Ground-Based View of J21500551 Region

esahubble_heic2005d March 31st, 2020

Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Wide-field image around the field of J21500551 (ground-based view), in which an intermediate-mass black hole named 3XMM J215022.4055108 has been detected.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic2005d/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: 3XMM J215022.4055108
Subject - Distant Universe: Star > Evolutionary Stage > Black Hole

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 21h 50m 24.9s; DEC = -5° 49’ 20.1”
Orientation: North is 0.4° CCW
Field of View: 2.0 x 1.5 degrees
Constellation: Aquarius

Color Mapping

Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
DSS2 (None)	Optical (B)	479.0 nm
DSS2 (None)	Optical (R)	649.0 nm

ID: heic2005d
Subject Category: D.3.1.10
Subject Name: 3XMM J215022.4055108
Credits: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Release Date: 2020-03-31T19:00:00
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Reference Url: https://esahubble.org/images/heic2005d/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes

Facility: Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
Instrument: None, None
Color Assignment: Cyan, Orange

Band: Optical, Optical
Bandpass: B, R
Central Wavelength: 479, 649

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Integration Time
Dataset ID: None, None
Notes

Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 327.603628738, -5.82226023489
Reference Dimension: 7279.0, 5257.0

Reference Pixel: 3639.5, 2628.5
Scale: -0.000280334734581, 0.000280334734581
Rotation: 0.40000000000000008
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
FITS Header
Notes

Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: https://esahubble.org
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Address: ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr
City: Baltimore
State/Province: MD

Postal Code: 21218
Country: United States
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: heic2005d

Resource URL: http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic2005d.tif
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Metadata Date: 2020-03-26T16:02:59+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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