The SWIRE SIRTF Legacy Program: Studying the Evolutionary Mass Function and Clustering of Galaxies

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2002-02-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0202463v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, Latex, special macros. To appear in the Proceedings of the ESO Workshop "The Mass of Galaxies at Low and High Redshif

Scientific paper

10.1007/10899892_80

The SIRTF Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic (SWIRE) survey is a "Legacy Program" using 851 hours of SIRTF observing time to conduct a set of large-area (67 sq. deg. split into 7 fields) high Galactic latitude imaging surveys, achieving 5-sigma sensitivities of 0.45/2.75/17.5 mJy at 24/70/160 micron with MIPS and of 7.3/9.7/27.5/32.5 microJy at 3.6/4.5/5.8/8.0 micron with IRAC. These data will yield highly uniform source catalogs and high-resolution calibrated images, providing an unprecedented view of the universe on co-moving scales up to several hundreds Mpc and to substantial cosmological depths (z\simeq 2.5 for luminous sources). SWIRE will, for the first time, study evolved stellar systems (from IRAC data) versus active star-forming systems and AGNs (from MIPS data) in the same volume, generating catalogues with of order of 2 million infrared-selected galaxies. These fields will have extensive data at other wavebands, particularly in the optical, near-IR and X-rays. SWIRE will provide a complement to smaller and deeper observations in the SIRTF Guaranteed Time and the Legacy Program GOODS, by allowing the investigation of the effect of environment on galaxy evolution. We expand here on capabilities of SWIRE to study with IRAC the evolution of the bright end of the galaxy mass function as a function of cosmic time.

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