J/ApJS/169/213ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/169/213doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.21690213CDSJordan A.Blakeslee J.P.Cote P.Ferrarese L.Infante L.Mei S.,Merritt D.Peng E.W.Tonry J.L.West M.J.2018-01-05T08:56:15Z2009-07-07T20:31:40ZCDS support team

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cds-question@unistra.frgalaxy-clusterssurveysThe Fornax Cluster is a conspicuous cluster of galaxies in the southern hemisphere and the second largest collection of early-type galaxies within 20Mpc after the Virgo Cluster. In this paper, we present a brief introduction to the ACS Fornax Cluster Survey - a program to image, in the F475W (g_475_) and F850LP (z_850_) bandpasses, 43 early-type galaxies in Fornax using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope. Combined with a companion survey of Virgo, the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey, this represents the most comprehensive imaging survey to date of early-type galaxies in cluster environments in terms of depth, spatial resolution, sample size, and homogeneity. We describe the selection of the program galaxies, their basic properties, and the main science objectives of the survey, which include the measurement of luminosities, colors, and structural parameters for globular clusters associated with these galaxies, an analysis of their isophotal properties and surface brightness profiles, and an accurate calibration of the surface brightness fluctuation distance indicator. Finally, we discuss the data reduction procedures adopted for the survey.2007ApJS..169..213Jhttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/169/213CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toB/hst : HST Archived Exposures Catalog (STScI, 2007)VII/180 : Galaxies in Fornax Cluster and five nearby groupsJ/ApJS/153/223 : ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. I. (Cote+, 2004)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/169/213https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/169/213http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/169/213https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/169/213https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/169/213http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/169/213GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/ApJS/169/213/table3 (Log of observations for GO-10217)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/169/213/table3?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/169/213/table3?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/169/213/table3?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true50.673-37.20930560.0055555555555555565/8635 6/34492 34493 34509 34510 34511 34520 34521 34533 34534 34535 34537 34538 34539 34546 34552 34554 35910 35911 35928https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/ApJS/169/213?format=asciiOpticaldefaultJ/ApJS/169/213/table3Log of observations for GO-10217recnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintIDGalaxy identification numbermeta.idintNameGalaxy namemeta.id;meta.maincharDatasetACS dataset namemeta.id;meta.datasetcharObsUT date of the observationstime.epoch;obsnullableThetaPosition angle of the y axis of the WFC1 detectordegpos.posAngfloatExpExposure timestime.duration;obs.exposureintFiltACS filter used in the observationinstr.setup;obscharSimbadSimbad column added by the CDSchar_RARight Ascension (J2000) from SIMBAD (not part of the original data)degpos.eq.ra;meta.main_DEDeclination (J2000) from SIMBAD (not part of the original data)degpos.eq.dec;meta.main