Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope
Technical Reports by STScI

The reports listed below document technical work on the WFIRST Mission carried out or led by STScI. Please check out also the Document Library, the listing of all mission documents by project partners, and the listing of WFIRST-related publications extracted dynamically from the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). A complete overview of the mission, as currently envisioned, is presented in the Final Report of the WFIRST-AFTA Science Definition Team.

2016

• WFIRST-STScI-TR1603: Slitless Grism Spectroscopy with WFIRST: Pointing Reconstruction from Dispersed Images (Dixon et al.)
• WFIRST-STScI-TR1604: Guide Star Availability for the WFIRST Auxiliary FGS using GSC2.3 (Nelan et al.)
• WFIRST-STScI-TR1601: Data Post-Processing and Algorithm Development for the WFIRST-AFTA Coronagraph: FY2015 Report (Ygouf et al.)

2015

• WFIRST-STScI-TR1507: WFIRST Scheduling Studies: Year One Status Report (Giuliano et al.)
• WFIRST-STScI-TR1506: Slitless Grism Spectroscopy with WFIRST: Observing Modes and Strategies (Casertano et al.)
• WFIRST-STScI-TR1505: Active compensation of aperture discontinuities for WFIRST- AFTA: analytical and numerical comparison of propagation methods and preliminary results with an AFTA like pupil (Mazoyer et al.)
• WFIRST-STScI-TR1504: WFIRST-AFTA Coronagraphic Operations: Lessons Learned from the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (Debes et al.)
• WFIRST-STScI-TR1503: Data Post Processing and Algorithm Development for the WFIRST-AFTA Coronagraph: First Progress Report (Ygouf et al.)
• WFIRST-STScI-TR1502: Planning for the Analysis of WFIRST-AFTA Grism Data: A Review of Current and Future Slitless Spectroscopy Software and Data Analysis Approaches (MacKenty et al.)
• WFIRST-STScI-TR1501: WFIRST-AFTA Guide Stars and the 2MASS Point Source Catalog (Nelan et al.)