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An Extrasolar Planet Census with a Space-based Microlensing Survey
D. P. Bennett, J. Anderson, J. -P. Beaulieu +14
A space-based gravitational microlensing exoplanet survey will provide a statistical census of exoplanets with masses down to 0.1 Earth-masses and orbital separations ranging from…
Empirical Corrections for Charge Transfer Inefficiency and Associated Centroid Shifts for STIS CCD Observations
Paul Goudfrooij, Ralph C. Bohlin, Jesus Maiz-Apellaniz +1
A variety of on-orbit imaging and spectroscopic observations are used to characterize the Charge Transfer Efficiency (CTE) of the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) of the Space Telescope…
The Detailed Star Formation History in the Spheroid, Outer Disk, and Tidal Stream of the Andromeda Galaxy
Thomas M. Brown, Ed Smith, Henry C. Ferguson +5
Using the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope, we have obtained deep optical images reaching stars well below the oldest main sequence turnoff in the spheroid…
HST/ACS Multiband Coronagraphic Imaging of the Debris Disk around Beta Pictoris
D. A. Golimowski, D. R. Ardila, J. E. Krist +40
(Abridged.) We present F435W (B), F606W (Broad V), and F814W (Broad I) coronagraphic images of the debris disk around Beta Pictoris obtained with HST's Advanced Camera for Surveys.…
Evolution of the Color-Magnitude Relation in High-Redshift Clusters: Blue Early-Type Galaxies and Red Pairs in RDCS J0910+5422
S. Mei, J. P. Blakeslee, S. A. Stanford +17
The color-magnitude relation has been determined for the RDCS J0910+5422 cluster of galaxies at redshift z = 1.106. Cluster members were selected from HST ACS images, combined with…
Clustering of Star-forming Galaxies Near a Radio Galaxy at z=5.2
Roderik A. Overzier, G. K. Miley, R. J. Bouwens +13
We present HST/ACS observations of the most distant radio galaxy known, TN J0924-2201 at z=5.2. This radio galaxy has 6 spectroscopically confirmed Lya emitting companion galaxies,…
Stellar Cluster Fiducial Sequences with the Advanced Camera for Surveys
Thomas M. Brown, Henry C. Ferguson, Ed Smith +6
We present color-magnitude diagrams of five Galactic globular clusters and one Galactic open cluster spanning a wide range of metallicity (-2.1 < [Fe/H] < +0.3), as observed in the…
Feedback and Brightest Cluster Galaxy Formation: ACS Observations of the Radio Galaxy TN J1338--1942 at z=4.1
Andrew W. Zirm, R. A. Overzier, G. K. Miley +12
We present deep optical imaging of the z=4.1 radio galaxy TN J1338--1942 obtained using the ACS on-board HST. The radio galaxy is known to reside within a large galaxy overdensity…
A Dynamical Simulation of the Debris Disk Around HD 141569A
D. R. Ardila, S. H. Lubow, D. A. Golimowski +36
We study the dynamical origin of the structures observed in the scattered-light images of the resolved debris disk around HD 141569A. We explore the roles of radiation pressure fro…
Evolution in the Cluster Early-type Galaxy Size-Surface Brightness Relation at z =~ 1
B. P. Holden, J. P. Blakeslee, M. Postman +7
We investigate the evolution in the distribution of surface brightness, as a function of size, for elliptical and S0 galaxies in the two clusters RDCS J1252.9-2927, z=1.237 and RX…
The Herbig Ae star HD 163296 in X-rays
Douglas A. Swartz, Jeremy J. Drake, Ronald F. Elsner +5
Chandra X-ray imaging spectroscopy of the nearby Herbig Ae star HD 163296 at 100 AU angular resolution is reported. A point-like, soft (kT~0.5 keV), emission-line source is detecte…
The Morphology - Density Relation in z ~ 1 Clusters
M. Postman, M. Franx, N. Cross +10
We measure the morphology--density relation (MDR) and morphology-radius relation (MRR) for galaxies in seven z ~ 1 clusters that have been observed with the Advanced Camera for Sur…
The Transformation of Cluster Galaxies at Intermeidate Redshift
N. L. Homeier, R. Demarco, P. Rosati +17
We combine imaging data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) with VLT/FORS optical spectroscopy to study the properties of star-forming galaxies in the z=0.837 cluster CL0152…
The Microlensing Planet Finder: Completing the Census of Extrasolar Planets in the Milky Way
D. P. Bennett, I. Bond, E. Cheng +21
The Microlensing Planet Finder (MPF) is a proposed Discovery mission that will complete the first census of extrasolar planets with sensitivity to planets like those in our own sol…
The Luminosity Function of Early-Type Galaxies at z~0.75
N. J. G. Cross, R. Bouwens, N. Benitez +35
We measure the luminosity function of morphologically selected E/S0 galaxies from to using deep high resolution Advanced Camera for Surveys imaging data. Our analys…
Ultra Compact Dwarf galaxies in Abell 1689: a photometric study with the ACS
S. Mieske, L. Infante, N. Benitez +37
The properties of Ultra Compact Dwarf (UCD) galaxy candidates in Abell 1689 (z=0.183) are investigated, based on deep high resolution ACS images. A UCD candidate has to be unresolv…
RR Lyrae Stars in the Andromeda Halo from Deep Imaging with the Advanced Camera for Surveys
Thomas M. Brown, Henry C. Ferguson, Ed Smith +4
We present a complete census of RR Lyrae stars in a halo field of the Andromeda galaxy. These deep observations, taken as part of a program to measure the star formation history in…
A large population of 'Lyman-break' galaxies in a protocluster at redshift z=4.1
George K. Miley, Roderik A. Overzier, Zlatan I. Tsvetanov +1
The most massive galaxies and the richest clusters are believed to have emerged from regions with the largest enhancements of mass density relative to the surrounding space. Distan…
Discovery of Globular Clusters in the Proto-Spiral NGC2915: Implications for Hierarchical Galaxy Evolution
G. R. Meurer, J. P. Blakeslee, M. Sirianni +30
We have discovered three globular clusters beyond the Holmberg radius in Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys images of the gas-rich dark matter dominated blue compac…
Faint Galaxies in deep ACS observations
N. Benitez, H. Ford, R. Bouwens +33
We present the analysis of the faint galaxy population in the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Early Release Observation fields VV 29 (UGC 10214) and NGC 4676. Here we attempt to…
Star Formation at z~6: i-dropouts in the ACS GTO fields
R. J. Bouwens, G. D. Illingworth, P. Rosati +33
Using an i-z dropout criterion, we determine the space density of z~6 galaxies from two deep ACS GTO fields with deep optical-IR imaging. A total of 23 objects are found over 46 ar…
Evidence for a Significant Intermediate-Age Population in the M31 Halo from Main Sequence Photometry
Thomas M. Brown, Henry C. Ferguson, Ed Smith +5
We present a color-magnitude diagram (CMD) for a minor-axis field in the halo of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), 51 arcmin (11 kpc) from the nucleus. These observations, taken with the…
HST/ACS Coronagraphic Imaging of the Circumstellar Disk around HD1415659A
M. Clampin, J. E. Krist, D. R. Ardila +31
Multicolor coronagraphic images of the circumstellar disk around HD141569A have been obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys. B, V, and I images…
Discovery of Two Distant Type Ia Supernovae in the Hubble Deep Field North with the Advanced Camera for Surveys
John P. Blakeslee, Zlatan I. Tsvetanov, Adam G. Riess +30
We present observations of the first two supernovae discovered with the recently installed Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope. The supernovae were foun…