HST Calibration Reference Data System (CRDS)

 

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Latest References (under context hst_1221.pmap)

acs

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atodtab ---- Analog To Digital Lookup Table

biasfile ---- Bias Frame

bpixtab ---- Data Quality (Bad Pixel) Initialization Table

ccdtab ---- Ccd Parameters Table

cfltfile ---- Coronagraphic Spot Flat Image

crrejtab ---- Cosmic Ray Rejection Parameter Table

d2imfile ---- Column Correction File

darkfile ---- Dark Frame

dgeofile ---- Geometric Distortion Correction File

drkcfile ---- Cte Corrected Dark

flshfile ---- Post-flash Image

idctab ---- Image Distortion Correction File

imphttab ---- Photometry Keyword Table

mdriztab ---- Multidrizzle Parameter Table

mlintab ---- Mama Linearity Table

npolfile ---- Non-polynomial Offset

oscntab ---- Overscan Region Table

pctetab ---- Pixel CTE Correction Table

pfltfile ---- Pixel To Pixel Flat Field Image

satufile ---- Full-Well Saturation Level Map

shadfile ---- Shutter Shading Correction Image

snkcfile ---- Sink Pixel Correction Image

spottab ---- Spot Position Table

cos

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badttab ---- Bad Time Interval Table

bpixtab ---- Data Quality (Bad Pixel) Initialization Table

brftab ---- Baseline Reference Frame Table

brsttab ---- Burst Parameters Table

deadtab ---- Deadtime Reference Table

dgeofile ---- Geometric Distortion Correction File

disptab ---- Dispersion Relation Table

flatfile ---- Flat Field

fluxtab ---- Sensitivity Reference Files

geofile ---- Geometric Distortion Correction

gsagtab ---- Gain Sag Reference Table

hvdstab ---- Reference file that contains the slopes, y intercepts, and zero points of a high voltage-dependent sensitivity correction for COS FUV

hvtab ---- High Voltage Reference Table

lamptab ---- Template Calibration Lamp Spectra Table

phatab ---- Pulse Height Parameters Table

proftab ---- 2D Spectrum Profile Table

spottab ---- Spot Position Table

spwcstab ---- Spectroscopic WCS Parameters Table

tdstab ---- Time Dependent Sensitivity Table

tracetab ---- 1D Spectral Trace Table

twozxtab ---- Two-Zone Spectral Extraction Parameters Table

wcptab ---- Wavecal Parameters Reference Table

xtractab ---- 1-d Extraction Parameters Table

xwlkfile ---- X Walk Correction Lookup Reference Image

ywlkfile ---- Y Walk Correction Lookup Reference Image

nicmos

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darkfile ---- Dark Frame

flatfile ---- Flat Field

idctab ---- Image Distortion Correction File

illmfile ---- Illumination Pattern File

maskfile ---- Static Mask File

nlinfile ---- Detector Linearity Correction File

noisfile ---- Detector Read-noise File

pedsbtab ---- pedsbtab

phottab ---- Phototmetric Calibration Table

pmodfile ---- Persistence Model Files

pmskfile ---- Persistence Mask Files

rnlcortb ---- Nonlinearity Power Law Table

saacntab ---- SAACLEAN Task Parameters

saadfile ---- Post Saa Dark Assoc.

tdffile ---- Temperature Dependent Flat Fields

tempfile ---- Temperature-dependent Dark Reference File

zprattab ---- Nonlincor Zeropoint Scaling Table

stis

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apdestab ---- Aperture Description Table

