HST Proposal

Deadlines

 * Phase I Proposals: Friday March 01, 2013 8:00 pm EST
 * Phase II Proposals & Budgets: Thursday June 27, 2013
 * E/PO Proposals: Wednesday August 21, 2013 5:00 pm EDT

Documents

 * The Proposal Call 21
 * Web Page


 * HST Primer for Cycle 21
 * Web Page


 * Phase I Proposal Roadmap for Cycle 21


 * HST Cycle 21 Scientific Justification Templates


 * HST Proposals and Abstracts with Publications

Instrument Handbooks

 * Advanced Camera for Surveys Instrument Handbook for Cycle 21
 * Cosmic Origins Spectrograph Instrument Handbook for Cycle 21
 * Wide Field Camera 3 Instrument Handbook for Cycle 21

Archival

 * An Astrostatistical Approach to Distant Galaxy Morphology - HST Proposal 12856
 * PI: Jennifer Lotz (STScI)


 * Reconstructing the Lives of Massive Galaxies: From Large Clumpy Star-Forming to Compact Quiescent Galaxies? - HST Proposal 12847
 * PI: Mariska Kriek (UCBerkeley)


 * Evolution of Early-Type Field Galaxies Since z~1: Insight into Physical Processes at Work - HST Proposal 12828
 * PI: Susan Kassin (Oak Ridge Associated Universities)


 * Groups of Galaxies in the CDFS: Tracing the Evolution of Galaxies from z=1.6 to the Present Day - HST Proposal 12831
 * PI: John Mulchaey (Carnegie)


 * New Constraints on Intracluster Light and the Baryon Budget in Massive Galaxy Clusters - HST Proposal 12634
 * PI: Anthony Gonzalez (UFlorida)


 * Ultra-Compact Dwarfs Across All Environments: Tracing Major and Minor Merger Histories - HST Proposal 12147
 * PI: Mark Norris (UNC Chapel Hill)


 * ACS Archival Study of Dry Mergers in the COSMOS field - HST Proposal 12122
 * PI: Vandana Desai (JPL)


 * Simulated HST Observations of Elliptical Galaxies in Formation - HST Proposal 11758
 * PI: Patrik Jonsson (CfA)


 * On the Road to Coma: A Longitudinal Study of Galaxy Cluster Evolution - HST Proposal 10650
 * PI: Erica Ellingson (UColorado Boulder)


 * S0 Evolution from Archival HST Images - HST Proposal 10683
 * PI: James Schombert (UOregon)


 * A Multi-Wavelength Study of Galaxy Mergers out to z ~2 - HST Proposal 10675
 * PI: Jennifer Lotz (STScI)


 * The Physical Nature of Galaxy Morphology During the Peak Epoch of Galaxy Formation - HST Proposal 10311
 * PI: Charles Steidel (Caltech)


 * Extremely Red Galaxies at z > 1 in the COSMOS Field - HST Proposal 10303
 * PI: Lin Yan (JPL)


 * Properties of moderate-redshift galaxy groups associated with gravitational lenses - HST Proposal 10300
 * PI: Christopher Fassnacht (UCDavis)


 * Structural Evolution of Galaxies with GOODS and the Ultra-Deep Field - HST Proposal 10298
 * PI: Seth Cohen (ASU)


 * Constraints on galaxy formation models from size evolution of galactic disks and spheroids - HST Proposal 10290
 * PI: Rachel Somerville (STScI)


 * The Construction of Elliptical Galaxies at High Redshifts - HST Proposal 9951
 * PI: S.Stanford (UCDavis)


 * Morphological and Structural Study of the Galaxies in Distant Cluster CL1322.5+3028 - HST Proposal 9949
 * PI: James Schombert (UOregon)


 * Nature & Evolution of Compact Galaxies in the GOODS-N Field - HST Proposal 9946
 * PI: Andrew Phillips (UCSC）


