Completing the ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey with WFPC2

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We are requesting 25 orbits of Director's Discretionary Time to complete the primary science goals of our highly-ranked ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury program ANGST. Our program lost ~2/3 of its orbits due to the ACS failure. Roughly half of these were restored as a result of an appeal to the Telescope Time Review Board which re-scoped the program. The Board's response to our appeal was explicit in terms of which targets were to be observed and how. We were directed to request Director's discretionary time for the components of the appeal which were not granted by the Review Board, but which were vital to the success of the program. The observing strategy for ANGST is two-fold: to obtain one deep field per galaxy which enables derivation of an accurate ancient star formation history, and to obtain radial tilings sufficient for recovering the full star formation history. The Review Board granted WFPC2 observations for deep fields in 7 galaxies, but no time for radial tilings. However, recovering the full star formation history of a galaxy is not possible without additional radial coverage. We have searched the archives for observations which may be used in place of the tilings conceding some of the Treasury goals, but providing significant constraints on the full star formation history, and have identified suitable observations for all but two of the galaxies. Here we request DD time for radial tilings for those last two galaxies.;

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