The GOODS NICMOS Survey (GNS) is a 180 orbit Hubble Space Telescope survey consisting of 60 pointings with the NICMOS-3 near-infrared camera. Each pointing is centred on a massive galaxy (M* > 1011 Msun) in the redshift range 1.7 < z < 3, selected by their optical-to-infrared colours (Papovich+06,Yan+04,Daddi+07) from the GOODS (Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey) fields.

The positions of the 60 GNS pointings were optimised to contain as many massive galaxies as possible and are partly overlapping, covering a total area of about 45 arcmin2. The field of view of the NICMOS-3 camera is 51.2 × 51.2 arcsec with a resolution of about 0.1 arcsec/pixel. The PSF has a width of about 0.3 arcsec FWHM. The limiting magnitude in H band reached at 5σ is HAB = 26.8, about 2 magnitudes fainter than in available ground based data of the GOODS fields. [Taken from reference website.] Provenance: University of Nottingham, GNS group.. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.