Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
Lynx Arc |
| Object Description: |
Gravitational Lens |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 08h 48m 48s.76
Dec. +44° 55' 49".6 |
| Constellation: |
Lynx |
| Distance: |
Approximately 12 billion light-years (4 billion parsecs). |
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| About the Data |
| Data Description: |
The object was imaged by Hubble during proposals 7374: P. Rosati (ESO), C. Norman, C. Mihos (CWRU), M. Dickinson, M. Giavalisco, and D. Macchetto (STScI) and proposal 8269: R. Elston (U. Florida), P. Eisenhardt, (JPL/Caltech), and A. Stanford (LLNL).The science team studying the arc is made up of R. Fosbury (ST-ECF), M. Villar-Martín and A. Humphrey (U. Hertfordshire, UK), M. Lombardi and P. Rosati (ESO), D. Stern (LLNL), R. Hook (STScI), B.Holden and A. Stanford (UC Davis), G. Squires (SIRTF/Caltech), M. Rauch (Obs. of the Carnegie Inst. of Washington), W. L. W. Sargent (Caltech). |
| Instrument: |
WFPC2 |
| Exposure Date(s): |
April 1999; January/April 2000 |
| Exposure Time: |
8 hours |
| Filters: |
F702W(R), F814W(I) |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
ESA, NASA and Robert A.E. Fosbury (European Space Agency/Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility, Germany) |
| Release Date: |
11:00 (CET) 30 October, 2003 |
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