STScI Annual Report 2002: A Living Mission

34 teams
Teams Outside
The TREASURY PROGRAM ADVISORY COMMITTEE
advises the Director on the Hubble Treasury Program by
identifying scientific opportunities that merit large investments
of Hubble time and fostering multidisciplinary,
multiobservatory collaborations.
The OPO EXTERNAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
drawn from OPO’s diverse user community of
astronomers, educators, journalists, and planetarium
and science center directors—provides feedback on OPO
products and services and counsels OPO management
on ways to advance its mission, goals, and objectives.
The SPACE TELESCOPE INSTITUTE COUNCIL, our
primary management oversight committee, is selected
by the AURA Member Representatives and reports to
the AURA Board of Directors.
The SPACE TELESCOPE ADVISORY COUNCIL is
available to the Director for advice on any subject related
to the Hubble science program.
The INSTITUTE VISITING COMMITTEE evaluates the
management productivity, working environment of the
Institute, and the morale of the Institute staff and reports
to NASA through AURA.
The SPACE TELESCOPE USERS COMMITTEE
reviews the scientific utility of Hubble Space Telescope
and the quality of the Institute’s services and makes
recommendations to both the Director and the NASA
Project Scientist.
The TELESCOPE ALLOCATION COMMITTEE evaluates
proposals for observing time and proposals for archival
research that request funding and makes recommendations
to the Director, including the allocation of Hubble
orbits to selected observing programs.
The MAST USERS GROUP provides advice to increase
the scientific utility and productivity of the Multimission
Archive at Space Telescope and recommends priorities for
new services, data sets, and interarchive collaborations.
The WFC3 SCIENCE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
provides scientific oversight and direction on choices,
like filter selection, and trades during the development
and testing of the Wide Field Camera 3.
The JWST SCIENCE WORKING GROUP, consisting of
the first users of the James Webb Space Telescope and
including Institute staff members, advises NASA on the
scientific priorities for the mission.
Teams Inside/Outside
The FINANCIAL REVIEW COMMITTEE reviews all
budgets submitted by General Observers and Archival
Researchers and recommends appropriate funding to
the Director.
The SERVICING MISSION OBSERVATORY
VERIFICATION WORKING GROUP—consisting of
Institute scientists and engineers, NASA engineers, and
instrument developers—defines, designs, and executes
in-orbit verification activities to commission the Hubble
observatory after servicing missions.
The COS OPERATIONS WORKING GROUP, including
engineers and scientists from the Cosmic Origins
Spectrograph team, Ball Aerospace, NASA, and the
Institute, sets the requirements for the flight and ground
software needed to operate the instrument.
The COS CALIBRATION WORKING GROUP, including
engineers and scientists from the Cosmic Origins
Spectrograph (COS) and Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic
Explorer teams, Ball Aerospace, NASA, and the Institute,
discusses COS calibration issues, sets calibration pipeline
requirements, and advises on implementation
aspects, such as keywords, data formats, reference files,
and reuse and sharing of algorithms and code from
previous applications.
The WFC3 OPERATIONS WORKING GROUP, including
engineers and scientists from Ball Aerospace, NASA,
and the Institute, sets the requirements for the flight
and ground software needed to operate the Wide Field
Camera 3 instrument.
The WFC3 INSTRUMENT CALIBRATION TEAM, with
scientific leadership from the Institute and including engineers
and scientists from NASA, Ball Aerospace, and the
Institute, is developing the plans and procedures for the
ground testing and pre-launch scientific calibration of
Wide Field Camera 3.
The ACS PHOTOMETRIC CALIBRATION WORKING
GROUP, including members of the Advanced Camera for
Surveys Instrument Definition Team and representatives
from other instrument groups, studies issues that affect
the photometric performance and overall calibration of
the ACS.