WFC3
(Wide Field Camera 3)
(general purpose camera/spectroscope on HST)
WFC3 (for Wide Field Camera 3) is the current
general-purpose camera on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST),
installed in 2009 to replace the earlier WFPC2.
It covers visible light and some nearby ultraviolet (UV)
and infrared (IR).
Its field of view is 2.7×2.7 arcminutes for visible
and UV, sensing with 4096×4096 CCD pixels,
and a bit smaller for IR, with 1024×1024 (larger) pixels.
It offers ~70 filters with varying bandwidths, and
offers three grisms, G280, G102, and G141
for slitless spectrography.
(instrument,spectrograph)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Field_Camera_3
https://www.stsci.edu/hst/instrumentation/wfc3
https://www.nasa.gov/content/hubble-space-telescope-wide-field-camera-3
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003hstc.conf..383M/abstract
Referenced by pages:
Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS)
Faint Infrared Grism Survey (FIGS)
grism
Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF)
PHAT
STARSMOG
Ultraviolet Hubble Ultra-deep Field (UVUDF)
UVCANDELS
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