A more informative picture of the HST Ultra Deep Field

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2004-06-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406274v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Hubble Space Telescope has obtained some of its well-deserved impact by producing stunning three-color (RGB) pictures from three-band imaging data. Here we produce a new RGB representation of the $I$, $V$, and $B$ bandpass images of the HST Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). Our representation is based on principles set forth elsewhere (Lupton et al 2004, PASP, 116, 133--137). The principal difference between our RGB representation of the data and the more traditional representation provided by the Space Telescope Science Institute is that the (necessarily) nonlinear transformation between data values and RGB values is done in a color-preserving (i.e., hue- and saturation-preserving) way. For example, if one of the image pixel values saturates the dynamic range of the RGB representation, all three of the R, G, and B values in the representation are truncated such that the hue and saturation of the pixel is the same as it would have been if the pixel had had lower flux but the same astronomical color. This, in effect, makes the bright parts of the representation an informative color map, not "whited out" as they are in traditional representations. For the HUDF, this difference is seen best in the centers of bright galaxies, which show significant detail not visible in the more traditional representation.

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