The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey is a large program to carry out multi-color imaging of 100 early-type members of the Virgo Cluster using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope. Deep F475W and F850LP images (~ SDSS g and z) are being used to study the central regions of the program galaxies, their globular cluster systems, and the three-dimensional structure of Virgo itself. In this paper, we describe in detail the data reduction procedures used for the survey, including image registration, drizzling strategies, the computation of weight images, object detection, the identification of globular cluster candidates, and the measurement of their photometric and structural parameters.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0406433,
title = {The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey II. Data Reduction Procedures},
author = {Andres Jordan and John P. Blakeslee and Eric W. Peng and Simona Mei and Patrick Cote and Laura Ferrarese and John L. Tonry and David Merritt and Milos Milosavljevic and Michael J. West},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0406433},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
33 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJS. Also available at http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~pcote/acs/publications.html