1 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 WFC3 TIPS July 19, 2007

2 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 Summary WFC3 halfway through Thermal Vacuum Test #2 –Team is performing excellently and test is on schedule –Several thermal issues discovered which will require modifications –Internal calibration lamps have multiple problems –Great progress on closing out liens from 2004 TV test –Currently 39 days into the maximum 72 day T/V-2 test (SES chamber must be vacated and certified for the next HST test by 9/1/2007) Flight detector development –Two outstanding IR flight detectors in packaging flow at Ball with installation of one into the instrument in Dec 2007 –Unresolved problem with the Thermal Electric Coolers (TEC) for the UVIS CCD detectors Recovery plan in place but significant schedule concerns

3 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 WFC3 TV-2 Environmental Profile

4 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 Test Profile Segment Details - Indicates Test Completed

5 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 Verified operation of radiator heaters. Great progress in validating thermal model. Heat pipes all function as expected in 1g environment. Verified instrument cold start on both sides. Thermal performance of UVIS-2 has been stable and near nominal (compared with pre-anomaly UVIS-1). Achieved 145  K on IR FPA in Hot and Cold environments. Throughput measurements show nominal optical performance. No SOFA errors (this issues appears to be resolved). Highlights

6 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 System Throughput with UVIS-2 UVIS-2 UV QE better than predicted; visible advantage vs. UVIS-1 inferred from ambient cal was an artifact of temperature and stray light Response of both CCDs comparable to UVIS-1 chip 1 Optics throughput appears to have held up well since 2004 run Preliminary analysis by Tom Brown

7 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 Excellent Read Noise and Dark Current w/UVIS-2 Like UVIS-1, UVIS-2 demonstrates “goal” level read noise of 3 e - rms, vs. spec of 4; very important in UV 5-10% noise penalty observed for the greater dynamic range of gain = 1.5 setting; will assess whether it is worthwhile to support both settings Gain = 1 e - /DNUVIS-2 (T/V #2)UVIS-1 (T/V #1) Amp A (ambient) Amp B (ambient) Amp C (ambient) Amp D (ambient) Gain = 1.5 e - /DN Amp A Amp B Amp C Amp D Dark is <1 e/pix/hr at -79C Preliminary T/V 2 analysis by Sylvia Baggett

8 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 IR Throughput Matches Component Measurements Remarkably Well No sign of the 10-15% deficit vs. component predictions seen in T/V 1 Indicates protected-silver mirror coatings are healthy This is the run with the best controlled background. Earlier runs came out even higher (good), but with wider spread than we have explained (puzzling) – still investigating. Preliminary analysis by Tom Brown

9 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 Encouraging Initial Read Noise Results for IR Detector RMS noise is in good agreement with previous results Must carefully assess whether there is any significant correlated noise (some intermittent fixed pattern noise has been seen – perhaps DN) Preliminary T/V 2 analysis by Bryan Hilbert Noise (e- rms) DCL Ball Acceptance Test T/V 2 Quad Quad Quad Quad

10 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 Alignment Stability in Spec for Cold Orbital Cycling Negligible drifts in response to orbital cycling in cold environment Note that cold cycling case is more benign than hot cycling (not yet tested) Image Position vs. Time Thru 6 Cold Orbital Cycles

11 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 Alignment Stability in Spec for Slew in Cold Environment Spec is <10 mas in 200 minutes for UVIS; <20 mas for IR Cold environment again is likely more benign than hot environment equivalent Image Position vs. Time Thru Slew in Cold Environment

12 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 Overnight Results for Hot Case Meets spec in IR UVIS is ~20mas over 3 hours (spec is 10mas) Watching long term drift – Realism of the test conditions not yet understood Plot by S. Baggett & D. Karakla

13 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 IR Grisms Are Now Right! Grisms are properly oriented (0.6° and <0.5° off vs. ~2° tolerance and previous 82° error – well done team! Cross-dispersion profile of continuum spectra and monochromatic images shows good FWHM – properly focused High thermal background seen in T/V 1 with previous G141 grism is now gone with added red blocking IR thermal backgrounds thru filters in general are in good agreement with Massimo Robberto model – project to nominal performance in HST OTA environment G102 Continuum Spectrum G141 Continuum Spectrum Analysis by Howard Bushouse

