Published July 1, 2013 | Version v1
Journal article

THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE TREASURY PROGRAM ON THE ORION NEBULA CLUSTER ,

  • 1. Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 (United States)
  • 2. European Space Agency, Keplerlaan 1, 2200-AG Noordwijk (Netherlands)
  • 3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, 6301 Stevenson Center, Nashville, TN 37235 (United States)
  • 4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 (United States)
  • 5. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, 518 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802 (United States)
  • 6. Spitzer Science Center, California Institute of Technology 314-6, Pasadena, CA 91125 (United States)
  • 7. ETH Zürich, Institut für Astronomie, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, CH-8093 Zürich (Switzerland)

Description

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Treasury Program on the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) has used 104 orbits of HST time to image the Great Orion Nebula region with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the Wide-Field/Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), and the Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph (NICMOS) instrument in 11 filters ranging from the U band to the H band equivalent of HST. The program has been intended to perform the definitive study of the stellar component of the ONC at visible wavelengths, addressing key questions like the cluster initial mass function, age spread, mass accretion, binarity, and cirumstellar disk evolution. The scanning pattern allowed us to cover a contiguous field of approximately 600 arcmin2 with both ACS and WFPC2, with a typical exposure time of approximately 11 minutes per ACS filter, corresponding to a point source depth AB(F435W) = 25.8 and AB(F775W) = 25.2 with 0.2 mag of photometric error. We describe the observations, data reduction, and data products, including images, source catalogs, and tools for quick look preview. In particular, we provide ACS photometry for 3399 stars, most of them detected at multiple epochs; WFPC2 photometry for 1643 stars, 1021 of them detected in the U band; and NICMOS JH photometry for 2116 stars. We summarize the early science results that have been presented in a number of papers. The final set of images and the photometric catalogs are publicly available through the archive as High Level Science Products at the STScI Multimission Archive hosted by the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/207/1/10

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
Journal Volume
207
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
[28 p.]
ISSN
0067-0049
CODEN
APJSA2

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
44075305
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
ACCRETION DISKS; ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; CAMERAS; CATALOGS; DWARF STARS; IMAGES; MAIN SEQUENCE STARS; MASS; NEBULAE; ORBITS; PHOTOMETRY; PROTOSTARS; SPACE; STAR EVOLUTION; TELESCOPES
Descriptors DEC
DOCUMENT TYPES; EVOLUTION; PHYSICS; STARS