 * Archival Study of Red Galaxies in the Chandra Deep Field South - HST Proposal 9942
 * PI: Patrick McCarthy (Carnegie)


 * Morphological Evolution of Galaxies from the Present to z = 0.3-0.5 - HST Proposal 9940
 * PI: Barry Madore (Carnegie)


 * The Ages of Distant Field Galaxy Spheroids - HST Proposal 9937
 * PI: David Koo (UCSC)


 * The mass assembly history of early-type galaxies at z~1 - HST Proposal 9920
 * PI: Richard Ellis (Caltech)


 * The Spectral and Morphological Evolution of Galaxies - HST Proposal 9916
 * PI: Andrew Connolly (UWashington)


 * Comparing the ACS Ultra Deep Field to Low Redshift Galaxy Observations - HST Proposal 9912
 * PI: Michael Blanton (NYU)


 * Formation of Elliptical and S0 Galaxies in Clusters - HST Proposal 9541
 * PI: Pieter van Dokkum (Yale)


 * The Dependence of Environment on the Galaxy Merger Rate - HST Proposal 9533
 * PI: Christopher Conselice (UNottingham)


 * The Fundamental Plane of field early- type galaxies from z~ 0.7 to z=0 - HST Proposal 9222
 * PI: Tommaso Treu (Caltech)


 * Evolution of 1200 Field E/S0 Galaxies to z = 1 - HST Proposal 8767
 * PI: Msyungshin Im (JPL)


 * Color Gradients in Elliptical Galaxies at z = 0.5:, An Indicator of Galaxy Formation Processes - HST Proposal 8766
 * PI: Michael Pahre (CfA)


 * Morphology of Butcher-Oemler Galaxies - HST Proposal 8758
 * PI: James Schombert (UOregon)


 * A Search for Extremely Red Objects Using Archival WFPC2 Images - HST Proposal 8756
 * PI: Lin Yan (JPL)


 * The Fundamental Plane of Cluster Ellipticals at z = 0.18: Establishing the Local Baseline - HST Proposal 8762
 * PI: S. Djorgovski (Caltech)


 * The Morphology of Faint WFPC2 Galaxies - HST Proposal 8384
 * PI: Kavan Ratnatunga (CMU)


 * Quantitative NICMOS Structural Parameters of Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field - North - HST Proposal 8381
 * PI: David Koo (UCSC)


 * Rest-frame Galaxy Morphology at Intermediate to High Redshifts Using Archival NICMOS Images - HST Proposal 8357
 * PI: Ian Waddington (UBristol)


 * Early-Type Galaxies in Clusters at z ~ 1 - HST Proposal 7974
 * PI: S.Stanford (UCDavis)


 * Quantitative Morphology of Cluster - HST Proposal 7536
 * PI: Kavan Ratnatunga (CMU)


 * Kinematics and Structure of HDF Galaxies - HST Proposal 6960
 * PI: Garth Illingworth (UCSC)


 * Tracking the Red Envelope: Elliptical Galaxy Evolution in High Redshift Galaxy Clusters - HST Proposal 5790
 * PI: Peter Eisenhardt (JPL)

GO or Legacy

 * Size Growth at the Top: WFC3 Imaging of Ultra-Massive Galaxies at 1.5 < z < 3 - HST Proposal 12990
 * PI: Adam Muzzin (Leiden)
 * Images will be released from 10/2013 to 02/2014


 * The role of the environment in the growth of compact red galaxies at z~2 - HST Proposal 12927
 * PI: Andrew Newman (Caltech)
 * Images will be released from 10/2013 to 01/2014


 * At the Turn of the Tide: WFC3/IR Imaging and Spectroscopy of Two Galaxy Clusters at z~2 - HST Proposal 12896
 * PI: Kim-Vy Tran (TAMU)
 * Image from WFC3/F105W has been released


