| Title | SpIES: THE SPITZER IRAC EQUATORIAL SURVEY |
| Authors | Timlin, John D. Ross, Nicholas P. Richards, Gordon T. Lacy, Mark Ryan, Erin L. Stone, Robert B. Bauer, Franz E. Brandt, W. N. Fan, Xiaohui Glikman, Eilat Haggard, Daryl Jiang, Linhua LaMassa, Stephanie M. Lin, Yen-Ting Makler, Martin McGehee, Peregrine Myers, Adam D. Schneider, Donald P. Urry, C. Megan Wollack, Edward J. Zakamska, Nadia L. |
| Affiliation | Drexel Univ, Dept Phys, 3141 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. Univ Edinburgh, Inst Astron, Royal Observ, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, Midlothian, Scotland. Natl Radio Astron Observ, 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA. Univ Maryland, Dept Astron, College Pk, MD 20742 USA. Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Inst Astrofis, Fac Fis, Casilla 306, Santiago 22, Chile. MAS, Millennium Inst Astrophys, Nuncio Monsenor Sotero Sanz 100, Santiago, Chile. Space Sci Inst, 4750 Walnut St,Suite 205, Boulder, CO 80301 USA. Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, 525 Davey Lab, University Pk, PA 16802 USA. Penn State Univ, Inst Gravitat & Cosmos, University Pk, PA 16802 USA. Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, 104 Davey Lab, University Pk, PA 16802 USA. Univ Arizona, Steward Observ, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA. Middlebury Coll, Dept Phys, Middlebury, VT 05753 USA. Amherst Coll, Dept Phys & Astron, Amherst, MA 01002 USA. Peking Univ, Kavli Inst Astron & Astrophys, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China. NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA. Acad Sinica, Inst Astron & Astrophys, Taipei 106, Taiwan. Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, Rua Dr Xavier Sigaud 150, BR-22290180 Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. IPAC, 1200 E Calif Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA. Univ Wyoming, Dept Phys & Astron, 1000 Univ Ave, Laramie, WY 82071 USA. NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA. Johns Hopkins Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Bloomberg Ctr, 3400N Charlesty 7 St, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA. |
| Keywords | catalogs infrared: general quasars: general surveys DIGITAL SKY SURVEY ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI QUASAR LUMINOSITY FUNCTION LARGE-AREA SURVEY STRIPE 82 SURVEY SPACE-TELESCOPE MIDINFRARED SELECTION EXTRAGALACTIC SURVEY STAR-FORMATION SURVEY DESIGN |
| Issue Date | 2016 |
| Publisher | ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES |
| Citation | ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES.2016,225(1). |
| Abstract | We describe the first data release from the Spitzer-IRAC Equatorial Survey (SpIES); a large-area survey of similar to 115 deg(2) in the Equatorial SDSS Stripe 82 field using Spitzer during its "warm" mission phase. SpIES was designed to probe sufficient volume to perform measurements of quasar clustering and the luminosity function at z >= 3 to test various models for "feedback" from active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Additionally, the wide range of available multi-wavelength, multi-epoch ancillary data enables SpIES to identify both high-redshift (z >= 5) quasars as well as obscured quasars missed by optical surveys. SpIES achieves 5 sigma depths of 6.13 mu Jy (21.93 AB magnitude) and 5.75 mu Jy (22.0 AB magnitude) at 3.6 and 4.5 mu m, respectively-depths significantly fainter than the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). We show that the SpIES survey recovers a much larger fraction of spectroscopically confirmed quasars (similar to 98%) in Stripe 82 than are recovered by WISE (similar to 55%). This depth is especially powerful at high-redshift (z >= 3.5), where SpIES recovers 94% of confirmed quasars, whereas WISE only recovers 25%. Here we define the SpIES survey parameters and describe the image processing, source extraction, and catalog production methods used to analyze the SpIES data. In addition to this survey paper, we release 234 images created by the SpIES team and three detection catalogs: a 3.6 mu m. only detection catalog containing similar to 6.1 million sources, a 4.5 mu m. only detection catalog containing similar to 6.5 million sources, and a dual-band detection catalog containing similar to 5.4 million sources. |
| URI | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/457538 |
| ISSN | 0067-0049 |
| DOI | 10.3847/0067-0049/225/1/1 |
| Indexed | SCI(E) |
| Appears in Collections: | 科维理天文与天体物理研究所 |
