First Results from S-COSMOS: the Spitzer Legacy Survey of the HST-ACS 2sq.deg. Field

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The Spitzer-COSMOS survey (S-COSMOS) is a Legacy program (Cycles 2+3) designed to carry out a uniform deep survey of the full 2-deg2 COSMOS field in all seven Spitzer (IRAC + MIPS) bands (3.6, 4.5, 5.6, 8.0, 24, 70, 160μm). Our Cycle 2 observations show that the observed infrared backgrounds in the S-COSMOS field are smooth and within 10% of the predicted background levels, and appear to be devoid of any significant cirrus contamination. Our first analysis results confirm that S-COSMOS will have sufficient sensitivity with IRAC to detect L* disks and spheroids out to z > 3, and with MIPS-24 to detect ultra-luminous starbursts and AGN out to z 3. We also discuss the IRAC and MIPS colors of galaxies detected in the MIPS-deep “Test area” observed in Cycle 2, and relate the optical properties of these nearand mid-infrared selected objects to the “red sequence” and “blue cloud” colors used to characterize the galaxy population in deep optical surveys.

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