Telescopes Combine to Push Frontier on Galaxy Clusters
chandra_622b March 10th, 2016
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/G.Ogrean et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA
These two galaxy clusters are part of the "Frontier Fields" project, which uses some of the world's most powerful telescopes to study these giant structures with long observations. Galaxy clusters are enormous collections of hundreds or thousands of galaxies and vast reservoirs of hot gas embedded in massive clouds of dark matter. These images contain X-ray data from Chandra (blue), optical light from Hubble (red, green, and blue), and radio data from the Very Large Array (pink).
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/frontier/
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Image Use Policy: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
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Color Mapping
- ID
- 622b
- Subject Category
- D.5.5.3 D.6.2.3
- Subject Name
- MACS J0717.5+3745
- Credits
- X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/G.Ogrean et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA
- Release Date
- 2016-03-10
- Lightyears
- 5,400,000,000
- Redshift
- 5,400,000,000
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/frontier/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Chandra, Hubble, Hubble, Hubble, VLA
- Instrument
- ACIS, ACS, ACS, ACS, -
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Blue, Green, Red, Red
- Band
- X-ray, Optical, Optical, Optical, Radio
- Bandpass
- X-ray, B-band, -, I-band, S-band
- Central Wavelength
- 0.8267, 606, -, 814, 1.125e8
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 109.3870323, 37.7481384
- Reference Dimension
- 3600.0, 3600.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1801.0, 1801.0
- Scale
- 2.48025e-05, 2.4802486e-05
- Rotation
- -0.02
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS retrieved using CXCs PinpointWCS
- Creator (Curator)
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
- URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu
- Name
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617.496.7941
- Address
- 60 Garden St.
- City
- Cambridge
- State/Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
- Publisher
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- Publisher ID
- chandra
- Resource ID
- frontier_macsj0717.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/frontier/frontier_macsj0717.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-02-02T16:11:07-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
