Mission Overview
HST Photometry and Astrometry of the Bootes I Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxy (BOOCATS)
Primary Investigator: Imant Platais
HLSP Authors: Carrie Filion, Imants Platais, Rosemary Wyse, Vera Kozhurina-Platais
Released: 2022-09-27
Updated: 2022-09-27
Primary Reference(s):
DOI: 10.17909/g37r-1r51
Citations: See ADS Statistics
Source Data:
- Data DOI: 10.17909/t9-jr7h-en65
- Proposal ID: 15317
Left: A color (apparent) magnitude diagram of the sources in the photometric catalog that are likely stellar members of Bootes I (selected to have P_mem > 0.5).
Right: A vector-point diagram showing the relative proper motions of a subset of brighter sources in the astrometric catalog.
Overview
Bootes I is a nearby, relatively bright ultrafaint dwarf galaxy. This dataset consists of two catalogs of sources in the line-of-sight to this ultrafaint galaxy, produced from deep, optical imaging in three fields, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys, Wide Field Camera in the F606W and F814W filters. The first catalog contains photometry that the team produced for the sources in the field. The second catalog contains relative proper motions for a subset of the brighter sources, which could be measured with a baseline of ~7 years thanks to the existence of earlier-epoch, archival imaging.
Data Products
The data file naming convention for the catalog files is:
hlsp_boocats_hst_acs-wfc_booi_f606w-f814w_v1_astrometric-catalog.csv
hlsp_boocats_hst_acs-wfc_booi_f606w-f814w_v1_photometric-catalog.csv
Data file types:
| _photometric-catalog.csv | Catalog containing HST photometry in the Vega magnitude system |
| _astrometric-catalog.csv | Catalog containing relative proper motions |