Simulating ACQ/PEAK target acquisitions with the HST/FOS
| dc.creator | van der Marel, Roeland P. | |
| dc.date | 1995-05-21 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:19:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:19:48Z | |
| dc.description | A common target acquisition strategy with the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is to use a sequence of so-called ACQ/PEAK stages. Standard sequences and exposure times are given in the FOS Instrument Handbook (Keyes et al.~1995). The success of a given strategy is difficult to predict a priori for targets other than point sources. This paper describes software that simulates ACQ/PEAK acquisitions in a Monte-Carlo manner, for a variety of targets. The software is available from the FOS Instrument Scientists or from the author. It allows a proper quantitative assessment to be made of whether an acquisition will succeed, what exposure times should be used, and how the efficiency can be optimized. | |
| dc.description | 10 pages, uuencoded compressed PostScript, without Fig.1. Complete version at ftp://eku.ias.edu/pub/marel/hstfosacq.uu; To appear in the proceedings of the STScI Workshop: `Calibrating HST: Post Servicing Mission' | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9505095 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9505095 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/10009 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Simulating ACQ/PEAK target acquisitions with the HST/FOS | |
| dc.type | text |