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The COSMOS field (unannotated)

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eso_eso1124d July 13th, 2011

Credit: CFHT/IAP/Terapix/CNRS/ESO

This very deep image shows the COSMOS field imaged by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). Huge numbers of very faint galaxies are visible. A new study of this field, combining data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray space observatory has turned up a big surprise. Most of the huge black holes in the centres of active galaxies in the past 11 billion years were not turned on by mergers between galaxies, as had been previously thought.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1124d/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: COSMOS Field
Subject - Distant Universe: Cosmology > Morphology > Deep Field; Galaxy > Activity > AGN

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Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 10h 0m 25.1s; DEC = 2° 14’ 30.9”
Orientation: North is 1.6° CW
Field of View: 59.0 x 59.0 arcminutes
Constellation: Sextans

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	Other (None)	Infrared (I)	-
	Other (None)	Optical (R)	-
	Other (None)	Optical (G)	-

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ID: eso1124d
Subject Category: D.6.1.1 D.5.3.2
Subject Name: COSMOS Field
Credits: CFHT/IAP/Terapix/CNRS/ESO

Release Date: 2011-07-13T12:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1124d/

Type: Observation
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Distance Notes

Facility: Other, Other, Other
Instrument: None, None, None
Color Assignment: Red, Green, Blue

Band: Infrared, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: I, R, G
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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 150.104522172, 2.24192134858
Reference Dimension: 1280.0, 1280.0

Reference Pixel: 656.0, 682.0
Scale: -0.000768215616168, 0.000768215616168
Rotation: -1.57077307174
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Creator (Curator): European Southern Observatory
URL: http://www.eso.org/
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Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
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Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: European Southern Observatory
Publisher ID: eso
Resource ID: eso1124d

Resource URL: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1124d.tif
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Metadata Date: 2011-07-07T16:53:25+02:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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