Are there documents other than the WFPC2 Instrument Handbook that would provide useful information for preparing a proposal?
The paper: Performance and Calibration of WFPC2 (Post Script, 5.0 Mbytes) describes the WFPC2 IDT’s (Instrument Definition Team) understanding of the instrument as of July, 1994. It discusses many instrumental effects including the charge transfer problem (which can affect photometry), the hot pixel growth rate, and astrometric calibration. The IDT has also prepared the document: The Photometric Performance and Calibration of WFPC2 (Post Script, 4.2 Mbytes), which describes conversions to the Landolt UBVRI photometric system and the time dependency of the UV throughput, and provides a photometric calibration “cookbook”. Also see recent issues of the Space Telescope Analysis Newsletter, which provides updated WFPC2 information on a monthly basis.
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