2012MNRAS.425.2116C -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 425, 2116-2127 (2012/September-3)
The Arizona CDFS Environment Survey (ACES): A Magellan/IMACS spectroscopic survey of the Chandra Deep Field-South.
COOPER M.C., YAN R., DICKINSON M., JUNEAU S., LOTZ J.M., NEWMAN J.A., PAPOVICH C., SALIM S., WALTH G., WEINER B.J. and WILLMER C.N.A.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present the Arizona CDFS Environment Survey (ACES), a recently completed spectroscopic redshift survey of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDFS) conducted using the Inamori-Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrograph on the Magellan-Baade telescope. In total, the survey targeted 7277 unique sources down to a limiting magnitude of
RAB= 24.1, yielding 5080 secure redshifts across the ∼ 30arcmin x 30arcmin extended CDFS region. The ACES data set delivers a significant increase to both the spatial coverage and the sampling density of the spectroscopic observations in the field. Combined with previously published spectroscopic redshifts, ACES now creates a highly complete survey of the galaxy population at
R < 23, enabling the local galaxy density (or environment) on relatively small scales ( ∼ 1Mpc) to be measured at
z < 1 in one of the most heavily studied and data-rich fields in the sky. Here, we describe the motivation, design and implementation of the survey and present a preliminary redshift and environment catalogue. In addition, we utilize the ACES spectroscopic redshift catalogue to assess the quality of photometric redshifts from both the COMBO-17 and Multiwavelength Survey by Yale-Chile imaging surveys of the CDFS.
This paper includes data gathered with the 6.5 m Magellan Telescopes located at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile.
Hubble Fellow.
Spitzer Fellow.
Abstract Copyright:
2012 The Authors Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2012 RAS
Journal keyword(s):
catalogues - surveys - galaxies: distances and redshifts
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