CANDELS survey
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The CANDELS survey is a major Hubble Space Telescope deep-imaging program designed to study the formation and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: CANDELS survey Context triple: [Wide Field Camera 3, notableProgram, CANDELS survey]
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A.
Carnegie Irvine Galaxy Survey
The Carnegie Irvine Galaxy Survey is an astronomical project that provides detailed optical imaging and analysis of nearby galaxies to study their structure, formation, and evolution.
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B.
Carnegie-Spitzer-IMACS Survey
The Carnegie-Spitzer-IMACS Survey is an astronomical research project that combines infrared observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope with optical spectroscopy from the IMACS instrument to study the formation and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time.
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C.
Dark Energy Survey
The Dark Energy Survey is a large international astronomical project that uses a wide-field camera on a Chilean telescope to map hundreds of millions of galaxies and study the nature of dark energy and cosmic acceleration.
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Advanced Camera for Surveys
The Advanced Camera for Surveys is a high-resolution imaging instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope designed to capture detailed observations of distant galaxies, galaxy clusters, and other faint astronomical objects.
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E.
OGLE-IV survey
The OGLE-IV survey is a large-scale astronomical sky survey focused on detecting microlensing events and variable stars, conducted with the Warsaw Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: CANDELS survey Target entity description: The CANDELS survey is a major Hubble Space Telescope deep-imaging program designed to study the formation and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time.
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A.
Carnegie Irvine Galaxy Survey
The Carnegie Irvine Galaxy Survey is an astronomical project that provides detailed optical imaging and analysis of nearby galaxies to study their structure, formation, and evolution.
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B.
Carnegie-Spitzer-IMACS Survey
The Carnegie-Spitzer-IMACS Survey is an astronomical research project that combines infrared observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope with optical spectroscopy from the IMACS instrument to study the formation and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time.
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C.
Dark Energy Survey
The Dark Energy Survey is a large international astronomical project that uses a wide-field camera on a Chilean telescope to map hundreds of millions of galaxies and study the nature of dark energy and cosmic acceleration.
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Advanced Camera for Surveys
The Advanced Camera for Surveys is a high-resolution imaging instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope designed to capture detailed observations of distant galaxies, galaxy clusters, and other faint astronomical objects.
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E.
OGLE-IV survey
The OGLE-IV survey is a large-scale astronomical sky survey focused on detecting microlensing events and variable stars, conducted with the Warsaw Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hubble Space Telescope observing program
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astronomical survey ⓘ |
| acronym |
CANDELS
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linked to:
CANDELS survey
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| coPrincipalInvestigator |
Anton M. Koekemoer
ⓘ
Henry C. Ferguson NERFINISHED ⓘ Steven M. Willner ⓘ |
| cosmologicalContext |
Lambda-CDM cosmology
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linked to:
Lambda-CDM model
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| cycle |
HST Cycle 18
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HST Cycle 19 ⓘ HST Cycle 20 ⓘ |
| dataPolicy | public ⓘ |
| dataRelease | HST Legacy survey data products ⓘ |
| endYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| field |
COSMOS field
ⓘ
EGS field ⓘ GOODS-North ⓘ GOODS-South ⓘ UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey field ⓘ
linked to:
UKIDSS
|
| fullName |
Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey
ⓘ
linked to:
CANDELS survey
|
| fundingAgency | NASA ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
CANDELS/Deep
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linked to:
CANDELS survey
CANDELS/Wide ⓘ
linked to:
CANDELS survey
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| hostInstitution | Space Telescope Science Institute ⓘ |
| instrumentUsed |
Advanced Camera for Surveys
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Wide Field Camera 3 ⓘ |
| observes | high-redshift galaxies ⓘ |
| primaryGoal |
constrain the history of star formation in the universe
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improve constraints on dark energy via high-redshift supernovae and galaxy statistics ⓘ measure galaxy structure and morphology at high redshift ⓘ study formation and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time ⓘ study the growth of supermassive black holes ⓘ |
| principalInvestigator |
Sandra M. Faber
ⓘ
linked to:
Sandra Faber
|
| proposalType | HST Multi-Cycle Treasury program ⓘ |
| provides |
multiwavelength photometric catalogs
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photometric redshifts ⓘ structural parameters of galaxies ⓘ |
| redshiftRange | up to z ~ 8 ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
3D-HST survey
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COSMOS survey ⓘ GOODS survey ⓘ UKIDSS UDS survey ⓘ
linked to:
UKIDSS
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| startYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| studies |
AGN–galaxy coevolution
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galaxy mass assembly ⓘ morphological transformation of galaxies ⓘ reionization-era galaxies ⓘ |
| surveyArea | approximately 800 square arcminutes ⓘ |
| telescopeUsed | Hubble Space Telescope ⓘ |
| wavelengthRange |
near-infrared
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optical ⓘ |
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Subject: CANDELS survey Description of subject: The CANDELS survey is a major Hubble Space Telescope deep-imaging program designed to study the formation and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: CANDELS survey
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linked to: CANDELS survey
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linked to: CANDELS survey
Anton M. Koekemoer
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notableWork
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CANDELS (Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey)
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linked to: CANDELS survey
linked to: CANDELS survey
linked to: CANDELS survey