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Description
The GOODS NICMOS Survey (GNS) is a 180 orbit Hubble Space Telescope survey
consisting of 60 pointings with the NICMOS-3 near-infrared camera.
Each pointing is centred on a massive galaxy (M<sub>*</sub> > 1011 M<sub>sun</sub>)
in the redshift range 1.7 < z < 3,
selected by their optical-to-infrared colours (Papovich+06,Yan+04,Daddi+07)
from the GOODS (Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey) fields.
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The positions of the 60 GNS pointings were optimised to contain as
many massive galaxies as possible and are partly overlapping,
covering a total area of about 45 arcmin2.
The field of view of the NICMOS-3 camera is 51.2 × 51.2 arcsec with a
resolution of about 0.1 arcsec/pixel.
The PSF has a width of about 0.3 arcsec FWHM.
The limiting magnitude in H band reached at 5σ is HAB = 26.8,
about 2 magnitudes fainter than in available ground based data of the GOODS fields.
[Taken from reference website.] Provenance: University of Nottingham, GNS group.. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
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