TY - JOUR
T1 - The Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS) : survey definition and goals
AU - Mauduit, J.-C.
AU - Lacy, M.
AU - Farrah, D.
AU - Surace, J. A.
AU - Jarvis, M.
AU - Oliver, S.
AU - Maraston, C.
AU - Vaccari, M.
AU - Marchetti, L.
AU - Zeimann, G.
AU - Gonzales-Solares, E. A.
AU - Pforr, J.
AU - Petric, A. O.
AU - Henriques, B.
AU - Thomas, P. A.
AU - Afonso, J.
AU - Rettura, A.
AU - Wilson, G.
AU - Norris, R. P.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - We present the Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS), an 18 deg2 mediumdeep survey at 3.6 and 4.5 μm with the postcryogenic Spitzer Space Telescope to ≈2 μJy (AB = 23:1) depth of five highly observed astronomical fields (ELAIS-N1, ELAIS-S1, Lockman Hole, Chandra Deep Field South, andXMMLSS). SERVSis designed to enable the study of galaxy evolution as a function of environment from z ~ 5 to the present day and is the first extragalactic survey that is both large enough and deep enough to put rare objects such as luminous quasars and galaxy clusters at z ≳ 1 into their cosmological context. SERVS is designed to overlap with several key surveys at optical, near- through far-infrared, submillimeter, and radio wavelengths to provide an unprecedented view of the formation and evolution of massive galaxies. In this article, we discuss the SERVS survey design, the data processing flow from image reduction and mosaicking to catalogs, and coverage of ancillary data from other surveys in the SERVS fields. We also highlight a variety of early science results from the survey.
AB - We present the Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS), an 18 deg2 mediumdeep survey at 3.6 and 4.5 μm with the postcryogenic Spitzer Space Telescope to ≈2 μJy (AB = 23:1) depth of five highly observed astronomical fields (ELAIS-N1, ELAIS-S1, Lockman Hole, Chandra Deep Field South, andXMMLSS). SERVSis designed to enable the study of galaxy evolution as a function of environment from z ~ 5 to the present day and is the first extragalactic survey that is both large enough and deep enough to put rare objects such as luminous quasars and galaxy clusters at z ≳ 1 into their cosmological context. SERVS is designed to overlap with several key surveys at optical, near- through far-infrared, submillimeter, and radio wavelengths to provide an unprecedented view of the formation and evolution of massive galaxies. In this article, we discuss the SERVS survey design, the data processing flow from image reduction and mosaicking to catalogs, and coverage of ancillary data from other surveys in the SERVS fields. We also highlight a variety of early science results from the survey.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/549747
U2 - 10.1086/666945
DO - 10.1086/666945
M3 - Article
SN - 0004-6280
VL - 124
SP - 714
EP - 736
JO - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
JF - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
IS - 917
ER -