Cosmic Origins Spectrograph Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17

1.2 Preparing Proposals and Observing with COS

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1.2.1 The STScI Spectrographs Branch and COS Team

Table 1.1 lists the COS contacts in the Instrument Division at STScI. Observers seeking more detailed information about the COS instrument performance or operations should contact one of the COS instrument scientists.

Table 1.1: COS Instrument Division Contacts at STScI

Instrument Scientist	E-mail	Phone
Alessandra Aloisi	aloisi@stsci.edu	410-338-4519
Linda Dressel	dressel@stsci.edu	410-338-4376
Scott Friedman	friedman@stsci.edu	410-338-4906
Charles (Tony) Keyes	keyes@stsci.edu	410-338-4975
David Soderblom	soderblom@stsci.edu	410-338-4543

Figure 1.1:
 

1.2.2 The STScI Help Desk

Observers may also direct questions to the Help Desk at STScI. To contact the Help Desk,

• Send E-mail to: help@stsci.edu
• Phone: 410-338-1082
• Inside the USA you may call toll free: 1-800-544-8125.

1.2.3 COS web pages and supporting information

Resources used in the preparation of this document include COS OP-01 (Morse et al. 2002, Rev. 17 and references therein) and the STIS Instrument Handbook (Kim Ouijano et al. 2003, v7.0). We thank the COS IDT members for their assistance with the preparation of this document, particularly Cynthia Froning, Jim Green, and Steven Penton. Additional COS information and planning tools, including a link to a preliminary spectral simulator, can be found on the COS Web page at:

 http://www.stsci.edu/hst/cos.

1.2.4 Non-proprietary COS data

This Handbook is being written before COS is installed in HST and therefore no on-orbit data yet exist. However, there are many calibration datasets taken during testing on the ground. Readers wishing to examine those data should go to the MAST Web page at http://archive.stsci.edu.