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Title:
The Hubble Deep Field South: Formulation of the Observing Campaign
Authors:
Williams, Robert E.; Baum, Stefi; Bergeron, Louis E.; Bernstein, Nicholas; Blacker, Brett S.; Boyle, Brian J.; Brown, Thomas M.; Carollo, C. Marcella; Casertano, Stefano; Covarrubias, Riccardo; de Mello, Duília F.; Dickinson, Mark E.; Espey, Brian R.; Ferguson, Henry C.; Fruchter, Andrew; Gardner, Jonathan P.; Gonnella, Anne; Hayes, Jeffrey; Hewett, Paul C.; Heyer, Inger; Hook, Richard; Irwin, Mike; Jones, Daniel; Kaiser, Mary Elizabeth; Levay, Zolt; Lubenow, Andy; Lucas, Ray A.; Mack, Jennifer; MacKenty, John W.; Madau, Piero; Makidon, Russell B.; Martin, Crystal L.; Mazzuca, Lisa; Mutchler, Max; Norris, Ray P.; Perriello, Beth; Phillips, M. M.; Postman, Marc; Royle, Patricia; Sahu, Kailash; Savaglio, Sandra; Sherwin, Alison; Smith, T. Ed; Stiavelli, Massimo; Suntzeff, Nicholas B.; Teplitz, Harry I.; van der Marel, Roeland P.; Walker, Alistair R.; Weymann, Ray J.; Wiggs, Michael S.; Williger, Gerard M.; Wilson, Jennifer; Zacharias, Norbert; Zurek, David R.
Affiliation:
AA(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AB(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AC(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AD(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AE(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AF(; Anglo-Australian Observatory, P.O. Box 296, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia.), AG(; Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics, Code 681, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771.; NOAO Research Associate.), AH(; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-2686.; Hubble Fellow.; Current address: Department of Astronomy, Mail Code 5246, Columbia University, 550 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027.), AI(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AJ(; Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile.), AK(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AL(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AM(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AN(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AO(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AP(; Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics, Code 681, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771.), AQ(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AR(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AS(; Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK.), AT(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AU(; Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany.), AV(; Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK.), AW(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AX(; Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics, Code 681, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771.), AY(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), AZ(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BA(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BB(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BC(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BD(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BE(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BF(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.; Hubble Fellow.), BG(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BH(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BI(; Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia.), BJ(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BK(; Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile.), BL(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BM(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BN(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BO(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BP(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BQ(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BR(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BS(; Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile.), BT(; Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics, Code 681, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771.; NOAO Research Associate.), BU(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BV(; Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile.), BW(; Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91109.), BX(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), BY(; Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics, Code 681, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771.; NOAO Research Associate.), BZ(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.), CA(; Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile.; US Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20392-5420.), CB(; Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.)
Publication:
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 120, Issue 6, pp. 2735-2746. (AJ Homepage)
Publication Date:
12/2000
Origin:
UCP
AJ Keywords:
Catalogs, Cosmology: Observations, Galaxies: Evolution, Galaxies: Formation, Galaxies: Photometry, Surveys
DOI:
10.1086/316854
Bibliographic Code:
2000AJ....120.2735W

Abstract

Deep, multiband observations of high Galactic latitude fields are an essential tool for studying topics ranging from Galactic structure to extragalactic background radiation. The Hubble Deep Field (HDF-N) observations obtained in 1995 December established a standard for such narrow, deep surveys. The field has been extensively analyzed by a variety of groups and has been widely studied with imaging and spectroscopy over wavelengths ranging from 10-3 to 2×105 μm. We describe here a second deep field campaign (HDF-S), this time in the southern hemisphere, undertaken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in 1998 October in a program very similar to the northern Hubble Deep Field. Imaging and spectroscopy of three adjacent fields in the southern continuous viewing zone were obtained simultaneously for 150 orbits, and a mosaic of flanking fields was imaged for 27 additional orbits. Two important features of the HDF-S distinguish it from the HDF-N: the campaign included parallel observations by the three main HST instruments-WFPC2, STIS, and NICMOS-and the HDF-S location was selected to place a bright z=2.24 quasar in the STIS field of view. The HDF-S observations consist of WFPC2 images in filters close to U, B, V, and I, a deep STIS image of the field surrounding the quasar, spectroscopy of the quasar with STIS from 1150 to 3560 Å, and deep imaging of an adjacent field with NICMOS camera 3 at 1.1, 1.6, and 2.2 μm. All of the HDF-S data were fully reduced and made publicly available within 2 months of the observations, and we describe here the selection of the fields and the observing strategy that was employed. Detailed descriptions of the data and the reduction techniques for each field, together with the corresponding source catalogs, appear in separate papers.

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