Acknowledgments

The authors wish to acknowledge the efforts of Howard A. Bushouse, Michele De La Peña, and Richard A. Shaw, currently at the Space Telescope Science Institute, and Joy S. Nichols, currently at the California Institute of Technology, who contributed to this document and the Final Archive effort while employed by Computer Sciences Corporation. Credit is also due to C. L. Imhoff and T. Meylan for their thoughtful input and proofreading, and to J. Caplinger for assistance in the preparation of several of the figures. In addition, much support was provided by our European colleagues working at the IUE Observatory at VILSPA, as they developed several of the files and algorithms used in the final calibration. We wish to thank the members and participants of the Final Archive Definition Committee, the Development Coordination Group of the IUE Three Agencies, and the IUE Users' Committee, who provided much useful input towards the Final Archive effort. The basis of the text for Chapter 12 was taken from a document written by the Development Coordination Group. Some of the text, tables, and diagrams for Chapters 2 and 4 were taken directly from the International Ultraviolet Explorer Image Processing Information Manual, Version 2.0 which was prepared by B. E. Turnrose and R. W. Thompson. The bulk of this manual was taken from the IUE NEWSIPS Information Manual: Low-Dispersion Data, Version 1.0 written by J. S. Nichols, M. P. Garhart, M. D. De La Peña, and K. L. Levay.