The Spitzer Space Telescope First-Look Survey: KPNO MOSAIC-1 R-band Images and Source Catalogs

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2004-03-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0403490v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21 pages, 15 Postscript figures, uses aastex, AJ accepted. Images and catalogs at http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/fls/extragal/

Scientific paper

10.1086/421366

(Abridged) We present R-band images covering more than 11 square degrees of sky obtained with the KPNO 4-m telescope in preparation for the Spitzer Space Telescope First Look Survey. The FLS was designed to characterize the mid-infrared sky at depths 2 orders of magnitude deeper than previous surveys. The extragalactic component is the first cosmological survey done with Spitzer. Two relatively large regions of the sky were observed: the main FLS extra galactic field (17h18m+59d30m) and ELAIS-N1 field (16h10m+54d30m). The overall quality of the images is high. The relative astrometric accuracy is better than 0.1'' and the typical seeing is 1.1''. Images are relatively deep since they reach a median 5-sigma depth limiting magnitude of R=25.5 (Vega). Catalogs have been extracted using SExtractor using thresholds in area and flux for which the number of false detections is below 1% at R=25. Only sources with S/N greater than 3 have been retained in the final catalogs. Comparing the galaxy number counts from our images with those of deeper R-band surveys, we estimate that our observations are 50% complete at R=24.5. These limits in depth are sufficient to identify a substantial fraction of the infrared sources which will be detected by Spitzer.

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