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J/AJ/119/486        HDF-S: STIS imaging                      (Gardner+, 2000)
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The Hubble Deep Field South: STIS imaging.
    Gardner J.P., Baum S.A., Brown T.M., Carollo C.M., Christensen J.,
    Dashevsky I., Dickinson M.E., Espey B.R., Ferguson H.C., Fruchter A.S.,
    Gonnella A.M., Gonzalez-Lopezlira R.A., Hook R.N., Kaiser M.E., Martin C.L.,
    Sahu K.C., Savaglio S., Smith T.E., Teplitz H.I., Williams R.E., Wilson J.
   <Astron. J. 119, 486 (2000)>
   =2000AJ....119..486G
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ADC_Keywords: Galaxies, photometry ; Photometry, CCD ; Photometry, ultraviolet
Mission_Name: HST
Keywords: cosmology: observations - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: statistics -
          surveys

Abstract:
    We present the imaging observations made with the Space Telescope
    Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) of the Hubble Deep Field South. The field
    was imaged in four bandpasses: a clear CCD bandpass for 156ks, a
    long-pass filter for 22-25ks/pix typical exposure, a near-UV bandpass
    for 23ks, and a far-UV bandpass for 52ks. 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
    0.2arcsec^2^. 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.

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ReadMe            80        .   This file
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See also:
    J/A+AS/145/111 : HDF-South catalogue of galaxies (Volonteri+, 2000)
    J/ApJ/538/493  : HDF-South NICMOS field (Yahata+, 2000)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  5  I5    ---     [GBB2000] Identification number ([GBB2000] NNNNN)
   7-  8  I2    h       RAh       Right ascension (J2000)
  10- 11  I2    min     RAm       Right ascension (J2000)
  13- 17  F5.2  s       RAs       Right ascension (J2000)
      19  A1    ---     DE-       Declination sign (J2000)
  20- 21  I2    deg     DEd       Declination (J2000)
  23- 24  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination (J2000)
  26- 29  F4.1  arcsec  DEs       Declination (J2000)
  31- 37  F7.2  pix     Xpos      X position (1)
  39- 45  F7.2  pix     Ypos      Y position (1)
  47- 51  F5.2  mag     mj        Isophotal 50CCD magnitude
                                   (filterless, 200-1000nm) (2)
  53- 57  F5.2  mag     ma        ? MAG_AUTO 50CCD magnitude
                                   (filterless, 200-1000nm) (2)
      59  A1    ---   l_50CCD-LP  Limit flag on 50CCD-LP
  60- 64  F5.2  mag     50CCD-LP  Isophotal color, 50CCD-F28X50LP
                                   (F28X50LP: red, 550-1000nm) (3)
      66  A1    ---  l_NUV-50CCD  Limit flag on NUV-50CCD
  67- 71  F5.2  mag    NUV-50CCD  ? Isophotal color NUVQZT-50CCD
                                   (NUVQZT: 150-350nm) (4)
      73  A1    ---  l_FUV-50CCD  Limit flag on FUV-50CCD
  74- 78  F5.2  mag    FUV-50CCD  ? Isophotal color FUVQTZ-50CCD
                                   (FUVQZT: 150-200nm) (4)
  80- 83  I4    mas     rh        ? Half-light radius of the object in the
                                     50CCD image (5)
  85- 88  F4.2  ---     s/g       [0,1] Star/Galaxy classification parameter (6)
  90- 97  A8    ---     Flags     Flags (7)
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Note (1): The x and y pixel positions of the object on the 50CCD and 
    F28X50LP images. To obtain the x and y pixel positions on the MAMA
    images, subtract 400 from each.

Note (2): The magnitudes are given in the AB system (Oke, 1971ApJ...170..193O),
           where m=-2.5logf_{nu}_-48.60.
    The isophotal magnitude is determined from the sum of the counts
    within the detection isophote, set to be 0.65{sigma}.

    The MAG_AUTO is an elliptical Kron (1980ApJS...43..305K) magnitude,
    determined from the sum of the counts in an elliptical aperture. The
    semimajor axis of this aperture is defined by 2.5 times the first
    moments of the flux distribution within an ellipse roughly twice the
    isophotal radius. However if the aperture defined this way would have
    a semimajor axis smaller than 3.5 pixels, a 3.5 pixel value is used.

Note (3): Isophotal color, 50CCD-F28X50LP, in the AB magnitude system, 
    as determined in the 50CCD isophote. SExtractor was run in two-image
    mode to determine the photometry in the F28X50LP image, using the
    50CCD image as the detection image. When the measured F28X50LP flux is
    less than 2{sigma}, we determine an upper limit to the color using the
    flux plus 2{sigma} when the measured flux is positive and 2{sigma}
    when the measured flux is negative. We did not clip the 50CCD
    photometry.

Note (4): Isophotal colors, NUVQTZ-50CCD and FUVQTZ-50CCD, in the 
    AB magnitude system. Photometry in the MAMA images are discussed
    above. Photometry of objects falling partially outside the MAMA image
    are flagged and should not be considered reliable. When the measured
    flux is less than 2{sigma}, we give lower limits to the color as
    discussed above.

Note (5): The half-light radius was determined by SExtractor to be 
    the radius at which a circular aperture contains half of the flux in
    the MAG_AUTO elliptical aperture.

Note (6): A star-galaxy classification parameter determined by a neural 
    network within SExtractor, and based upon the morphology of the object
    in the 50CCD images (see Bertin & Arnouts, 1996A&AS..117..393B, for a
    detailed description of the neural network). Classifications near 1.0
    are more like a point source, while classifications near 0.0 are more
    extended.

Note (7): Flags:
       a: object has near neighbors (50CCD)
       b: object was originally blended with another (50CCD)
       c: at least one pixel is saturated (50CCD)
       d: object's aperture data is incomplete or corrupted (50CCD)
       e: object is off the image or within 30 pixels of the edge (50CCD)
       f: object lies on top of a diffraction spike (50CCD)
       g: photometry is from the second run of SExtractor (50CCD)
       h: object is off the image or within 30 pixels of the edge (F28X50LP)
       i: object lies on top of a diffraction spike (F28X50LP)
       j: photometry is from the second run of SExtractor (F28X50LP)
       k: object is completely off the image (NUV)
       l: object is partially off the image (NUV)
       m: used global sky value (NUV)
       n: object is completely off the image (FUV)
       o: object is partially off the image (FUV)
       p: used global sky value (FUV)
       q: target QSO J2233-606.
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History: From AJ electronic version
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(End)                        James Marcout,  Patricia Bauer [CDS]    20-Mar-2000

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