By observing 25 massive galaxy clusters with HST's new panchromatic imaging capabilities (Wide-field Camera 3, WFC3, and the Advanced Camera for Surveys, ACS), CLASH will accomplish its four primary science goals: Map, with unprecedented accuracy, the distribution of dark matter in galaxy clusters using strong and weak gravitational lensing; Detect Type Ia supernovae out to redshift z ~ 2, allowing us to test the constancy of dark energy's repulsive force over time and look for any evolutionary effects in the supernovae themselves; Detect and characterize some of the most distant galaxies yet discovered at z > 7 (when the Universe was younger than 800 million years old - or less than 6% of its current age); Study the internal structure and evolution of the galaxies in and behind these clusters.

Abell 383. Credit: CLASH Science Team

The CLASH Multi-Cycle Treasury program (12065 PI: Marc Postman) will observe these 25 clusters over a 3 year period. The team has been awarded a total of 524 orbits of time on HST to conduct this program. For more information see the CLASH website at http://www.stsci.edu/~postman/CLASH/Home.html.

This table lists the clusters that have been released by the CLASH team. The first version of the data will be released approximate 2 months after the last data are taken for a cluster. A second version will be released about 6 months after the last observation of the cluster. Note that at this time, all HST observational data have been released (30-mas and 65-mas scale data).

In addition to the optical and NIR data here at MAST, IR data and catalogs from Spitzer, and submillimeter data from Bolocam, are both archived at IRSA (Bolocam, Spitzer). N.B.: MS 2137.3-2353 = MACS J2140.2-2339 at IRSA.

Download PSF models for all filters here.

Notes

• The Merten and Zitrin models for MACSJ0416-24, MACSJ0717+37, MACSJ1149+22, and RXJ2248-4431 (a.k.a. Abell S1063) were delivered as part of the Frontier Fields Lens Model program. Their file contents are identical to the Frontier Field versions, but have had their file names and headers updated to change "frontier" to "clash".


• The photometric redshift catalog for the cluster MACS1311-03 used B and V band images taken with WFI at ESO and z' band images taken with IMACS at Magellan, in addition to the Subaru data. Those FITS files can be found inside that cluster's Subaru data directory.


• The photometric redshift catalog for the cluster MACS1423+24 used Ks band images taken with WIRCAM at CFHT, in addition to the Subaru data. Those FITS files can be found inside that cluster's Subaru data directory.


• The photometric redshift catalog for the cluster RXJ1347-1145 used g' band images taken with Megacam at CFHT, in addition to the Subaru data. Those FITS files can be found inside that cluster's Subaru data directory.


• A source catalog for the cluster RXJ2248-4431 (a.k.a., Abell S1063) using WFI at ESO was delivered as part of the Frontier Fields program. We provide a link to this file within the CLASH table on this page for convenience.


• All the mosaics provided here have already had all distortion removed by drizzling, and correct astrometry is provided in their header WCS (represented by CRVAL1, CRVAL2, CRPIX1, CRPIX2, CD1_1, CD1_2, CD2_1, CD2_2). Their CTYPE keywords also correctly reflect this (being set to "RA---TAN" and "DEC--TAN'). However, the Astropy tools "all_pix2world" or "all_world2pix" (contained in "wcs") currently attempt to apply SIP coefficients that are found in the headers, and therefore may not give correct astrometry. A solution is instead to use the Astropy tools "wcs_pix2world" or "wcs_world2pix" (also contained in "wcs"), which do not make this error and which give correct astrometry for these mosaics. Another alternative is to not use Astropy but instead use WCSTools, available from CfA, which also correctly calculates astrometry for these mosaics.