As part of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS),
deep imaging in the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S) has been carried out,
using the VIMOS instrument mounted at the Melipal Unit Telescope of
the VLT at ESO's Cerro Paranal Observatory, Chile.
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This data release contains the coadded images in U band from the ESO large programme
168.A-0485 (P.I. C. Cesarsky) which have been obtained in
service mode observations between August 2004 and fall 2006.
The 1-sigma depth for VIMOS U band in the area covered by the GOODS-ACS observations
is ~30 AB (within an aperture of 1" radius, ranging from 29.5 and 30.2 AB).
The PSF of the VIMOS U band mosaic is ~0.8" FWHM, but varies over the field.
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Also included in this data release is a coadded image in R band obtained from
data retrieved from the ESO archive. Due to the different observing strategies
adopted in the programmes the resulting coverage of the GOODS-ACS
area is more complex than for the U band.
The depth of the VIMOS R band mosaic over the ACS area ranges from ~28 AB to 29 AB
(1-sigma, 1" aperture radius).
The PSF of the VIMOS R band mosaic is ~0".7 FWHM and varies over the field.
[Adapted from reference website.] Provenance: Data downloaded from VLT archive. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.