THE ADVANCED CAMERA FOR SURVEYS GENERAL CATALOG: STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS FOR APPROXIMATELY HALF A MILLION GALAXIES

Journal Article · Tue May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012 · Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/200/1/9· OSTI ID:22047805

Griffith, Roger L; Kirkpatrick, J Davy ^[1]; Cooper, Michael C ^[2]; Newman, Jeffrey A ^[3]; Moustakas, Leonidas A; Stern, Daniel ^[4]; Comerford, Julia M ^[5]; Davis, Marc ^[6]; Lotz, Jennifer M; Koekemoer, Anton M ^[7]; Barden, Marco ^[8]; Conselice, Christopher J ^[9]; Capak, Peter L; Scoville, Nick; Sheth, Kartik; Shopbell, Patrick ^[10]; Faber, S M; Koo, David C ^[11]; Noeske, Kai G ^[12]; Willmer, Christopher N. A. ^[13] ; others, and

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1. Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 (United States)
2. Center for Galaxy Evolution, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, 4129 Frederick Reines Hall, Irvine, CA 92697 (United States)
3. Pittsburgh Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (United States)
4. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 (United States)
5. Astronomy Department, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 (United States)
6. Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Hearst Field Annex B, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
7. Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218 (United States)
8. Institute of Astro- and Particle Physics, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, 6020 Innsbruck (Austria)
9. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham (United Kingdom)
10. Spitzer Science Centre, 314-6 California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125 (United States)
11. UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California, CA (United States)
12. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States)
13. Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721 (United States)

We present the Advanced Camera for Surveys General Catalog (ACS-GC), a photometric and morphological database using publicly available data obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. The goal of the ACS-GC database is to provide a large statistical sample of galaxies with reliable structural and distance measurements to probe the evolution of galaxies over a wide range of look-back times. The ACS-GC includes approximately 470,000 astronomical sources (stars + galaxies) derived from the AEGIS, COSMOS, GEMS, and GOODS surveys. GALAPAGOS was used to construct photometric (SEXTRACTOR) and morphological (GALFIT) catalogs. The analysis assumes a single Sersic model for each object to derive quantitative structural parameters. We include publicly available redshifts from the DEEP2, COMBO-17, TKRS, PEARS, ACES, CFHTLS, and zCOSMOS surveys to supply redshifts (spectroscopic and photometric) for a considerable fraction ({approx}74%) of the imaging sample. The ACS-GC includes color postage stamps, GALFIT residual images, and photometry, structural parameters, and redshifts combined into a single catalog.

• OSTI ID: 22047805
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, Vol. 200, Issue 1; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0067-0049
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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79 ASTROPHYSICS
COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY
AVAILABILITY
CAMERAS
CATALOGS
DATA COMPILATION
DISTANCE
EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY
GALAXIES
PHOTOMETRY
PROBES
RED SHIFT
SPACE
STARS
TELESCOPES
UNIVERSE