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March 10, 2014

Hubble Source Catalog

Filed under: Astroinformatics,Data — Patrick Durusau @ 4:51 pm

Beta Version 0.3 of the Hubble Source Catalog

From the post:

The Hubble Source Catalog (HSC) is designed to optimize science from the Hubble Space Telescope by combining the tens of thousands of visit-based source lists in the Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA) into a single master catalog.

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Beta Version 0.3 of the HSC contains members of the WFPC2, ACS/WFC, WFC3/UVIS and WFC3/IR Source Extractor source lists in HLA version DR7.2 (data release 7.2) that are considered to be valid detections because they have flag values less than 5 (see more flag information).

The crossmatching process involves adjusting the relative astrometry of overlapping images so as to minimize positional offsets between closely aligned sources in different images. After correction, the astrometric residuals of crossmatched sources are significantly reduced, to typically less than 10 mas. In addition, the catalog includes source nondetections. The crossmatching algorithms and the properties of the initial (Beta 0.1) catalog are described in Budavari & Lubow (2012) .

if you need training with this data set, see: A Hubble Source Catalog (HSC) Walkthrough

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