Powerful Activity in the Bright Ages. I. A Visible/IR Survey of High
  Redshift 3C Radio Galaxies and Quasars
  We present new rest frame UV and visible observations of 22 high-redshift (1
< z < 2.5) 3C radio galaxies and QSOs obtained with the Hubble Space
Telescope's (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument. Using a custom data
reduction strategy in order to assure the removal of cosmic rays, persistence
signal, and other data artifacts, we have produced high-quality science-ready
images of the targets and their local environments. We observe targets with
regions of UV emission suggestive of active star formation. In addition,
several targets exhibit highly distorted host galaxy morphologies in the rest
frame visible images. Photometric analyses reveals that brighter QSOs tend to
be generally redder than their dimmer counterparts. Using emission line fluxes
from the literature, we estimate that emission line contamination is relatively
small in the rest frame UV images for the QSOs. Using archival VLA data, we
have also created radio map overlays for each of our targets, allowing for
analysis of the optical and radio axes alignment.
