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The Hubble Space Telescope Frontier Fields

Abell 2744 MACS J0416.1-2403 MACS J0717.5+3745 MACS J1149.5+2223 Abell S1063 Abell 370

This is the primary Archive website for accessing all the Hubble Space Telescope Frontier Fields program data, which is a new initiative
of six deep fields centered on strong lensing galaxy clusters (drawn from Abell et al. 1989) and the MACS survey (Ebeling et al. 2001), in
parallel with six deep "blank fields" adjacent to these clusters. Please refer also to the main Frontier Fields project website where
additional information is presented about the project, the team, and links to a blog. The program devotes 140 orbits to each
cluster/blank field pair, imaging them to AB ≈ 28.7-29 mag with ACS (F435W, F606W, F814W) and and WFC3/IR (F105W, F125W,
F140W, F160W). We are providing a variety of products for these clusters, including:

Observational data products (images and catalogs)

Lens models provided by the community

Also please visit the Spitzer Frontier Fields website for access to all the Spitzer data on the Frontier Fields.

Please also include the following acknowledgement in all publications that make use of these data;

Based on observations obtained with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, retrieved from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes
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 (MAST) at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy,
Inc. under NASA contract NAS 5-26555.

Zeropoints for all the HST mosaics (ACS and WFC3; ABmag; infinite aperture):
ACS WFC3
F435W F606W F814W F105W F125W F140W F160W
25.665 26.493 25.947 26.2687 26.2303 26.4524 25.9463

Latest news:

April 1, 2015: New v0.5 HST mosaics released for Epoch 2 of MACSJ0717.5+3745

We are pleased to announce new v0.5 HST mosaics for Epoch 2 of the cluster MACSJ0717.5+3745, from the observations of
this target from our Frontier Fields program ID 13498 (PI: J. Lotz). These mosaics complete the full depth obtained on Epoch 2
of this cluster, adding a further 42 orbits of WFC3/IR imaging in F105W, F125W, F140W and F160W on the main cluster,
along with ACS imaging in F435W and F814W on the parallel field, and completing the total exposure time of 70 orbits on
each field for this epoch, and 140 orbits total for this cluster. We have combined these data with archival data from program ID
12103 (PI: M. Postman), 13389 (PI: B. Siana), and 13459 (PI.: T. Treu), to create mosaics that are intended to contain the full
depth of WFC3/IR data on the main cluster and ACS data on the parallel field. These mosaics have all been processed
beyond the default pipeline calibration, including correction for time-variable background and persistence effects in WFC3/IR,
as well as self-calibration processing for ACS, and astrometric alignment to the previous mosaics that have already been
constructed for this cluster. Further details are provided in the readme file, which can be obtained along with all the mosaics at
the following location:

http://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/frontier/macs0717.html (MACSJ0717.5+3745 webpage)

http://archive.stsci.edu/pub/hlsp/frontier/macs0717/images/hst/v0.5-20150401/ (latest v0.5 mosaics for epoch 2)
http://archive.stsci.edu/pub/hlsp/frontier/macs0717/images/hst/v0.5-current/ (all current v0.5 mosaics for epoch 2)

Other Recent News and Products

Current HST observing schedule for these fields: (click the graphic for an interactive version):

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 Access to all HST data on these fields:
Via your browser:
http://archive.stsci.edu/pub/hlsp/frontier/ is the starting navigation point to all the data on these clusters.
FTP:
ftp archive.stsci.edu and login as anonymous.
cd /pub/hlsp/frontier
From there you can navigate through the site to find the field and data of interest.
WGET
You can download whole directories of data using wget commands like:
wget -nH --cut-dirs=5 -r -l0 -c -N -np -R 'index*' -erobots=off
http://archive.stsci.edu/pub/hlsp/frontier/macs0416/images/hst/

Data Directories [Click here to expand/retract]

Cluster Parallel Field HST Interactive

Cluster Name z
RA Dec RA Dec FOV Display
Year 1:

Abell 2744 0.308 00:14:21.2 -30:23:50.1 00:13:53.6 -30:22:54.3 Display

MACSJ0416.1-2403 0.396 04:16:08.9 -24:04:28.7 04:16:33.1 -24:06:48.7 Display

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 Year 2:

MACSJ0717.5+3745 0.545 07:17:34.0 +37:44:49.0 07:17:17.0 +37:49:47.3 Display

MACSJ1149.5+2223 0.543 11:49:36.3 +22:23:58.1 11:49:40.5 +22:18:02.3 Display

Year 3:
Abell S1063
0.348 22:48:44.4 -44:31:48.5 22:49:17.7 -44:32:43.8 Display
(RXCJ2248.7-4431)

Abell 370 0.375 02:39:52.9 -01:34:36.5 02:40:13.4 -01:37:32.8 Display

References:
Abell, G. O., Corwin, H. G., Jr., & Olowin, R. P. 1989, ApJS, 701, 1

Ebeling, H., Edge, A. C., Bohringer, H. et al. 1998, MNRAS, 301, 881

Ebeling, H., Edge, A. C. & Henry, J. P. 2001, ApJ, 553, 668

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