 * Galaxy Assembly at High Densities: HST Dissection of a Cluster at z=1.62 - HST Proposal 12590
 * PI: Casey Papovich (TAMU)
 * ACS+WFC3 images are released


 * New Constraints on Intragroup Light and the Baryon Budget in Galaxy Groups - HST Proposal 12575
 * PI: Anthony Gonzalez (UFlorida)
 * Images will be released from 04/2013 to 12/2013


 * The Brightest of Reionizing Galaxies Pure Parallel Survey - HST Proposal 12572
 * PI: Michele Trenti (UCambridge)


 * Super-Group 1120-1202: A Unique Laboratory for Tracing Galaxy Evolution in an Assembling Cluster at z=0.37 - HST Proposal 12470
 * PI: Kim-Vy Tran (TAMU)
 * All images will be released by 07/2013


 * Resolving the Matter of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z=1.5-2 - HST Proposal 12167
 * PI: Marijn Franx (Leiden)
 * Images from WFC3/F160W have been released


 * The Extreme Globular Cluster System of Abell 1689: The Ultimate Test of Universal Formation Efficiency - HST Proposal 11710
 * PI: John Blakeslee (DAO)
 * Images from ACS+WFC3 have been released


 * Formation and Evolution of Massive Galaxies in the Richest Environments at 1.5 < z < 2.0 - HST Proposal 11663
 * PI: Mark Brodwin (UMissouri)
 * Images from ACS+WFC3 have been released


 * Spectroscopy of IR-Selected Galaxy Clusters at 1 < z < 1.5 - HST Proposal 11597
 * PI: S.Stanford (UCDavis)
 * Images from ACS have been released


 * '''Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey
 * PI: Sandra Faber (UCSC)
 * Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey -- GOODS-South Field, Non-SNe-Searched Visits - HST Proposal 12060
 * Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey -- GOODS-South Field, Early Visits of SNe Search - HST Proposal 12061
 * Galaxy Assembly and the Evolution of Structure over the First Third of Cosmic Time - III - HST Proposal 12062
 * Galaxy Assembly and the Evolution of Structure over the First Third of Cosmic Time - I - HST Proposal 12063
 * Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey -- UDS Field - HST Proposal 12064
 * Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey -- GOODS-South Field, Non-SNe-Searched Visits - HST Proposal 12440
 * Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey -- GOODS-North Field, Non-SNe-Searched Visits - HST Proposal 12442
 * Galaxy Assembly and the Evolution of Structure over the First Third of Cosmic Time - III - HST Proposal 12443
 * Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey -- GOODS-North Field, Middle Visits of SNe Search - HST Proposal 12444
 * Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey -- GOODS-North Field, Late Visits of SNe Search - HST Proposal 12445

GALFIT Tests

 * Important Information for HUDF12 WFC3 Images
 * Image Size: 3600x3600
 * Exposure Time:
 * F105W: 333877.2
 * CCD Gain: 2.5
 * Pixel Scale: 0.06"/pixel


 * Zeropoints
 * F105W: 26.269
 * F125W: 26.230
 * F140W: 26.452
 * F160W: 25.946
 * F814W: 25.947


 * Test case 1: ID: #6747 PhotoZ=0.56
 * RA=53.16163  DEC=-27.78025
 * XC=1741      YC=2015
 * Fitting Box: 450:500


 * Test case 2: ID: #24279 PhotoZ=1.98
 * RA=53.163005 DEC=-27.797655
 * XC=1669      YC=971
 * Fitting Box: 100:100


 * Test case 3: ID: #24626 z=1.317
 * RA=53.16516  DEC=-27.78587
 * XC=1554      YC=1678
 * Fitting Box: 320:320


 * Test case 4: ID: #19389 z=1.345
 * RA=53.13573  DEC=-27.784932
 * XC=3116      YC=1735
 * Fitting Box: 140:140


 * Test case 5: ID: #4527  z=0.680
 * XC=2070      YC=1349
 * Fitting Box: 600:600

