Scylla. I. A Pure-parallel, Multiwavelength Imaging Survey of the ULLYSES Fields in the LMC and SMC

Claire E. Murray; Christina W. Lindberg; Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones; Benjamin F. Williams; Roger E. Cohen; Karl D. Gordon; Kristen B. W. McQuinn; Yumi Choi; Clare Burhenne; Karin M. Sandstrom; Caroline Bot; L. Clifton Johnson; Steven R. Goldman; Christopher J. R. Clark; Julia C. Roman-Duval; Karoline M. Gilbert; J. E. G. Peek; Alec S. Hirschauer; Martha L. Boyer; Andrew E. Dolphin

doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ad6de2

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (Jan 2024)

Scylla. I. A Pure-parallel, Multiwavelength Imaging Survey of the ULLYSES Fields in the LMC and SMC

Claire E. Murray,
Christina W. Lindberg,
Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones,
Benjamin F. Williams,
Roger E. Cohen,
Karl D. Gordon,
Kristen B. W. McQuinn,
Yumi Choi,
Clare Burhenne,
Karin M. Sandstrom,
Caroline Bot,
L. Clifton Johnson,
Steven R. Goldman,
Christopher J. R. Clark,
Julia C. Roman-Duval,
Karoline M. Gilbert,
J. E. G. Peek,
Alec S. Hirschauer,
Martha L. Boyer,
Andrew E. Dolphin

Affiliations

Claire E. Murray: ORCiD; Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA ; [email protected]; The William H. Miller III Department of Physics & Astronomy, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University , 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Christina W. Lindberg: ORCiD; Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA ; [email protected]; The William H. Miller III Department of Physics & Astronomy, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University , 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones: ORCiD; Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA ; [email protected]
Benjamin F. Williams: ORCiD; Department of Astronomy, University of Washington , Box 351580, U. W., Seattle, WA 98195-1580, USA
Roger E. Cohen: ORCiD; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey , 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Karl D. Gordon: ORCiD; Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA ; [email protected]
Kristen B. W. McQuinn: ORCiD; Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA ; [email protected]; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey , 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Yumi Choi: ORCiD; NSF National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
Clare Burhenne: ORCiD; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey , 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Karin M. Sandstrom: ORCiD; Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Caroline Bot: ORCiD; Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg , UMR 7550, 11 rue de l’Université, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
L. Clifton Johnson: ORCiD; Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University , 1800 Sherman Avenue, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
Steven R. Goldman: ORCiD; Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA ; [email protected]
Christopher J. R. Clark: ORCiD; AURA for the European Space Agency, Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Julia C. Roman-Duval: ORCiD; Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA ; [email protected]
Karoline M. Gilbert: ORCiD; Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA ; [email protected]; The William H. Miller III Department of Physics & Astronomy, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University , 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
J. E. G. Peek: ORCiD; Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA ; [email protected]; The William H. Miller III Department of Physics & Astronomy, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University , 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Alec S. Hirschauer: ORCiD; Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA ; [email protected]
Martha L. Boyer: ORCiD; Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA ; [email protected]
Andrew E. Dolphin: ORCiD; Raytheon Company , 1151 E. Hermans Road, Tucson, AZ 85756, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ad6de2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 275, no. 1
p. 5

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Scylla is a deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) survey of the stellar populations, interstellar medium, and star formation in the LMC and SMC. As a pure-parallel complement to the Ultraviolet Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential Standards (ULLYSES) survey, Scylla obtained 342 orbits of ultraviolet (UV) through near-IR imaging of the LMC and SMC with Wide Field Camera 3. In this paper, we describe the science objectives, observing strategy, data reduction procedure, and initial results from our photometric analysis of 96 observed fields. Although our observations were constrained by ULLYSES primary exposures, we imaged all fields in at least two filters (F475W and F814W) and 64% of fields in at least three and as many as seven WFC3 filters spanning the UV to IR. Overall, we reach average 50% completeness of m _F225W = 26.0, m _F275W = 26.2, m _F336W = 26.9, m _F475W = 27.8, m _F814W = 25.5, m _F110W = 24.7, and m _F160W = 24.0 Vega mag in our photometric catalogs, which is faintward of the ancient main-sequence turnoff in all filters. The primary science goals of Scylla include characterizing the structure and properties of dust in the MCs, as well as their spatially resolved star formation and chemical enrichment histories. Our images and photometric catalogs, which represent the widest-area coverage of MCs with HST photometry to date, are available as a high-level science product at the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes.

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ISSN: 0067-0049 (Print); 1538-4365 (Online)
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Astronomy: Astrophysics
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