The Hubble Deep Field South - STIS Imaging
Abstract
We present the imaging observations made with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph of the Hubble Deep Field - South. The field was imaged in 4 bandpasses: a clear CCD bandpass for 156 ksec, a long-pass filter for 22-25 ksec per pixel typical exposure, a near-UV bandpass for 23 ksec, and a far-UV bandpass for 52 ksec. The clear visible image is the deepest observation ever made in the UV-optical wavelength region, reaching a 10 sigma AB magnitude of 29.4 for an object of area 0.2 square arcseconds. The field contains QSO J2233-606, the target of the STIS spectroscopy, and extends 50"x50" for the visible images, and 25"x25" for the ultraviolet images. We present the images, catalog of objects, and galaxy counts obtained in the field.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9912167,
title = {The Hubble Deep Field South - STIS Imaging},
author = {J. P. Gardner and S. A. Baum and T. M. Brown and C. M. Carollo and J. Christensen and I. Dashevsky and M. E. Dickinson and B. R. Espey and H. C. Ferguson and A. S. Fruchter and A. M. Gonnella and R. A. Gonzalez-Lopezlira and R. N. Hook and M. E. Kaiser and C. L. Martin and K. C. Sahu and S. Savaglio and T. E. Smith and H. I. Teplitz and R. E. Williams and J. Wilson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9912167},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
44 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal, February 2000. The resolution of the images has been reduced; preprints with full resolution images are available at http://hires.gsfc.nasa.gov/~gardner/hdfs/stispaper/index.html