The Hubble Deep Field South: STIS imaging

Authors
Gardner, JP Baum, SA Brown, TM Carollo, CM Christensen, J Dashevsky, I Dickinson, ME Espey, BR Ferguson, HC Fruchter, AS Gonnella, AM Gonzalez-Lopezlira, RA Hook, RN Kaiser, ME Martin, CL Sahu, KC Savaglio, S Smith, TE Teplitz, HI Williams, RE Wilson, J
Citation
Jp. Gardner et al., The Hubble Deep Field South: STIS imaging, ASTRONOM J, 119(2), 2000, pp. 486-508
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Space Sciences
Journal title
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
ISSN journal
00046256 → ACNP
Volume
119
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
486 - 508
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-6256(200002)119:2<486:THDFSS>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
We present the imaging observations made with the Space Telescope Imaging S pectrograph (STIS) of the Hubble Deep Field South. The field was imaged in four bandpasses: a clear CCD bandpass for 156 ks, a long-pass filter for 22 -25 ks pixel(-1) typical exposure, a near-UV bandpass for 23 ks, and a far- UV bandpass for 52 ks. The clear, visible image is the deepest observation ever made in the UV-optical wavelength region, reaching a 10 sigma AB magni tude of 29.4 for an object of area 0.2 arcsec(2). The field contains QSO J2 233-606, the target of the STIS spectroscopy, and extends 50 " x 50 " for t he visible images, and 25 " x 25 " for the ultraviolet images. We present t he images, catalog of objects, and galaxy counts obtained in the field.