Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
1E0657-556, 1ES 0657-55.8 |
| Object Description: |
Cluster of Galaxies |
| Position (J2000): |
R.A. 06h 58m 27s.40
Dec. -55° 56' 47 ".0 |
| Constellation: |
Carina |
| Distance: |
3.4 billion light years (1 billion parsecs) |
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| About the Data |
| Data Description: |
This image was is a compilation of data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and the Magellean telescope at Las Campanas Observatory. The HST component was created from data from proposal 10200: C. Jones and W. Forman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Gonzalez (University of Florida), D. Clowe (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona), M. Markevitch (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics).
The science team comprises D. Clowe (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona), Marusa Bradac (Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford), A. Gonzalez (University of Florida), M. Markevitch, S. Randall, and C. Jones (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), and D. Zaritsky (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona)
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| Instrument: |
HST: ACS/WFC |
| Exposure Date(s): |
October 21, 2004 |
| Exposure Time: |
4.7 days |
| Filters: |
F435W(B), F606W(V) and F814W(I) |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
X-ray: NASA/CXC/M.Markevitch et al.
Optical: NASA/STScI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al.
Lensing Map: NASA/STScI; ESO WFI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al. |
| Release Date: |
August 21, 2006 |
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