Archive of Nearby Galaxies: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (ANGRRR)
Short Name:
HST.ANGRRR
Date:
22 Jul 2020 22:28:43
Publisher:
Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Description:
An archive of stellar photometry for galaxies within 3.5 Mpc, excluding Local Group galaxies, based on primary and parallel wide-filter UV and optical observations taken with HST ACS/WFC or WFPC2.The sample includes all observations taken through Dec. 2008, as well as observations
taken as part of Cycle 16 Supplemental GO programs 11986 and 11987. This release includes the ANGST targets within 3.5 Mpc; these observations
have been rereduced using updated CTE corrections and zeropoints. Galaxies with 3.5 < D <= 5 Mpc will be included in a later release.
COSMOS (P.I. Nicholas Scoville, California Institute of Technology, USA/CA) is an HST Treasury Program to survey a 2 square degree equatorial field, centered on RA=10:00:28.6 and DEC=+02:12:21.0 with the ACS in the I band of the VIMOS equatorial field. Parallel observations with WFPC2 and NICMOS were also obtained.
Holwerda et al. examined 32 HST/WFPC2 archival fields of 29 spiral galaxies (Sab and later) for their paper The Opacity of Spiral Galaxy Disks. IV. Radial Extinction Profiles from Counts of Distant Galaxies Seen through Foreground Disks (2005, AJ,129:1396-1411). The majority of the data are from the Cepheid distance scale Key Project. The explicit goal was to provide deep mosaics in both V- and I-band with a better sampling in order to identify background galaxies through the foreground disk.
