A second Hubble Deep Field campaign was carried out between late September and October of 1998. The raw, pipeline calibrated and reprocessed data were released to the community on November 23, 1998. The rationale for undertaking a second deep field campaign followed from the wealth of information that has come out of HDF-N, and from the desire to provide a point of focus for similar studies of the distant universe from southern-hemisphere facilities. Simultaneous, parallel observations were made with the three HST instruments STIS, WFPC2 and NICMOS of separate, neighboring fields. As was the case for HDF-N, approximately 150 consecutive orbits were devoted to a single telescope pointing.
For the 14 hours of peak Leonid meteoroid flux in November 2002, the Hubble Space Telescope was pointed away from the radiant, and the solar arrays were oriented to minimize their cross-section. By coincidence, one of the nearest and largest planetary nebulae, the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), was nearly opposite the incoming Leonids and could be observed. A "Hubble Helix Team" (below) of volunteers led by Margaret Meixner (STScI) organized a nine-orbit campaign to observe the Helix with the ACS, WFPC2, NICMOS, and STIS.
MAST-produced spectral container files for STIS spectra. STIS
spectra range from 1150 to 10,300 at low to medium spectral resolution, high
spatial resolution echelle spectroscopy in the ultraviolet. STIS began
operation in 1997. (Note the included echelle spectra are technically not
yet supported by the SSAP.)
The "TNO Search Field" images are the sidereally summed images of a search for trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) using the Wide Field Camera of the HST/ACS instrument. The observations were taken under Cycle 11 program GO-9433, "The Size Distribution of Kuiper Belt Bodies," with G. Bernstein as PI. The TNO search consisted of approximately 96x400 s exposures in the F606W filter for each of six contiguous ACS fields of view. The TNO search field is approximately 6'x10', centered near 14h 07M 53.3s -11d 21' 38" (J2000).
The ACS Ultra Deep Field (UDF) is a cycle 12 survey carried out using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on HST and taking advantage of the Director's Discretionary time. The UDF consists of a single ultra-deep field (412 orbits in total taken in 4 bands) within the CDF-S GOODS area. It is the deepest image ever obtained with Hubble. This service also includes data from the UDF follow-Up program by PI Massimo Stiavelli and colleagues obtained under HST cycle 14 program 10632 titled Searching for galaxies at z>6.5 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (also known as UDF05).
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.
Hubble Infrared Pure Parallel Imaging Extragalactic Survey (HIPPIES)
Short Name:
HST.HIPPIES
Date:
22 Jul 2020 22:31:09
Publisher:
Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Description:
Hubble Infrared Pure Parallel Imaging Extragalactic Survey (HIPPIES) utilizes long-duration pure parallel
visits (~> 3 orbits) of HST at high Galactic latitude (|b|>20o) to take deep, multi-band images in WFC3
(since Cycle 17) and in ACS (starting Cycle 18). It is unique in its large number of descrete fields
along random sightlines, and thus is complementary to other surveys over contiguous fields but
along limited sightlines.
Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is an orbiting astronomical observatory operating from the near-infrared into the ultraviolet. Launched in 1990 and scheduled to operate through 2010, HST carries and has carried a wide variety of instruments producing imaging, spectrographic, astrometric, and photometric data through both pointed and parallel observing programs. MAST is the primary archive and distribution center for HST data, distributing science, calibration, and engineering data to HST users and the astronomical community at large. Over 100 000 observations of more than 20 000 targets are available for retrieval from the Archive.
Spectra from the HST FOS instrument (processed by ESO and CADC)
in the 1,150 - 8,500 Å range, resolution ~ 250 and 1,300, V_max ~ 20, 1990 - 1997.
Links point to VO-compatible FITS files created by MAST staff.
Hubble Space Telescope gallery of Interacting and Merging Galaxies
Short Name:
HST.merggal
Date:
22 Jul 2020 22:00:54
Publisher:
Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Description:
A gallery of images of interacting and merging galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope press releases. These data were originally acquired under HST programs 6276, 10592, 11091, 11092, and 11095, and include WFPC2 images of Arp 87, NGC 6050, and Arp 148 (and two ACS images of Arp 148).
