Fine Guidance Sensor Instrument Handbook for Cycle 14

Acknowledgments

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The contact person for the STScI FGS Program is Ed Nelan (nelan@stsci.edu).

Many dedicated colleagues have contributed time and expertise to the STScI FGS Astrometry Program over so many years. (and in fact, were the FGS Astrometry Program). We wish to express our sincerest gratitude for their essential support of this program (in the hope it continues through many more years): Linda Abramowicz-Reed and Kevin Chisolm at BFGoodrich, the members of the Space Telescope Astrometry Team, especially Otto Franz and Larry Wasserman at Lowell Observatory, Fritz Benedict and Barbara McArthur with the University of Texas at Austin, and Denise Taylor, Sherie Holfeltz, and John Hershey at STScI. We also wish to thank Merle Reinhart, Vicki Balzano, and George Chapman with the commanding and implementation teams at STScI for their careful shepherding of our astrometry science and calibrations.

STScI would also like to thank BFGoodrich, in particular Kevin Chisholm and Linda Abramowicz-Reed for their invaluable assistance during the adjustment of the Articulating Mirror Assembly (AMA) to re-optimize both FGS1r and FGS2r. And not least, we would like to acknowledge that Chris Ftaclas originated and developed the conceptual basis of the AMA.

We would also like to thank Susan Rose and Steve Hulbert at STScI for their invaluable help with the preparation and publication of this Instrument Handbook. Without their patience and guidance, this Handbook could not have come together.

Finally, we thank Alain Fresneau for establishing the astrometry program at STScI.

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