e.g., Anderson & King 2003).”