Publisher: Space Telescope Science Institute Archive / Instrument: FOC

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

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.

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