Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-02-21
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 325 (2001) 550
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04452.x
The Munich Near-IR Cluster Survey (MUNICS) is a wide-area, medium-deep, photometric survey selected in the K' band. It covers an area of roughly one square degree in the K' and J near-IR pass-bands. The survey area consists of 16 6' x 6' fields targeted at QSOs with redshifts 0.5 < z < 2 and 7 28' x 13' stripes targeted at `random' high Galactic latitude fields. Ten of the QSO fields were additionally imaged in R and I, and 0.6 square degrees of the randomly selected fields were also imaged in the V, R, and I bands. The resulting object catalogues were strictly selected in K', having a limiting magnitude (50 per cent completeness) of K' ~ 19.5 mag and J ~ 21 mag, sufficiently deep to detect passively evolving systems up to a redshift of z ~ 1.5 and luminosity of 0.5 L*. The optical data reach a depth of roughly R ~ 23.5 mag. The project's main scientific aims are the identification of galaxy clusters at redshifts around unity and the selection of a large sample of field early-type galaxies at 0 < z < 1.5 for evolutionary studies. In this paper - the first in a series - we describe the survey's concept, the selection of the survey fields, the near-IR and optical imaging and data reduction, object extraction, and the construction of photometric catalogues. Finally, we show the J-K' vs. K' colour-magnitude diagramme and the R-J vs. J-K', V-I vs. J-K', and V-I vs. V-R colour-colour diagrammes for MUNICS objects, together with stellar population-synthesis models for different star-formation histories, and conclude that the data set presented is suitable for extracting a catalogue of massive field galaxies in the redshift range 0.5 < z < 1.5 for evolutionary studies and follow-up observations.
Bender Ralf
Botzler Christine S.
de Oliveira Mendes Cl.
Drory Niv
Feulner Georg
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