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The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF). III. Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Grism Spectroscopy and Imaging

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2023-03-20 v2

Abstract

We present extremely deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) observations of the MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF). This unique region of the sky contains two quasars at zz \approx 3.22 that are separated by only \sim500 kpc, providing a stereoscopic view of gas and galaxies in emission and absorption across \sim10 billion years of cosmic time. We have obtained 90 orbits of HST WFC3 G141 near-infrared grism spectroscopy of this field in a single pointing, as well as 142 hours of optical spectroscopy with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE). The WFC3 (F140W, F125W, and F336W) and archival WFPC2 (F702W and F450W) imaging provides five-filter photometry that we use to detect 3,375 sources between zz \approx 0 - 6, including 1,536 objects in a deep central pointing with both spectroscopic and photometric coverage. The F140W and F336W mosaics reach exceptional depths of mABm_\mathrm{AB}\approx 28 and 29, respectively, providing near-infrared and rest-frame ultraviolet information for 1,580 sources, and we reach 5σ\sigma continuum detections for objects as faint as mABm_\mathrm{AB}\approx 27 in the grism spectra. The extensive wavelength coverage of MUSE and WFC3 allows us to measure spectroscopic redshifts for 419 sources, down to galaxy stellar masses of log(M/M_{\odot}) \approx 7 at zz \approx 1 - 2. In this publication, we provide the calibrated HST data and source catalogs as High Level Science Products for use by the community, which includes photometry, morphology, and redshift measurements that enable a variety of studies aimed at advancing our models of galaxy formation and evolution in different environments.

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@article{arxiv.2302.01345,
  title  = {The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF). III. Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Grism Spectroscopy and Imaging},
  author = {Mitchell Revalski and Marc Rafelski and Michele Fumagalli and Matteo Fossati and Norbert Pirzkal and Ben Sunnquist and Laura J. Prichard and Alaina Henry and Micaela Bagley and Rajeshwari Dutta and Giulia Papini and Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia and Valentina D'Odorico and Pratika Dayal and Vicente Estrada-Carpenter and Emma K. Lofthouse and Elisabeta Lusso and Simon L. Morris and Kalina V. Nedkova and Casey Papovich and Celine Peroux},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.01345},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in ApJS on February 1, 2023. The paper has 25 pages, 13 figures, and 7 tables. Version two includes minor corrections to match the journal publication. The calibrated data are available through MAST at: https://archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/mudf