14 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 Hardware Issues with Science Impacts IR 6-stage control –Out-of-spec control stability is problematic for a high dark-rate device such as FPA129, given the strong dependence of dark rate on temperature –Even for a lower dark rate part, there will be a transient trapping-release response to temperature changes (seen in T/V #1 with FPA64) –The substantial calibration offset, combined with the limited temperature margins in the subsystem test, have made the team reluctant to push the FPA temperature as far as the thermal performance would permit – would be good to establish more margin in IR-3, IR-4 tests, in addition to resolving the calibration offsets Internal calibration system –Internal flat-field calibration, on the ground and in space is crucial for the very rich filter set of WFC3 –Especially in UV, where no suitable diffuse, uniform sources exist in the sky –Late turn-on of D2 (up to few minutes) is tractable, but failure to turn on would be a significant issue (there is only a single D2 lamp – no redundancy) –The tungsten bulbs are required for a thorough ground cal with each potential flight detector, and then in orbit as well to track launch shifts or changes with time

15 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 General Detector Status Bar chart

16 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 UVIS Detector Assembly Status Two UVIS detector concerns –Short due to conductive particle on flex lead –TEC damage UVIS1-prime is being reassembled after thermal anomaly occurred during acceptance testing UVIS2 was delivered to GSFC on March 24, installed into WFC3, and is under instrument test –probably has same TEC problems as UVIS1 UVIS3 effort at BATC has started –CCD Flex/Carrier assemblies (short resistant) –Significant schedule challenges

17 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 UVIS Thermal Anomaly Wrapping up the anomaly investigation –Conclusion: Anomaly was most likely caused by TEC column failure due to thermally-induced stresses caused by CCD anneal, and may have been aggravated by subsequent vibration testing –TEC failure has not been duplicated on test units thus far. However, strength varies among devices, and we appear to have selected fairly weak TECs for UVIS1 and possibly UVIS2. The problem will be resolved on three fronts –Reduce stresses on TEC to the extent possible ‘Ramp’ TEC power levels during ground test and on-orbit operation –Strengthen future TECs to the extent possible (UVIS3 only) Use thermally-applied nickel (TAN) plating on TE columns to increase strength of solder joint –Inspect the TECs more thoroughly using standardized criteria Identify flaws that could weaken TEC

18 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 TEC Thermal Testing ACS Qual Unit #4 instrumented and used to measure temperatures at each TEC stage during operation –Cooldown: Current increased rapidly from 0  4.2 Amps –Warmup: Current decreased rapidly from 4.2  0 amps –Anneal: ‘GSFC’ process: TEC allowed to warm for 1 hour before 1.0 amps applied rapidly ‘Ball’ process: 0.6 amps applied rapidly without a warmup period C5 Ceramic C1 Ceramic

19 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 UVIS3 Flow Flex Cable Procurement Ball Procurement GSFC Procurement e2v Packaging of Devices Onto Existing Chip Carrier Assemblies Detector Backside Processing CCD Assembly DCL TestingUVIS3 Assembly Ball Task e2v Task GSFC Task Delivery to GSFC Connector & Carrier Assembly Task in progress Task complete

20 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 CCD Performance Comparison CCD044 was delivered to the DCL June 20, 2007 Detectors previously delivered to the DCL

21 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 QE For IR4 Candidate IR4

22 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 Dark Current For IR4 Candidate

23 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 IR3 short location UPSTREAM Section of leads validated by Franka, 4/07 DOWNSTREAM lead pinched under foot of thermal shield

24 Wide Field Camera 3 Monthly Status ReviewJuly 17, 2007 Instrument Integration WFC3 Schedule 9/08 Shuttle Launch Pre-IR Detector Instrument Level Testing (Includes T/V test-2) Delivery to HST I&T 8/31/07 Build Flight IR1 Detector assembly 10/1/06 – 10/16/07 EMI / EMC -2 12/20 – 12/31/07 12/3 – 12/14/07 Flight detector installation(s) and final instrument closeout 10/24/05 – 4/5/07 = NEW = CRITICAL PATH ITEM 4/5/07 – 8/31/07 T/V test #2 (Dedicated SES chamber time) 4/17/07– 8/26/07 Build Flight IR3 Det. Assembly 5/23/06 – 5/16/07 UVIS2 Detector Installation 3/24 – 3/25/07 UVIS1 Detector Reassembly and Test 3/2/07 – 6/07 10/1/06 – 12/3/07 Build Flight IR4 Det. Assembly T/V test -3 T/V test -3 (Dedicated SES chamber time) 12/3/07 – 2/28/08 1/2/08 – 02/28/08 Build Flight UVIS3 Det. Assembly 4/1/07 – 2/29/08 Detector Selection 12/3/07 UVIS3 Installation? NET 3/3/08 – 3/14/08 Final Delivery to HST I&T 2/28/08 Acoustic -2 12/14 – 12/19/07