PAT COTE, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

PRINCETON ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM - APRIL 20, 2004

ABSTRACT

The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey

The Virgo Cluster is the dominant mass concentration in the Local Supercluster and the largest collection of elliptical and lenticular galaxies in the nearby universe. In this talk, I will describe a large program with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope to image 100 early-type galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. Beginning with an overview of the survey itself, I will describe the reduction pipeline, the program status, and present some early scientific results.