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| DOI | 10.3847/1538-4365/AA6FED | ||||
| Año | 2017 | ||||
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We apply The Tractor image modeling code to improve upon existing multi-band photometry for the Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS). SERVS consists of post-cryogenic Spitzer observations at 3.6 and 4.5 mu m over five well-studied deep fields spanning 18 deg(2). In concert with data from ground-based near-infrared (NIR) and optical surveys, SERVS aims to provide a census of the properties of massive galaxies out to z approximate to 5. To accomplish this, we are using The Tractor to perform "forced photometry." This technique employs prior measurements of source positions and surface brightness profiles from a high-resolution fiducial band from the VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations survey to model and fit the fluxes at lower-resolution bands. We discuss our implementation of The Tractor over a square-degree test region within the XMM Large Scale Structure field with deep imaging in 12 NIR/optical bands. Our new multi-band source catalogs offer a number of advantages over traditional position-matched catalogs, including (1) consistent source cross-identification between bands, (2) deblending of sources that are clearly resolved in the fiducial band but blended in the lower. resolution SERVS data, (3) a higher source detection fraction in each band, (4) a larger number of candidate galaxies in the redshift range 5 < z < 6, and (5) a statistically significant improvement in the photometric redshift accuracy as evidenced by the significant decrease in the fraction of outliers compared to spectroscopic redshifts. Thus, forced photometry using The Tractor offers a means of improving the accuracy of multi-band extragalactic surveys designed for galaxy evolution studies. We will extend our application of this technique to the full SERVS footprint in the future.
| Ord. | Autor | Género | Institución - País |
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| 1 | Nyland, Kristina | - |
Natl Radio Astron Observ - Estados Unidos
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| 2 | Lacy, M. | Hombre |
Natl Radio Astron Observ - Estados Unidos
National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Estados Unidos |
| 3 | Sajina, Anna | Mujer |
Tufts Univ - Estados Unidos
Tufts University - Estados Unidos |
| 4 | Pforr, J. | Mujer |
ESA - Países Bajos
Aix Marseille Univ - Francia ESA/ESTEC SCI-S - Países Bajos Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille - Francia |
| 5 | Rigopoulou, Dimitra | Mujer |
Virginia Tech - Estados Unidos
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Estados Unidos |
| 6 | Wilson, G. | Mujer |
Univ Calif Riverside - Estados Unidos
University of California, Riverside - Estados Unidos |
| 7 | Surace, J. A. | Hombre |
CALTECH - Estados Unidos
Spitzer Science Center - Estados Unidos |
| 8 | Häußler, Boris | Hombre |
ESO - Chile
European Southern Observatory Santiago - Chile |
| 9 | Vaccari, M. | Hombre |
Univ Western Cape - República de Sudáfrica
INAF Ist Radioastron - Italia University of the Western Cape - República de Sudáfrica INAF Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Bologna - Italia |
| 10 | Jarvis, M. | Hombre |
UNIV OXFORD - Reino Unido
Univ Western Cape - República de Sudáfrica University of Oxford - Reino Unido University of the Western Cape - República de Sudáfrica |
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| National Science Foundation |
| NSF |
| NASA |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| Seventh Framework Programme |
| Space Telescope Science Institute |
| Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology |
| California Institute of Technology |
| NASA from the Space Telescope Science Institute |
| South African Department of Science and Technology |
| University of Hawaii |
| European Commission Research Executive Agency |
| Computation Technologies Project |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Earth Science Technology Office |
| Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation |
| National Research Council (NRC) of Canada |
| Institut National des Science de l'Univers of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) of France |
| Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under a contract with NASA |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Earth Science |
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| The authors have made use of ASTROPY, a community developed core PYTHON package for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013). We also used MONTAGE, which is funded by the National Science Foundation under grant No.. ACI-1440620, and was previously funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Earth Science Tech-Cooperative Agreement Number NCC5-626 between NASA and the California Institute of Technology. |
| We thank the referee for providing us with thoughtful comments that have significantly improved the quality of this work. We also thank Scott Ransom for assisting us with the implementation of parallelization in our PYTHON driver script. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. G.W. acknowledges financial support for this work from NSF grant AST-1517863 and from NASA through programs GO-13306, GO-13677, GO-13747, & GO-13845/14327 from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by AURA, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555. M.V. acknowledges support from the European Commission Research Executive Agency (FP7-SPACE-2013-1 GA 607254), the South African Department of Science and Technology (DST/CON 0134/2014), and the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (PGR GA ZA14GR02). |