Deep fields & lensing

Abell 1689 Hubble ACS/WFC

August 19, 2010 · NASA · Virgo

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About the colours

Blue: F475W (g) Green: F775W (i) Red: F850LP (z)

About the data

ACS/WFC data of Abell 1689 were observed with the HST proposal 9289 : H. Ford and N. Benitez (Johns Hopkins University), and T. Broadhurst (Tel Aviv University).

The science team for this release includes: E. Jullo (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), P. Natarajan (Yale University), J.-P. Kneib (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, CNRS, France), A. D'Aloisio (Yale University), M. Limousin (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille and University of Copenhagen, Denmark), J. Richard (Durham University, U.K.), and C. Schimd (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, CNRS, France).

Facts

Object: Abell 1689
Constellation: Virgo
Distance: The distance to the lensing cluster is 2.2 billion light-years (675…
Released: August 19, 2010
Position: RA 13h 11m 30s · Dec −1° 20′ 17″
Instrument: HST>ACS/WFC
Filters: F475W (g) F775W (i) F850LP (z)
Observed: June 12-21, 2002, Exposure Time: 10.5 hours
Image size: 3,853 × 4,000 px
Category: Deep fields & lensing
Source: NASA

Credit

NASA , ESA , E. Jullo (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), P. Natarajan (Yale University), and J.-P. Kneib (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, CNRS, France)…