2005/12/05 by J. R. Walsh, Walsh, J. R., M. Kuemmel +3
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Calibration and Measurement Techniques #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0512100
6 pages, incl. 4 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the 2005 HST Calibration Workshop, STScI, 2005 (eds. A. Koekemoer, P. Goudfrooij and L. Dressel)
arxiv created 2005/12/05 · openalex publication_date 2005/12/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The software package aXe provides comprehensive spectral extraction facilities for all the slitless modes of the ACS, covering the Wide Field Channel (WFC) grism, the High Resolution Channel (HRC) grism and prism and the Solar Blind Channel (SBC) prisms. The latest developments to the package apply to all ACS slitless modes leading to improved spectral extraction. Many thousands of spectra may be present on a single deep ACS WFC G800L image such that overlap of spectra is a significant nuisance. Two methods of estimating the contamination of any given spectrum by its near neighbours have been developed: one is based on the catalogue of objects on the direct image; another uses the flux information on multi-filter direct images. An improvement to the extracted spectra can also result from weighted extraction and the Horne optimal extraction algorithm has been implemented in aXe. A demonstrated improvement in signal-to-noise can be achieved. These new features are available in aXe-1.5 with the STSDAS 3.4 release.