Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-06-04
Astro. & Astroph. Suppl. 124 (1997) 1-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
LATEX, 18 Postscript figures, 20 pages. To appear July 1997. Modified version of article. Abstract corrected for missing line
Scientific paper
10.1051/aas:1997187
We present the photometric sample of a faint galaxy survey carried out in the southern hemisphere, using CCDs on the 3.60m and NTT-3.5m telescopes at La Silla (ESO). The survey area is a continuous strip of 0.2 deg x 1.53 deg located at high galactic latitude (-83 deg) in the Sculptor constellation. The photometric survey provides total magnitudes in the bands B, V (Johnson) and R (Cousins) to limiting magnitudes of 24.5, 24.0, 23.5 respectively. To these limits, the catalog contains about 9500, 12150, 13000 galaxies in B, V, R bands respectively and is the first large digital multi-colour photometric catalog at this depth. This photometric survey also provides the entry catalog for a fully-sampled redshift survey of ~ 700 galaxies with R < 20.5 (Bellanger et al. 1995). In this paper, we describe the photometric observations and the steps used in the data reduction. The analysis of objects and the star-galaxy separation with a neural network are performed using SExtractor, a new photometric software developed by E. Bertin (1996). The photometric accuracy of the resulting catalog is ~ 0.05 mag for R < 22. The differential galaxy number counts in B, V, R are in good agreement with previously published CCD studies and confirm the evidence for significant evolution at faint magnitudes as compared to a standard non evolving model (by factors 3.6, 2.6, 2.1). The galaxy colour distributions B-R, B-V of our sample show a blueing trend of ~ 0.5 mag between 21 < R < 23.5 in contrast to the V-R colour distribution where no significant evolution is observed.
Arnouts Stephane
Bertin Emmanuel
de Lapparent Valerie
Kruszewski Adrian
Mathez Guy
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