Hubble Building Blocks Galaxy at Redshift 4.88

Building block galaxy at redshift of 4.88 from Hubble Ultra Deep Field image.

About the colours

Blue: F435W (B) Green: F606W (V) + F775W (i) Red: F850LP (z)

About the data

GRAPES HST Data The science data were selected based on findings from The Grism-ACS Program for Extragalactic Science (GRAPES), HST proposal 9793 : S. Malhotra et. al. The science team includes: N. Pirzkal (STSCI/ESA) S. Malhotra and J. Rhoads (Arizona State University), and C. Xu (Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics).

HUDF HST Data This image of the HUDF was created from HST data from the following proposal: 9978 : S. Beckwith, S. Malhotra, M. Giavalisco, N. Panagia, J. Rhoads, M. Stiavelli, R. Somerville, S. Casertano, B. Margon, C. Blades, J. Caldwell, and M. Clampin (STScI), M. Corbin (STScI/CSC), M. Dickinson, H. Ferguson, and A. Fruchter (STScI), R. Hook (STScI/ECF), S. Jogee, A. Koekemoer, R. Lucas, M. Sosey, and L. Bergeron (STScI).

NICMOS HUDF Data The NICMOS HUDF data were from proposal 9803 : R. Thompson (University of Arizona), G. Illingworth and R. Bouwens (university of California, Santa Cruz), M. Dickinson (STScI), D. Eisenstein and X. Fan (University of Arizona), M. Franx (University of Leiden), M. Rieke (University of Arizona), A. Riess (STScI), and P. van Dokkum (Yale University).

The Spitzer science team includes: H. Yan (Caltech), M Dickinson (NOAO), D. Stern and P. Eisenhardt (Jet Propulsion Lab), R.-R. Chary (Caltech), M. Giavalisco (STScI), H. Ferguson and S. Casertano (STScI), C. Conselice (Caltech), C. Papovich (Steward Observatory), W. Reach (Caltech), N. Grogin (STScI), L. Moustakas (Jet Propulsion Lab), and M. Ouchi (STScI).