Version 5.1
July 2001

Space Telescope
Imaging Spectrograph
Instrument Handbook
for Cycle 11

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Revision History

Version	Date	Editor
1.0	June 1996	Stefi Baum
2.0	June 1998	Nolan Walborn and Stefi Baum
3.0	June 1999	Kailash Sahu
4.0	June 2000	Claus Leitherer
4.1	July 2000	Claus Leitherer
5.0	June 2001	Claus Leitherer
5.1	July 2001	Claus Leitherer

Authorship

This document is written and maintained by the Spectrographs Group in the Science and Instrument Support Department of STScI. At the time of the writing of this manual the Group includes the following members, all of whom contributed directly to the writing of this Handbook: James Davies, Rosa Díaz-Miller, Ron Downes, Linda Dressel, Brian Espey, Paul Goudfrooij, Phil Hodge (honorary), Jessica Kim Quijano, Jerry Kriss, Claus Leitherer, Grace Mitchell, Bahram Mobasher, Mike Potter, Charles Proffitt, Kailash Sahu, Dick Shaw, David Stys, Jeff Valenti, and Nolan Walborn.