A Catalog of Morphological Types in 10 Distant Rich Clusters of Galaxies
Smail, Ian; Ellis, Richard S.; Dressler, Alan; Oemler, Augustus, Jr.; Sharples, Ray M.; Couch, Warrick J.; Butcher, Harvey
United Kingdom, Austria, United States, Australia, Netherlands
Abstract
We present catalogs of objects detected in deep images of 11 fields in 10 distant clusters obtained using WFPC-2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The clusters span the redshift range z = 0.37-0.56 and are the subject of a detailed ground- and space-based study to investigate the evolution of galaxies as a function of environment and epoch. The data presented here include positions, photometry and basic morphological information on ~9000 objects in the fields of the 10 clusters. For a brighter subset of 1857 objects in these areas, we provide more detailed morphological information.
Based on observations obtained with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope which is operated by STScI for the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555.