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1. Faint Object Camera
ID:
ivo://archive.stsci.edu/hst/foc
Title:
Faint Object Camera
Short Name:
HST.FOC
Date:
23 Jul 2020 19:48:27
Publisher:
Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Description:
The Faint Object Camera (FOC) was one of the 4 original axial instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). FOC is used to make high-resolution observations of faint sources at UV and visible wavel
2. HST Ultraviolet Atlas of Nearby Galaxies
ID:
ivo://mast.stsci/siap/hst.maoz_atlas
Title:
HST Ultraviolet Atlas of Nearby Galaxies
Short Name:
HST.maoz_atlas
Date:
23 Jul 2020 19:27:41
Publisher:
Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Description:
A pictorial atlas of UV (2300 Å) images, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Faint Object Camera, of the central 22''× 22'' of 110 galaxies (Maoz, Filippenko, Ho, Macchetto, Rix, & Schneider 1996). The observed galaxies are an unbiased selection constituting about one half of a complete sample of all large (D>6 arcmin) and nearby (V< 2000 km/s ) galaxies. This is the first extensive UV imaging survey of normal galaxies. The data are useful for studying star formation, low-level nuclear activity, and UV emission by evolved stellar populations in galaxies. At the HST resolution (~ 0.05''), the images display an assortment of morphologies and UV brightnesses. These include bright nuclear point sources, compact young star clusters scattered in the field or arranged in circumnuclear rings, centrally-peaked diffuse light distributions, and galaxies with weak or undetected UV emission. We measure the integrated ~2300 Å flux in each image, and classify the UV morphology.