Deepest X-ray Image Ever Reveals Black Hole Treasure Trove
chandra_647 January 5th, 2017
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/B.Luo et al.
Made with over 7 million seconds of Chandra observing time, this image is part of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S) and is the deepest X-ray image ever obtained. With its unprecedented look at the early Universe in X-rays, the CDF-S gives astronomers the best look yet at the growth of black holes over billions of years starting soon after the Big Bang. In this image, low, medium, and high-energy X-rays that Chandra detects are shown as red, green, and blue respectively.
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2017/cdfs/
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Image Use Policy: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
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- ID
- 647
- Subject Category
- D.6.1.1 D.5.4.6
- Subject Name
- Chandra Deep Field South
- Credits
- X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/B.Luo et al.
- Release Date
- 2017-01-05
- Lightyears
- 11,000,000,000
- Redshift
- 11,000,000,000
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2017/cdfs/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Chandra, Chandra, Chandra
- Instrument
- ACIS, ACIS, ACIS
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- X-ray, X-ray, X-ray
- Bandpass
- High X-ray, Medium X-ray, Soft X-ray
- Central Wavelength
- 0.19, 0.38, 0.62
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 53.1170295, -27.8097471
- Reference Dimension
- 3600.0, 3600.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1801.0, 1801.0
- Scale
- 7.85114e-05, 7.8511402e-05
- Rotation
- 0.03
- 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
- cdfs.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2017/cdfs/cdfs.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2017-01-09T12:02:36-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