From HST High-Level Scientific Products

 * CANDELS
 * HST ACS/WFC3 images for COSMOS, GOODS-S, UDS regions (also GOODS-N and EGS)
 * CANDELS website at UCO/Lick
 * CANDELS website at MAST


 * CLASH
 * HST ACS/WFC3 images for 17 clusters at 0.2<z<0.7
 * CLASH website
 * CLASH website at STScI


 * COSMOS
 * With images from ACS/NICMOS/WFPC2
 * COSMOS website at Caltech
 * COSMOS archive at IRSA
 * COSMOS data at HLSP:
 * cosmos-v1
 * cosmos


 * GEMS-Galaxy Evolution From Morphology And SEDs
 * Images from ACS (focus on CDF-S)
 * GEMS website at MPIA
 * GEMS website at MAST


 * GOODS- The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey
 * Images from ACS (around HUDF-N and CDF-S)
 * GOODS website at STScI
 * GOODS website at ESO
 * GOODS website at MAST
 * GOODS-NICMOS survey
 * GNS website at Nottingham
 * GNS data at MAST


 * HDF/HDF-S/HUDF-09/HUDF-12/
 * HDF data at MAST
 * HDF-S data at MAST
 * UDF data at MAST
 * UDF-05 data at MAST
 * HUDF-09 data at MAST
 * HUDF-12 data at MAST
 * HUDF-09 website at STScI
 * HUDF-12 website at Arizona


 * STAGES- Space Telescope A901/A902 Galaxy Evolution Survey
 * Images from ACS
 * STAGES website at Nottingham
 * STAGES website at STScI


 * ERS-Wide Field Camera 3 Early Release Science Program
 * Images for GOODS-S/CDF-S Region
 * ERS Website at MAST
 * ERS Website at STScI


 * Other possible useful data:
 * HIPPIES data at MAST
 * BORG data at MAST

Other Proposals

 * HST Cycle 11 proposal 9476: Galaxy Evolution in the Richest Clusters at z=0.8: the EDisCS Cluster Sample
 * PI: Julianne Dalcanton
 * Proposal and Data at MAST


 * Around CFRS
 * HST Cycle 10 proposal 9149: The nature of the most luminous star-forming galaxies in the redshift range 0.4 to 1.5
 * PI: Francois Hammer
 * Proposal and Data at MAST
 * HST Cycle 6 proposal 6556: Rest-frame ultraviolet imaging of normal galaxies at high redshifts
 * PI: Simon Lilly
 * Proposal and Data at MAST


 * HST Cycle 20 proposal 13023: Universe in transition: powerful activity in the Bright Ages
 * PI: Marco Chiaberge
 * Proposal and Data at MAST


 * HST Cycle 20 proposal 12991: Red galaxies in CL J1449+0856 at z=2.07: the red sequence in the most distant galaxy cluster
 * PI: Veronica Strazzullo
 * Not Released
 * Proposal and Data at MAST


 * HST Cycle 20 proposal 12990: Size Growth at the Top: WFC3 Imaging of Ultra-Massive Galaxies at 1.5 < z < 3
 * PI: Adam Muzzin
 * Not Released
 * Proposal and Data at MAST


 * HST Cycle 20 proposal 12927: The role of the environment in the growth of compact red galaxies at z~2
 * PI: Andrew Newman
 * (Not Released)
 * Proposal and Data at MAST


 * HST Cycle 19 proposal 12757: A DETAILED CHANDRA/HST STUDY OF THE FIRST z approx 1 CLUSTER BLINDLY DISCOVERED IN THE PLANCK ALL SKY SURVEY
 * PI: Pasquale Mazzotta
 * Proposal and Data at MAST


 * HST Cycle 18 proposal 12167: Resolving the Matter of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z=1.5-2
 * PI: Marijn Franx
 * Proposal and Data at MAST