apertab ---- Aperture Throughput Table

biasfile ---- Bias Frame

bpixtab ---- Data Quality (Bad Pixel) Initialization Table

ccdtab ---- Ccd Parameters Table

cdstab ---- Cross-disperser Scattering Table

crrejtab ---- Cosmic Ray Rejection Parameter Table

darkfile ---- Dark Frame

disptab ---- Dispersion Relation Table

echsctab ---- Echelle Scattering Table

exstab ---- Echelle Cross-Dispersion Scattering Table

gactab ---- Grating-Aperture Correction Table

halotab ---- Detectore Halo Table

idctab ---- Image Distortion Correction File

imphttab ---- Photometry Keyword Table

inangtab ---- Incidence Angle Correction Table

lamptab ---- Template Calibration Lamp Spectra Table

lfltfile ---- Low-order Flat Field Image

mlintab ---- Mama Linearity Table

mofftab ---- Mama Offset Correction Table

pctab ---- Photometric Correction Table

pfltfile ---- Pixel To Pixel Flat Field Image

phottab ---- Phototmetric Calibration Table

riptab ---- Echelle Ripple Table

sdctab ---- 2-d Spectrum Distortion Corrections

sptrctab ---- 1-d Spectrum Trace Table

srwtab ---- Scattering Reference Wavelength Table

tdctab ---- Nuv Dark Correction Table

tdstab ---- Time Dependent Sensitivity Table

teltab ---- Telescope Point Spread Function Table

wcptab ---- Wavecal Parameters Reference Table

xtractab ---- 1-d Extraction Parameters Table

synphot

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obsmodes ---- Observing Modes Table

thermal ---- Component Thermal Tables

thruput ---- Component Throughput Tables

tmctab ---- Master Component Lookup Table

tmgtab ---- Graph Table

tmttab ---- Thermal Component Lookup Table

wfc3

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atodtab ---- Analog To Digital Lookup Table

biacfile ---- CTE Bias Frame

biasfile ---- Bias Frame

bpixtab ---- Data Quality (Bad Pixel) Initialization Table

ccdtab ---- Ccd Parameters Table

crrejtab ---- Cosmic Ray Rejection Parameter Table

d2imfile ---- Column Correction File

darkfile ---- Dark Frame

dfltfile ---- Delta Flat Field Image

drkcfile ---- Cte Corrected Dark

flshfile ---- Post-flash Image

idctab ---- Image Distortion Correction File

imphttab ---- Photometry Keyword Table

mdriztab ---- Multidrizzle Parameter Table

nlinfile ---- Detector Linearity Correction File

npolfile ---- Non-polynomial Offset

oscntab ---- Overscan Region Table

pctetab ---- Pixel CTE Correction Table

pfltfile ---- Pixel To Pixel Flat Field Image

satufile ---- Full-Well Saturation Level Map

snkcfile ---- Sink Pixel Correction Image

wfpc2

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atodfile ---- Analog To Digital Converter Lookup Table

biasfile ---- Bias Frame

darkfile ---- Dark Frame

dgeofile ---- Geometric Distortion Correction File

flatfile ---- Flat Field

idctab ---- Image Distortion Correction File

maskfile ---- Static Mask File

offtab ---- Inter-chip Offsets Table

shadfile ---- Shutter Shading Correction Image

wf4tfile ---- WF4 Correction Table


Context History (more history, all contexts, build contexts)

Start Date Context Status Description
2025-03-18 hst_1221.pmap latest The ACS WFC bias, dark, CTE dark, and sink files were generated following the ACS WFC anneal on March 11, 2025, and should be used to calibrate ACS WFC observations taken between February 11, 2024 and March 11, 2025.
2025-03-10 hst_1220.pmap archived This SPOTTAB update includes new hot spot occurrences that have appeared since September 2022. The positions and locations of the hot spots were determined using an automated code that examines summed, weekly dark exposures in each segment. The COS team confirmed that all of the hot spots are real and also that none of the previous manually flagged spots are omitted. For cases where a hot spot is known to be active during a science exposure only, their positions and time frames were input manually. This SPOTTAB delivery is more comprehensive than those in the past.
2025-03-10 hst_1219.pmap archived These time-dependent WFC3 IR superdark reference files will affect certain IR data taken from HST Cycle 26, beginning on November 5, 2018, to the present. They will replace reference files that contain a small number of pixels that had values of NaN due to an edge case in which all input pixels were rejected for persistence or as bad pixels. A description of the process used to create these files is recorded in the history sections of their headers, as is a list of the individual dark images used to create each file. Additional information on the superdark creation process can be found in WFC3 ISRs by Sunnquist et al., 2019, and Pidgeon and Khandrika, 2024.
2025-03-06 hst_1218.pmap archived Delivering updated ACS WFC CTE-corrected darks, DKCs, that incorporate the new pixel-based serial CTE correction. This serial CTE correction was implemented in the latest version of CALACS, v10.4.0, in December 2024. In the standard calibration pipeline, the new serial, X-direction, CTE correction and the parallel, Y-direction, correction are both run by default on all full-frame WFC exposures obtained post-SM4, i.e., after May 2009. These new post-SM4, CTE-corrected darks utilize both the serial and parallel corrections for optimal calibration.