Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-03-17
Astron.J.131:2859-2876,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
25 pages, 27 figures. 7 figures are given as png to reduce their size. Paper accepted for publication by AJ (June 2006, vol. 1
Scientific paper
10.1086/504034
We present the reduction of the 24 micron data obtained during the first cosmological survey performed by the Spitzer Space Telescope (First Look Survey, FLS). The survey consists of a shallow observation of 2.5x2 sq deg centered at 17h18m +59d30m (main survey) and a deeper observation of 1x0.5 sq deg centered at 17h17m +59d45m(verification survey). Issues with the reduction of the 24 micron MIPS data are discussed and solutions to attenuate instrumental effects are proposed and applied to the data. Approximately 17000 sources are extracted with a SNR greater than five. The photometry of the point sources is evaluated through PSF fitting using an empirical PSF derived from the data. Aperture corrections and the absolute calibration have been checked using stars in the field. Astrometric and photometric errors depend on the SNR of the source varying between 0.35-1 arcsec and 5-15%, respectively, for sources detected at 20-5 sigma. The flux of the 123 extended sources have been estimated through aperture photometry. The extended sources cover less than 0.3% of the total area of the survey. Based on simulations, the main and verification surveys are 50% complete at 0.3 and 0.15 mJy, respectively. Counterparts have been searched for in optical and radio catalogs. More than 80% of the 24 micron sources have a reliable optical counterpart down to R=25.5. 16% of the sources have a 20 cm counterpart down to 0.1 mJy and ~ 80% of the radio-infrared associations have a reliable optical counterpart. A residual map is obtained by subtracting point sources detected at the 3-sigma level and interpolating the regions occupied by extended sources. Several galactic clouds with low and intermediate velocities are identified by comparison with neutral Hydrogen data from this field.
Appleton Phil N.
Armus Lee
Chapman Sandra C.
Choi Philip I.
Fadda Dario
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