2006/12/19 by Max Mutchler, M. Mutchler, Howard E. Bond +16 · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Camera for Surveys #Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation #Astronomy #Astrophysics #CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors #Drizzle #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Geography #Hubble space telescope #Meteorology #Physics #Remote sensing #Sky #Telescope #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/511160
To appear in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, January 2007; 13 pages, 3 figures. Data downloadable from http://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/m82/
arxiv created 2006/12/19 · openalex publication_date 2007/01/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In 2006 March, the Hubble Heritage Team obtained a large, four‐filter ( B, V, I , and Hα), 6 point mosaic data set of the prototypical starburst galaxy NGC 3034 (M82) with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ). The resulting color composite Heritage image was released in 2006 April to celebrate HST 's 16th anniversary. Cycle 15 HST proposers were encouraged to submit General Observer and Archival Research proposals to complement and/or analyze this unique data set. Since our M82 mosaics represent a significant investment of expert processing beyond the standard archival products, we also released our drizzle‐combined FITS data as a High‐Level Science Product via the Multimission Archive at STScI in 2006 December. This paper documents the key aspects of the observing program and image processing: calibration, image registration and combination (drizzling), and the rejection of cosmic rays and detector artifacts.