The ACS virgo cluster survey. II. Data reduction procedures

Andrés Jordán; John P. Blakeslee; Eric W. Peng; Simona Mei; Patrick Côté; Laura Ferrarese; John L. Tonry; David Merritt; Miloš Milosavljević; Michael J. West

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The ACS virgo cluster survey. II. Data reduction procedures

Andrés Jordán, John P. Blakeslee, Eric W. Peng, Simona Mei, Patrick Côté, Laura Ferrarese, John L. Tonry, David Merritt, Miloš Milosavljević, Michael J. West

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The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey is a large program to carry out multicolor imaging of 100 early-type members of the Virgo Cluster using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope. Deep F475W and F850LP images (≈SDSS g and z) are being used to study the central regions of the program galaxies, their globular cluster systems, and the three-dimensional structure of Virgo itself. In this paper, we describe in detail the data reduction procedures used for the survey, including image registration, drizzling strategies, the computation of weight images, object detection, the identification of globular cluster candidates, and the measurement of their photometric and structural parameters.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	509-517
Number of pages	9
Journal	Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
Volume	154
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/422977
State	Published - Oct 2004
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Galaxies: clusters: individual (Virgo)
Methods: data analysis
Surveys
Techniques: image processing

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