The Hubble Deep Field South: Project Description

Last updated July 1, 1998

In December, 1995 the Hubble Space Telescope pointed at a undistinguished high-galactic latitude patch of sky and observed for 10 straight days. The result was the deepest optical image of the sky yet obtained, allowing sources as faint as V = 30 in four bandpasses spanning the near-UV to the near-IR ( Williams et al. 1996 ). The data were released to the community within one month of the observations and have been used in a wide variety of projects and publications, ranging from studies of the star-formation rate as a function of redshift, to studies of faint M dwarfs in the Galactic halo.