The Hubble Deep Field South: STIS Imaging

February 2000 • 2000AJ....119..486G

Authors • Gardner, Jonathan P. • Baum, Stefi A. • Brown, Thomas M. • Carollo, C. Marcella • Christensen, Jennifer • Dashevsky, Ilana • Dickinson, Mark E. • Espey, Brian R. • Ferguson, Henry C. • Fruchter, Andrew S. • Gonnella, Anne M. • Gonzalez-Lopezlira, Rosa A. • Hook, Richard N. • Kaiser, Mary Elizabeth • Martin, Crystal L. • Sahu, Kailash C. • Savaglio, Sandra • Smith, T. Ed • Teplitz, Harry I. • Williams, Robert E. • Wilson, Jennifer

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 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 σ AB magnitude of 29.4 for an object of area 0.2 arcsec². 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. Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555.

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