Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-07-26
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.363:563-580,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
20 pages including 10 figures and 5 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09460.x
The SCUBA HAlf Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES) is a major blank-field extragalactic sub-mm survey underway at the James Clerk Maxwell telescope.SHADES aims to cover half a square degree at 450+850microns to a 4sigma depth of ~8mJy at 850microns. Two fields are being observed, the Subaru/XMM--Newton Deep Field (SXDF) and the Lockman Hole East. The survey has 3 main aims to investigate: i) the cosmic history of massive dust enshrouded star-formation activity, ii) the clustering properties of sub-mm-selected galaxies in order to determine whether these objects could be progenitors of present-day massive ellipticals, and iii) the fraction of sub-mm-selected sources that harbour AGN. To achieve these aims requires the sub-mm data be combined with co-spatial information spanning the radio-to-X-ray frequency range, the resulting extensive multi-wavelength dataset providing complete photometric redshift information accurate to delta z <~0.5 and detailed SEDs for the vast majority of the sub-mm-selected sources. In this paper, the first of a series on SHADES, we present an overview of the motivation for the survey, describe the survey strategy and provide a detailed description of the primary data analysis pipeline. As of Feb. 2004, 720arcmin^2 had been mapped with SCUBA (about 40% of the anticipated final total) to a median 1sigma depth of 2.2mJy per beam at 850microns (25mJy per beam at 450microns), and a source density of 650+/-50 sources/deg^2 >3sigma at 850microns, uncorrected for Eddington bias. A refined re-analysis of the original 8-mJy survey Lockman hole data was carried out in order to evaluate the new data reduction pipeline. Of the 17 most secure sources in the original sample, 12 have been re-confirmed, including 10 of the 11 for which radio IDs were previously secured.(Abridged)
consortium the SHADES
Dunlop James S.
Mortier Angela M. J.
Scott Susan E.
Serjeant Stephen
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