Issue |
A&A
Volume 616, August 2018
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Article Number | A55 | |
Number of page(s) | 11 | |
Section | Catalogs and data | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731944 | |
Published online | 15 August 2018 |
The CFHQSIR survey: a Y-band extension of the CFHTLS-Wide survey★
1
Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, LAM, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille,
Marseille, France
e-mail: sarah.pipien@lam.fr
2
CEA/IRFU/SAp, Laboratoire AIM Paris-Saclay, CNRS/INSU, Université Paris Diderot, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University,
91191
Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
3
NRC Herzberg,
5071 West Saanich Rd,
Victoria,
BC V9E 2E7, Canada
4
Department of Astronomy & Physics and Institute for Computational Astrophysics, Saint Mary’s University,
923 Robie Street,
Halifax,
Nova Scotia,
B3H 3C3, Canada
5
Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris,
98bis Boulevard Arago,
75014
Paris, France
Received:
13
September
2017
Accepted:
31
March
2018
Context. The Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS) has been conducted over a 5-yr period at the CFHT with the MegaCam instrument, totaling 450 nights of observations. The Wide Synoptic Survey is one component of the CFHTLS, covering 155 square degrees in four patches of 23 to 65 square degrees through the whole MegaCam filter set (u*, g’, r’, i’, z’) down to i’AB = 24.5.
Aims. With the motivation of searching for high-redshift quasars at redshifts above 6.5, we extend the multi-wavelength CFHTLS-Wide data in the Y -band down to magnitudes of ~22.5 for point sources (5σ).
Methods. We observed the four CFHTLS-Wide fields (except one quarter of the W3 field) in the Y -band with the Wide-field InfraRed Camera (WIRCam) at the CFHT. Each field was visited twice, at least three weeks apart. Each visit consisted of two dithered exposures. The images are reduced with the Elixir software used for the CFHTLS and modified to account for the properties of near-InfraRed (IR) data. Two series of image stacks are subsequently produced: four-image stacks for each WIRCam pointing, and one-square-degree tiles matched to the format of the CFHTLS data release. Photometric calibration is performed on stars by fitting stellar spectra to their CFHTLS photometric data and extrapolating their Y -band magnitudes.
Results. After corrections accounting for correlated noise, we measure a limiting magnitude of YAB ≃ 22.4 for point sources (5σ) in an aperture diameter of 0.′′93, over 130 square degrees. We produce a multi-wavelength catalogue combining the CFHTLS-Wide optical data with our CFHQSIR (Canada–France High-z quasar survey in the near-InfraRed) Y -band data. We derive the Y -band number counts and compare them to the Vista Deep Extragalactic Observations survey (VIDEO). We find that the addition of the CFHQSIR Y -band data to the CFHTLS optical data increases the accuracy of photometric redshifts and reduces the outlier rate from 13.8% to 8.8% in the redshift range 1.05 ≲ z ≲ 1.2.
Key words: methods: data analysis / techniques: image processing / techniques: photometric / galaxies: photometry / infrared: general
The CFHQSIR catalogue for 8.6 million sources down to [(z′≤ 23.5) ∨ (Y ≤ 23.0)] is available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/616/A55. It is also available, as well as the Y-band images, at: http://apps.canfar.net/storage/list/cjw/cfhqsir.
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