 * HST Cycle 16 proposal 11135: Extreme makeovers: Tracing the transformation of massive galaxies at z~2.5
 * PI: Mariska Kriek
 * Proposal and Data at MAST


 * HST Cycle 13 proposal 10152: A Snapshot Survey of a Complete Sample of X-ray Luminous Galaxy Clusters from Redshift 0.3 to 0.7
 * HST Cycle 14 proposal 10490: A Snapshot Survey of a Complete Sample of X-ray Luminous Galaxy Clusters from Redshift 0.3 to 0.7
 * PI: Megan Donahue
 * Proposal and Data at MAST
 * Porposal and Data at MAST

Other People's Works

 * EVOLUTION OF BRIGHTEST CLUSTER GALAXY STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS IN THE LAST ∼6 Gyr: FEEDBACK PROCESSES VERSUS MERGER EVENTS
 * Ascaso et al. 2011
 * 20 BCGs 0.3<z<0.6 from HST Archive
 * Size increase, but Sersic index do not; Author think feedback is the reason
 * ACS F814W images (proposal ID: 10490 and 10152; 2000s single pointing; 72 clusters; Mullis et al. 2003)
 * How to correct the color to rest-frame
 * Use GASP2D for surface brightness analysis
 * Catalog for data, no stellar mass


 * A compact early-type galaxy at z = 0.6 under a magnifying lens: evidence for inside-out growth
 * Auger et al. 2011
 * One massive compact ETG at z~0.63: M=10^10.9Msun; Re=1.1kpc
 * Fig(3) summarize Newman et al. 2010; Cimatti et al. 2008; Kriek et al. 2008 on Mass-Size relation
 * Fig(4) compare surface brightness


 * WHAT TURNS GALAXIES OFF? THE DIFFERENT MORPHOLOGIES OF STAR-FORMING AND QUIESCENT GALAXIES SINCE z~2 FROM CANDELS
 * Bell et al. 2012
 * UDS/CANDELS selected M>3x10^10Msun galaxies with 0.6<z<2.2
 * J- and K-band data for the UKIDDS UDS (Williams et al. 2009); B-, R-, i-, and z-band imaging from the SXDS (Furusawa et al. 2008) and 3.6 μm and 4.5 μm IRAC imaging data taken as part of the SWIRE survey (Lonsdale et al. 2003).
 * Photo-Z using EASY
 * 24 μm public data from the SpUDS survey of the UDS to separate star-forming and quiescent.
 * GALFIT/GALAPAGOS for morphology analysis
 * Public data
 * Fig(4)-(8): Nice illustration of evolution on Luminosity-Color relation
 * Quiescent disk and High-Sersic Star-forming


 * REDSHIFT EVOLUTION OF THE GALAXY VELOCITY DISPERSION FUNCTION
 * Bezanson et al. 2011
 * High-z galaxies from:
 * UDS data from Williams et al. 2009; 2010
 * NEWFIRM Medium-Band Survey (NMBS) of the COSMOS from Whitaker et al. 2011
 * Photo-z from EASY and Stellar mass from FAST
 * How to measure dynamical mass from sigma* and Sersic index, effective radius.


 * MASSIVE AND NEWLY DEAD: DISCOVERY OF A SIGNIFICANT POPULATION OF GALAXIES WITH HIGH-VELOCITY DISPERSIONS AND STRONG BALMER LINES AT z<1.5 FROM DEEP KECK SPECTRA AND HST/WFC3 IMAGING
 * Bezanson et al. 2013
 * Galaxies from UDS and NMBS in COSMOS; with either WFC3 or ACS image
 * InterRest for rest-frame color
 * Fig(2) for both spectra and image; with noticable residual
 * Catalog for data


