Chandra Deep Field-North

Esahubble_opo0318b_1024

esahubble_opo0318b June 19th, 2003

Credit: NASA/ESA/CXC/Penn State/D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, W.N. Brandt et al.

The Chandra Deep Field-North image was made by observing an area of the sky over half the size of the full moon for 23 days. It is the most sensitive or "deepest" X-ray exposure ever made. By combining the Chandra and Hubble data for this field, astronomers can take a census of the fraction of young galaxies that contain active supermassive black holes back to a time when the universe was only about one billion years old, less than 10 percent of its present age. The data show that these very distant supermassive black holes are rare, more so than some expected.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0318b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
CDF-N Chandra Deep Field North
Subject - Distant Universe
Cosmology > Morphology > Deep Field
Esahubble_opo0318b_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 12h 36m 53.0s
DEC = 62° 15’ 0.4”
Orientation
North is 44.9° CW
Field of View
18.1 x 18.1 arcminutes
Constellation
Ursa Major

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Chandra (ACIS) X-ray (Soft X-ray) 200.0 pm
Green Chandra (ACIS) X-ray (Soft X-ray) 410.0 pm
Blue Chandra (ACIS) X-ray (Soft X-ray) 1.65 nm
Spectrum_xray1
Red
Green
Blue
Esahubble_opo0318b_1280
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ID
opo0318b
Subject Category
D.6.1.1  
Subject Name
CDF-N, Chandra Deep Field North
Credits
NASA/ESA/CXC/Penn State/D.M. Alexander, F.E. Bauer, W.N. Brandt et al.
Release Date
2003-06-19T16:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0318b/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Chandra, Chandra, Chandra
Instrument
ACIS, ACIS, ACIS
Color Assignment
Red, Green, Blue
Band
X-ray, X-ray, X-ray
Bandpass
Soft X-ray, Soft X-ray, Soft X-ray
Central Wavelength
0.2, 0.41, 1.65
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
189.220710594, 62.2501098994
Reference Dimension
2400.0, 2400.0
Reference Pixel
1200.0, 1200.0
Scale
-0.000125519529234, 0.000125519529234
Rotation
-44.940000000000033
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
opo0318b
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:25:08+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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