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The COSMOS Survey: Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys Observations and Data Processing

2007; Institute of Physics; Volume: 172; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1086/520086

1538-4365

Anton M. Koekemoer, H. Aussel, D. Calzetti, P. Capak, Mauro Giavalisco, Jean‐Paul Kneib, Alexie Leauthaud, O. Le Fèvre, H. J. McCracken, R. Massey, Bahram Mobasher, Jason Rhodes, N. Scoville, P. L. Shopbell,

Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena

We describe the details of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys / Wide Field Channel (ACS/WFC) observations of the COSMOS field, including the data calibration and processing procedures. We obtained a total of 583 orbits of HST ACS/WFC imaging in the F814W filter, covering a field that is 1.64 square degrees in area, the largest contiguous field ever imaged with HST. The median exposure depth across the field is 2028 seconds (one HST orbit), achieving a limiting point-source depth AB(F814W) = 27.2 (5 sigma). We also present details about the astrometric image registration, distortion removal and image combination using MultiDrizzle, as well as motivating the choice of our final pixel scale (30 milliarcseconds per pixel), based on the requirements for weak lensing science. The final set of images are publicly available through the archive sites at IPAC and STScI, along with further documentation on how they were produced.