 * THE STRUCTURES AND TOTAL (MINOR + MAJOR) MERGER HISTORIES OF MASSIVE GALAXIES UP TO z~3 IN THE HST GOODS NICMOS SURVEY: A POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO THE SIZE EVOLUTION PROBLEM
 * Bluck et al. 2012
 * 80 Massive galaxies at 1.7<z<3.0 from GOODS-NICMOS survey
 * The HST GNS images a total of 8298 galaxies in the F160W (H) band, utilizing 180 orbits and 60 pointings of the HST/NICMOS-3 camera
 * The GNS is complete in stellar mass down to 10^9.5 Msun
 * CAS estimations
 * Catalog available here

UKIDSS UDS

 * Summary information from Jarle's Website
 * UDS Website
 * Publications can be found here
 * Data from World Releas DR3


 * UKIDSS UDS is centered at the Subaru-XMM-Deep Fields (J0218-05)
 * The full UDS ﬁeld covers 0.8 sq degrees on the sky
 * The CANDELS WFC3/IR observations in the UDS ﬁeld consist of a rectangular grid of 4×11 WFC3/IR tiles (~8'.06×23'.08) which run East-to-West at a position angle of −90◦


 * K-Selected Catalog by Williams
 * Subaru Images Resampled to UKIDSS Data
 * Magellan/IMACS Spectroscopy of the UDS and COSMOS Fields

Related Publications

 * The sizes, masses and specific star formation rates of massive galaxies at 1.3 < z < 1.5: strong evidence in favour of evolution via minor mergers
 * The morphologies of massive galaxies at 1 < z < 3 in the CANDELS-UDS field: compact bulges, and the rise and fall of massive discs
 * Stellar kinematics of z~2 galaxies and the inside-out growth of quiescent galaxies
 * Evolution of Quiescent and Star-forming Galaxies since z ~ 1.5 as a Function of their Velocity Dispersions
 * HST/WFC3 Confirmation of the Inside-Out Growth of Massive Galaxies at 0<z<2 and Identification of their Star Forming Progenitors at z~3
 * CANDELS Observations of the Structural Properties of Cluster Galaxies at z = 1.62
 * Deep Absorption Line Studies of Quiescent Galaxies at z ~ 2: The Dynamical-mass-Size Relation and First Constraints on the Fundamental Plane
 * The Evolving Relations Between Size, Mass, Surface Density, and Star Formation in 3 × 104 Galaxies Since z = 2

COSMOS

 * Summary information from Jarle's Website
 * COSMOS Website at Caltech
 * VLA-COSMOS Project
 * zCOSMOS Data Release DR1
 * zCOSMOS Data Release


 * Ks-selected catalogs of the COSMOS/UltraVISTA field
 * The COSMOS HST ACS Observations Webpage
 * The NEWFIRM Medium-Band Survey Data Products
 * Magellan/IMACS Spectroscopy of the UDS and COSMOS Fields


 * The COSMOS ﬁeld is a 2-degree region of sky surveyed with the Hubble-ACS in the F814W band by the COSMOS Treasury Program (Koekemoer et al. 2007).
 * The COSMOS HST Treasury project was allocated 640 orbits in Cycles 12 & 13 to image a square 2 square degree field with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
 * The CANDELS WFC3/IR observations in the COSMOS ﬁeld consist of a rectangular grid of 4×11 WFC3/IR tiles

GOODS-S

 * Information on Jarle's Website
 * GOODS Website on STScI


 * The GOODS-South ﬁeld is a region of sky located near the southern Chandra Deep Field (Giacconi et al. 2002). which has been targeted for some of the deepest observations ever taken by NASA’s Great Observatories
 * The GOODS region of the ﬁeld has been imaged in the optical with Hubble-ACS in the B, V, i, and z-bands as part of the GOODS Hubble Treasury Program (P.I. Giavalisco).


 * ECDF-S Field is Also covered by MUSYC survey (photo-z)
 * Also covered by GEMS ACS survey
 * Also covered by the COMBO-17 project (photo-z)


 * ESO-GOODS Spectroscopy
 * Compilation of GOODS/CDF-S spectroscopy