Version 7.0
October 2003

Space Telescope
Imaging Spectrograph
Instrument Handbook
for Cycle 13

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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
6.0	October 2002	Charles Proffitt
7.0	October 2003	Jessica Kim Quijano and Bahram Mobasher

Authorship

This document is written and maintained by the Spectrographs Group in the Instruments Division 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: Tom Brown, Ivo Busko (honorary), James Davies, Rosa Díaz-Miller, Linda Dressel, Paul Goudfrooij, Phil Hodge (honorary), Jessica Kim Quijano, Jesús Maíz-Apellániz, Bahram Mobasher, Mike Potter (honorary), Charles Proffitt, Kailash Sahu (honorary), David Stys, Jeff Valenti (honorary), and Nolan Walborn (honorary).

Citation

In publications, refer to this document as:

Kim Quijano, J., et al. 2003, "STIS Instrument Handbook", Version 7.0, (Baltimore: STScI).