Issue |
A&A
Volume 417, Number 3, April III 2004
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Page(s) | 839 - 846 | |
Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20031767 | |
Published online | 26 March 2004 |
The VIRMOS deep imaging survey*
I. Overview, survey strategy, and CFH12K observations
1
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, UMR 6110, CNRS-Université de Provence, Traverse du Siphon-Les trois Lucs, 13012 Marseille, France
2
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, UMR 7095, 98bis Bvd Arago, 75014 Paris, France
3
Observatoire de Paris, LERMA, UMR 8112, 61 Av. de l'Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France
4
Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, via Ranzani 1, 40127 Bologna, Italy
5
Osservatorio di Capodimonte, via Moiariello 16, 80131 Napoli, Italy
6
Canada-France Telescope Corporation, 65-1238 Mamalahoa Hwy, Kamuela, Hawaii 96743, USA
7
Service d'Astrophysique, CE Saclay, L'Orme des Meurisiers, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Corresponding author: O. Le Fèvre, olivier.lefevre@oamp.fr
Received:
12
June
2003
Accepted:
19
December
2003
This paper describes the CFH12K-VIRMOS survey: a deep
imaging survey in four fields totalling more than
, conducted with the
arcmin2 field
CFH-12K camera. The survey is intended to be a multi-purpose
survey used for a variety of science goals, including surveys of
very high redshift galaxies and weak lensing studies.
Four high galactic latitude fields, each
deg2, have
been selected along the celestial equator: 0226-04, 1003+01,
1400+05, and 2217+00. The 16 deg2 of the “wide” survey are
covered with exposure times of 2 hr, 1.5 hr, 1 hr, 1 hr, respectively
while the
deg2 area of the “deep” survey at the
center of the 0226-04 field is covered with exposure times of 7 h,
4.5 h, 3 h, 3 h, in
respectively. An additional area
~2 deg2 has been imaged in the 0226-04 field corresponding
to the area surveyed by the XMM-LSS program [CITE].
The data is pipeline processed at the Terapix facility at the
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris to produce large mosaic images.
The catalogs produced contain the positions, shapes, total and
aperture magnitudes for 2.175 million objects measured in the four
areas. The limiting magnitudes, measured as a
measurement in a 3 arcsec diameter aperture is
in the “Wide” areas, and
in the deep area. Careful
quality control has been applied on the data to ensure internal
consistency and assess the photometric and astrometric accuracy as
described in a joint paper [CITE]. These catalogs are
used to select targets for the VIRMOS-VLT Deep Survey, a large
spectroscopic survey of the distant universe (Le Fèvre et al.
2003). First results from the CFH12K-VIRMOS survey have been
published on weak lensing (e.g. van Waerbeke & Mellier 2003).
Catalogs and images are available through the VIRMOS database
environment under Oracle (http://www.oamp.fr/cencos). They
are open for general use since July 1st, 2003.
Key words: cosmology: observations / galaxies: evolution / cosmology: gravitational lensing / cosmology: large-scale structure of universe
© ESO, 2004
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