Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-11-01
AJ, 143, 7 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
29 pages, 10 figures, 8 tables
Scientific paper
10.1088/0004-6256/143/1/7
We report on the results of an optical spectroscopic survey at high Galactic latitude (b\geq30{\deg}) of a sample of WISE-selected targets, grouped by WISE W1 ({\lambda}_eff = 3.4 \mum) flux, which we use to characterize the sources WISE detected. We observed 762 targets in 10 disjoint fields centered on ultra-luminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) candidates using the DEIMOS spectrograph on Keck II. We find 0.30 \pm 0.02 galaxies arcmin^-2 with a median redshift of z=0.33 \pm 0.01 for the sample with W1 \geq 120 \muJy. The foreground stellar densities in our survey range from 0.23 \pm 0.07 arcmin^(-2) to 1.1 \pm 0.1 arcmin^(-2) for the same sample. We obtained spectra that produced science grade redshifts for \geq 90% of our targets for sources with W1 flux \geq 120 \muJy that also had i-band flux \geq 18 \muJy. We used for targeting very preliminary data reductions available to the team in August of 2010. Our results therefore present a conservative estimate of what is possible to achieve using WISE's Preliminary Data Release for the study of field galaxies.
Assef Roberto J.
Jarrett Thomas
Lake Sean E.
Petty Sara
Stanford Spencer A.
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