NICMOS Calibration Challenges in the Ultra Deep Field (2009)
A. M. Koekemoer, P. Goudfrooij, L. L. Dressel, Rodger I. Thompson
Abstract. The reduction of NICMOS observations in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field required unique reduction and calibration techniques, not required for images containing brighter sources. This paper...
An Observational Determination of the Proton to Electron Mass Ratio in the Early Universe (2009)
Thompson, Rodger I., Bechtold, Jill, Black, John H., Eisenstein, Daniel, Fan, Xiaohui, Kennicutt, Robert C., ...
In an effort to resolve the discrepancy between two measurements of the fundamental constant mu, the proton to electron mass ratio, at early times in the universe we reanalyze the same data used in...
Alternative Data Reduction Procedures for UVES: Wavelength Calibration and Spectrum Addition (2008)
Thompson, Rodger I., Bechtold, Jill, Black, John H.
This paper addresses alternative procedures to the ESO supplied pipeline procedures for the reduction of UVES spectra of two quasar spectra to determine the value of the fundamental constant mu =...
Super Star Clusters in SBS0335-052E (2008)
Thompson, Rodger I., Sauvage, Marc, Kennicutt, Robert C., Engelbracht, Charles, Vanzi, Leonardo, Schneider, Glenn
As one of the lowest metallicity star forming galaxies, with a nucleus of several super star clusters, SBS0335-052E is the subject of substantial current study. We present new insights on this galaxy...
NICMOS Measurements of the Near Infrared Background (2008)
Thompson, Rodger I., Eisenstein, Daniel, Fan, Xiaohui, Rieke, Marcia, Kennicutt, Robert
This paper addresses the nature of the near infrared background. We investigate whether there is an excess background at 1.4 microns, what is the source of the near infrared background and whether...
Glenn Schneider, Bradford A. Smith, E. E. Becklin, David W. Koerner, Dean C. Hines, Patrick J. Lowrance, ...
We report the first near-infrared (NIR) imaging of a circumstellar annular disk around the young (∼8 Myr), Vega-like star HR 4796A. NICMOS coronagraph observations at 1.1 and 1.6 mm reveal a...
Patrick J. Lowrance, Dean C. Hines, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, David W. Koerner, Frank Low, Marcia Rieke, ...
We present the discovery of a candidate substellar object in a survey of young stars in the solar vicinity using the sensitivity and spatial resolution afforded by the NICMOS coronagraph on the...
NICMOS Imaging of Damped Ly- Absorbers at z = 2 (2007)
Varsha P. Kulkarni, John M. Hill, Glenn Schneider, Ray J. Weymann, Marcia J. Rieke, ...
Abstract. We report results from deep NICMOS imaging of the elds of two damped Lyman- (DLA) quasar absorbers at z DLA = 1:89 and z DLA = 1:86. The images were obtained in the broad lter F160W and the...
PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS AND MORPHOLOGIES OF GALAXIES IN THE NICMOS (2007)
Parallel Fields, Michael R. Corbin, William D. Vacca, Earl Oïneil, Rodger I. Thompson, Marcia J. Rieke, ...
We present positions, magnitudes, sizes, and morphological classiÐcations for 111 galaxies discovered in the Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS camera 1 and camera 2 parallel Ðelds. We combine the...
Michael R. Corbin, Andrea Urban, Elizabeth Stobie, Rodger I. Thompson, Glenn Schneider
We use the ultraviolet and optical WFPC2 and near-infrared NICMOS images of the Hubble Deep FieldÈNorth to measure and statistically compare an array of parameters for over 250 of the galaxies it...
Michael R. Corbin, Earl Oïneil, Rodger I. Thompson, Marcia J. Rieke, Glenn Schneider
We present a photometric analysis of all high Galactic latitude ( o b o [ 20¡) broadband parallel images taken by the Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer instrument of the Hubble...
Evidence for a Z < 8 Origin of the Source Subtracted Near Infrared Background (2007)
Thompson, Rodger I., Eisenstein, Daniel, Fan, Xiaohui, Rieke, Marcia, Kennicutt, Robert C.
This letter extends our previous fluctuation analysis of the near infrared background at 1.6 microns to the 1.1 micron (F110W) image of the Hubble Ultra Deep field. When all detectable sources are...
Constraints on the Cosmic Near Infrared Background Excess from NICMOS Deep Field Observations (2006)
Thompson, Rodger I., Eisenstein, Daniel, Fan, Xiaohui, Rieke, Marcia, Kennicutt, Robert C.
NICMOS observations of the resolved object fluxes in the Hubble Deep Field North and the Hubble Ultra Deep Field are significantly below the fluxes attributed to a 1.4 - 1.8 microns Near InfraRed...
