Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH)

DOI

By observing 25 massive galaxy clusters with HST's new panchromatic imaging capabilities (Wide-field Camera 3, WFC3, and the Advanced Camera for Surveys, ACS), CLASH will accomplish its four primary science goals: - Map, with unprecedented accuracy, the distribution of dark matter in galaxy clusters using strong and weak gravitational lensing; - Detect Type Ia supernovae out to redshift z ~ 2, allowing us to test the constancy of dark energy's repulsive force over time and look for any evolutionary effects in the supernovae themselves; - Detect and characterize some of the most distant galaxies yet discovered at z > 7 (when the Universe was younger than 800 million years old - or less than 6% of its current age); - Study the internal structure and evolution of the galaxies in and behind these clusters.

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.17909/T90W2B
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/mast.stsci/clash
Related Identifier http://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/clash/
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://mast.stsci/clash
Provenance
Creator PI: Marc Postman
Instrument ACS; WFC3
Publisher Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Publication Year 2011
OpenAccess true
Contact Archive Branch, STScI <archive(at)stsci.edu>
Representation
Resource Type Other; AstroObjects
Version 1.0
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; High Energy Astrophysics; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy