+----------------------------------------------------------+ | HST Spectroscopy | STScI Analysis Newsletter | STIS/GHRS/FOS | April 2004 +----------------------------------------------------------+ Visit the "New in the Last 45 Days" section of the STIS website at http://www.stsci.edu/hst/stis for new information about STIS. This and previous issues of the STAN can be found at http://www.stsci.edu/hst/stis/documents/newsletters. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Cycle 13 Phase II Update for STIS The Phase II Update provides the latest information regarding STIS performance and policies which are relevant for the preparation of Cycle 13 Phase II proposals. The items presented here include: -New versions of STIS Exposure Time Calculators -New aperture locations -Supported and Available ACQ/PEAK modes Updates to MAMA Distortion Corrections Significant changes that have been made to the IDCTAB files for MAMA imaging are described; a warning is given to users who retrieved NUV MAMA imaging data from the archive between 2004-Mar-31 and 2004-Apr-06. New Time-Dependent Sensitivity Corrections Recent updates to the calibration of time-dependent changes in STIS sensitivity, and the implementation of the corrections for these changes in SYNPHOT and the HST calibration pipeline, are described. CALSTIS recent releases CALSTIS 2.16 was released on 2004-Feb-26 within the STSDAS v3.2 release. Note that the latest version of CALSTIS in the OTFR pipeline is 2.15b, which was installed in the OTFR pipeline on 2003-Dec-16. Please refer to the 2.16 and 2.15b release notes for details on the improvements included in each release. +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Need help? http://www.stsci.edu/hst/stis/help.html +----------------------------------------------------------+ | To subscribe or unsubscribe to the STAN, send a message | to majordomo@stsci.edu with a blank subject line and | the following in the body: [un]subscribe stis_news +----------------------------------------------------------+ | The Space Telescope Science Institute is operated by the | Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, | Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555. +----------------------------------------------------------+
