Mission Overview
Hubble imaging Probe of Extreme Environments and Clusters ("HiPEEC")
Primary Investigator: Angela Adamo
HLSP Authors: Angela Adamo, Linda Smith
Released: 2020-11-02
Updated: 2020-11-02
Primary Reference(s): Adamo et al. 2020
Citations: See ADS Statistics
Source Data:
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NGC 34 and NGC 3256
NGC 1614 + NGC 3690
NGC 6052 + NGC 4194
Overview
The Hubble imaging Probe of Extreme Environments and Clusters ("HiPEEC") is a survey investigating star cluster formation in the extreme environments of six merging galaxies. The team provides the reduced, aligned and drizzled HST images (scale of 0.04 arcsec/pixel) for the six galaxies of the survey: NGC34, 1614, 4194, 3256, 3690 and 6052. There are 32 images in total and the filters cover at a minimum UBVI and H-alpha for each galaxy. The team also provides the star cluster catalog for each galaxy. Each catalog includes the position (RA, Dec), measured magnitudes, extinctions, ages and masses from fits to the spectral energy distributions. An explanation of the column contents is given at the start of each file.
Data Products
The file naming convention for the images is as follows:
hlsp_hipeec_hst_<ins>_<target>_<filter>_v1_<ext>
where:
- <ins> = Instrument used, one of "acs-wfc", "acs-hrc", or "wfc3-uvis"
- <target> = Name of galaxy, one of "ngc1614", "ngc3256", "ngc34", "ngc3690", "ngc4194", or "ngc6052"
- <filter> = Name of filter used, e.g., "f438w"
- <ext> = Type of file (extension), one of "drc.fits" or "drz.fits"
The file naming convention for the catalogs is as follows:
hlsp_hipeec_hst_<ins>_<target>_multiband_v1_pdmod-sbext.dat
where:
- <ins> is a dash-separated list of all the instruments used across all the available images, e.g., "acs-wfc-wfc3-uvis"
- <target> = Name of galaxy, one of "ngc1614", "ngc3256", "ngc34", "ngc3690", "ngc4194", or "ngc6052"
Data file types:
| _drc.fits | Drizzled image, CTE correction applied. |
| _drz.fits | Drizzled image, no CTE correction applied (only for ACS HRC images). |
| _pdmod-sbext.dat | Source catalog. |
