Intracluster light in Abell S1063
esahubble_heic1820a December 20th, 2018
Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Montes (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
Abell S1063, a galaxy cluster, was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope as part of the Frontier Fields programme. The huge mass of the cluster containing both baryonic matter and dark matter acts as cosmic magnification glass and deforms objects behind it. In the past astronomers used this gravitational lensing effect to calculate the distribution of dark matter in galaxy clusters. A more accurate and faster way, however, is to study the intracluster light (visible in blue), which follows the distribution of dark matter.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1820a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1820a
- Subject Category
- D.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- Abell S1063
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and M. Montes (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
- Release Date
- 2018-12-20T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1820a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Blue, Green, Green, Red, Red, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- B, V, I, Z, J, J/H, H
- Central Wavelength
- 435, 606, 814, 1050, 1250, 1400, 1600
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 342.185178681, -44.5300593385
- Reference Dimension
- 3213.0, 3600.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1606.5, 1800.0
- Scale
- -1.0777169521e-05, 1.0777169521e-05
- Rotation
- -7.3400000000000132
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic1820a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1820a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-12-12T10:14+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