Star Formation History of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Comparison with the HDFN (2006)
Thompson, Rodger I., Eisenstein, Daniel, Fan, Xiaohui, Dickinson, Mark, Illingworth, Garth, Kennicutt, Robert C.
We use the NICMOS Treasury and ACS HUDF images to measure the extinction corrected star formation history for 4681 galaxies in the region common to both images utilizing the star formation rate...
Delayed Photoionization Feedback in a Super Star Cluster in SBS0335-052E (2005)
Thompson, Rodger I., Sauvage, Marc, Kennicutt, Robert C., Engelbracht, Charles, Vanzi, Leonardo
SBS0335-052 is a well studied Blue Compact Dwarf galaxy with one of the lowest metallicities of any known galaxy. It also contains 6 previously identified Super Star Clusters. We combine archival HST...
A Cosmic Relation between Extinction and Star Formation (2005)
Zoran, Oren, Barkana, Rennan, Thompson, Rodger I.
We study the relation between the star formation intensity of galaxies and the extinction by dust of their emitted light. We employ a detailed statistical analysis of Hubble Deep Field North data to...
The NICMOS Ultra Deep Field: Observations, Data Reduction, and Galaxy Photometry (2005)
Thompson, Rodger I., Illingworth, Garth, Bouwens, Rychard, Dickinson, Mark, Eisenstein, Daniel, Fan, Xiaohui, ...
This paper describes the observations and data reduction techniques for the version 2.0 images and catalog of the NICMOS Ultra Deep Field Treasury program. All sources discussed in this paper are...
Constraints on z~10 Galaxies from the Deepest HST NICMOS Fields (2005)
Bouwens, Rychard J., Illingworth, Garth D., Thompson, Rodger I., Franx, Marijn
We use all available fields with deep NICMOS imaging to search for J dropouts (H1.8. 11 such sources were found in all search fields using this criterion. 8 of these were clearly ruled out as...
Galaxies at z~7-8: z-dropouts in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (2004)
Bouwens, Rychard J., Thompson, Rodger I., Illingworth, Garth D., Franx, Marijn, Van Dokkum, Pieter, Fan, Xaiohui, ...
We have detected likely z~7-8 galaxies in the 144"x144" NICMOS observations of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Objects are required to be >3 sigma detections in both NICMOS bands, J and H. The selection...
Star Formation History and Other Properties of the Northern HDF (2003)
The original analysis of the star formation history in the NICMOS Deep images of the NHDF is extended to the entire NHDF utilizing NICMOS and WFPC2 archival data. The roughly constant star formation...
High Redshift Candidates and the Nature of Small Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (2003)
Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa J., Weymann, Ray J., Thompson, Rodger I.
We present results on two related topics: 1. A discussion of high redshift candidates (z>4.5), and 2. A study of very small galaxies at intermediate redshifts, both sets being detected in the region...
Matching the Observed Star Formation Intensity Distribution with Empirical Laws (2002)
This letter matches the shape of the star formation intensity distribution function to empirical laws such as the Schmidt law. The shape of the distribution at a redshift of one is reproduced from...
Jensen, Joseph B., Tonry, John L., Barris, Brian J., Thompson, Rodger I., Liu, Michael C., Rieke, Marcia J., ...
To empirically calibrate the IR surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) distance scale and probe the properties of unresolved stellar populations, we measured fluctuations in 65 galaxies using NICMOS on...
Embedded Star Formation in the Eagle Nebula (2002)
Thompson, Rodger I., Smith, Bradford A., Hester, J. Jeff
M16=NGC 6611, the Eagle Nebula, is a well studied region of star formation and the source of a widely recognized Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image. High spatial resolution infrared observations with...
The Location of the Nucleus and the Morphology of Emission-Line Regions in NGC 1068 (2001)
Thompson, Rodger I., Chary, Ranga-Ram, Corbin, Michael R., Epps, Harland
This paper presents NICMOS images of the nucleus and emission line regions in NGC 1068. The location of the nucleus relative to the emission line features is established and the physics underlying...
Riess, Adam G., Nugent, Peter E., Schmidt, Brian P., Tonry, John, Dickinson, Mark, Gilliland, Ronald L., ...
We present photometric observations of an apparent Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) at a redshift of ~1.7, the farthest SN observed to date. SN 1997ff, was discovered in a repeat observation by the HST of...
Riess, Adam G., Nugent, Peter E., Schmidt, Brian P., Tonry, John, Dickinson, Mark, Gilliland, Ronald L., ...
We present photometric observations of an apparent Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) at a redshift of approximately 1.7, the farthest SN observed to date. The supernova, SN 1997, was discovered in a repeat...
Adam G. Riess, Peter E. Nugent, Ronald L. Gilliland, Brian P. Schmidt, John Tonry, Mark Dickinson, ...
We present photometric observations of an apparent Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) at a redshift of D1.7, the farthest SN observed to date. The supernova, SN 1997+, was discovered in a repeat observation...
