Associations of NICMOS and STIS Exposures: an extension of the HST data processing pipeline
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Both of the Science Instruments scheduled for installation into HST during the Second Servicing Mission pose new expectations and requirements on the processing and archiving of their data. In this ISR we discuss a central aspect of the data handling for the NICMOS and STIS SIs -the association of exposures. The association concept permits the use of multiple exposures in combination to produce data products. Examples include the identification and rejection of cosmic ray events, the wavelength calibration of STIS spectra, and the measurement of the background for thermally limited NICMOS images.
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