A Multivariate Analysis of Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field North (2000)
Corbin, Michael R., Urban, Andrea, Stobie, Elizabeth, Thompson, Rodger I., Schneider, Glenn
We use the ultraviolet and optical WFPC2 and near-infrared NICMOS images of the Hubble Deep Field North to measure and statistically compare an array of parameters for over 250 of the galaxies it...
A Search for the Damped Ly-alpha Absorber at z=1.86 toward QSO 1244+3443 with NICMOS (2000)
Kulkarni, Varsha P., Hill, John M., Schneider, Glenn, Weymann, Ray J., Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa J., Rieke, Marcia J., ...
We have carried out a high-resolution imaging search for the galaxy associated with the damped Lyman-alpha (DLA) absorber at z=1.859 toward the z_{em}=2.48 quasar QSO 1244+3443, using the HST and the...
The Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuation Hubble Constant (2000)
Jensen, Joseph B., Tonry, John L., Thompson, Rodger I., Ajhar, Edward A., Lauer, Tod R., Rieke, Marcia J., ...
We measured infrared surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) distances to an isotropically-distributed sample of 16 distant galaxies with redshifts reaching 10,000 km/s using the near-IR camera and...
Star Formation History in the Nicmos Northern Hubble Deep Field (2000)
Thompson, Rodger I., Weymann, Ray J., Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa J.
This paper presents the star formation history in the NICMOS Northern Deep HDF. It uses the techniques of photometric redshifts and extinctions to correct for extinction of the ultra-violet flux. It...
A Color Analysis of the NICMOS Parallel Image Archive (2000)
Corbin, Michael R., O'Neil, Earl, Thompson, Rodger I., Rieke, Marcia J., Schneider, Glenn
We present a photometric analysis of all high Galactic lattitude (|b| > 20d) broad-band parallel images taken by the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) instrument during its...
The Initial Mass Function of Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in Young Clusters (2000)
Luhman, K. L., Rieke, G. H., Young, Erick T., Cotera, Angela S., Chen, H., Rieke, Marcia J., ...
We have obtained images of the Trapezium Cluster (140" x 140"; 0.3 pc x 0.3 pc) with the Hubble Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). Combining these data with...
Kulkarni, Varsha P., Hill, John M., Schneider, Glenn, Weymann, Ray J., Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa J., Rieke, Marcia J., ...
We report results of a high-resolution imaging search (in rest frame H-$\alpha$ and optical continuum) for the galaxy associated with the damped Lyman-$\alpha$ (DLA) absorber at $z=1.892$ toward the...
NICMOS Imaging of the HR 4796A Circumstellar Disk (1999)
Schneider, Glenn, Smith, Bradford A., Becklin, E. E., Koerner, David W., Meier, Roland, Hines, Dean C., ...
We report the first near infrared (NIR) imaging of a circumstellar annular disk around the young (~8 Myr), Vega-like star, HR 4796A. NICMOS coronagraph observations at 1.1 and 1.6 microns reveal a...
Rodger I. Thompson, J. Weymann
This paper presents data obtained during the NICMOS Guaranteed Time Observations of a portion of the Hubble Deep Field. The data are in a catalog format similar to the publication of the original...
Rodger I. Thompson, Garth Illingworth, Rychard Bouwens, Mark Dickinson, Daniel Eisenstein, Xiaohui Fan, ...
This paper describes the observations and data reduction techniques for the version 2.0 images and catalog of the Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Ultra Deep Field (NICMOS UDF)...
Thompson, Rodger I., Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa J., Weymann, Ray J., Rieke, Marcia J., Schneider, Glenn, Stobie, Elizabeth, ...
This paper contains a catlog of sources observed in a portion of the Hubble Deep Field by the NICMOS instrument. Methods of observation and data analysis are discussed. The catalog has two parts. The...
Rodger I. Thompson, Marcia Rieke, Glenn Schneider, Dean C. Hines, Michael R. Corbin
On 1997 February 13, Space Shuttle astronauts placed the Near-Infrared Camera and Multiobject Spectrometer (NICMOS) into the Hubble Space Telescope. Following installation, the servicing mission...
Rodger I. Thompson, Michael R. Corbin, Erick Young, Glenn Schneider
As part of its commissioning process the Near-Infrared Camera and Multiobject Spectrometer (NICMOS) obtained images of the infrared source NGC 2264 IRS, also known as Allen’s source, in three...
Raghvendra Sahai, Dean C. Hines, Joel H. Kastner, David A. Weintraub, John T. Trauger, Marcia J. Rieke, ...
High-resolution near-infrared (1.65–2.1 mm) images and 2 mm polarimetric images of the inner 19�.5 # 19�.3 region of the bipolar protoplanetary nebula CRL 2688, taken with the newly installed...