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A&A
Volume 620, December 2018
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Article Number | A51 | |
Number of page(s) | 16 | |
Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732080 | |
Published online | 29 November 2018 |
The WIRCam Ultra Deep Survey (WUDS)
I. Survey overview and UV luminosity functions at z ∼ 5 and z ∼ 6⋆
1
Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, CNES, 14 Av. Edouard Belin, 31400
Toulouse, France
e-mail: rpello@irap.omp.eu
2
Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, UMR7095 CNRS, Université Pierre & Marie Curie, 98 bis Bld. Arago, 75014
Paris, France
3
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
UK
4
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, C/ Via Lactea s/n, 38205
La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
5
Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, Avda. Astrofísico Fco. Sànchez, 38206
La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
6
Departamento de Astrofísica y CC de la Atmósfera, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Av Complutense s/n, 28040
Madrid, Spain
7
Department of Astronomy, University of Florida, 211 Bryant Space Science Center, Gainsville, FL, 32611-2055
USA
8
Université Lyon 1, ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL) UMR5574, 69230
Saint-Genis-Laval, France
9
Geneva Observatory, Chemin des Maillettes 51, 1290
Versoix, Switzerland
10
Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, CNRS – Université Aix-Marseille, 38 Rue Frédéric Joliot-Curie, 13388
Marseille Cedex 13, France
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Stockholm University, Department of Astronomy and Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, AlbaNova University Centre, 10691
Stockholm, Sweden
Received:
11
October
2017
Accepted:
3
September
2018
The aim of this paper is to introduce the WIRCam Ultra Deep Survey (WUDS), a near-IR photometric survey carried out at the CFH Telescope in the field of the CFHTLS-D3 field (Groth Strip). WUDS includes four near-IR bands (Y, J, H and Ks) over a field of view of ∼400 arcmin2. The typical depth of WUDS data reaches between ∼26.8 in Y and J, and ∼26 in H and Ks (AB, 3σ in 1.3″ aperture), whereas the corresponding depth of the CFHTLS-D3 images in this region ranges between 28.6 and 29 in ugr, 28.2 in i and 27.1 in z (same S/N and aperture). The area and depth of this survey were specifically tailored to set strong constraints on the cosmic star formation rate and the luminosity function brighter or around L⋆ in the z ∼ 6 − 10 redshift domain, although these data are also useful for a variety of extragalactic projects. This first paper is intended to present the properties of the public WUDS survey in details: catalog building, completeness and depth, number counts, photometric redshifts, and global properties of the galaxy population. We have also concentrated on the selection and characterization of galaxy samples at z ∼ [4.5 − 7] in this field. For these purposes, we include an adjacent shallower area of ∼1260 arcmin2 in this region, extracted from the WIRCam Deep Survey (WIRDS), and observed in J, H and Ks bands. UV luminosity functions were derived at z ∼ 5 and z ∼ 6 taking advantage from the fact that WUDS covers a particularly interesting regime at intermediate luminosities, which allows a combined determination of M⋆ and Φ⋆ with increased accuracy. Our results on the luminosity function are consistent with a small evolution of both M⋆ and Φ⋆ between z = 5 and z = 6, irrespective of the method used to derive them, either photometric redshifts applied to blindly-selected dropout samples or the classical Lyman Break Galaxy color-preselected samples. Our results lend support to higher Φ⋆ determinations at z = 6 than usually reported. The selection and combined analysis of different galaxy samples at z ≥ 7 will be presented in a forthcoming paper, as well as the evolution of the UV luminosity function between z ∼ 4.5 and 9. WUDS is intended to provide a robust database in the near-IR for the selection of targets for detailed spectroscopic studies, in particular for the EMIR/GTC GOYA Survey.
Key words: surveys / galaxies: high-redshift / dark ages / reionization / first stars
A copy of the data products is also 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/620/A51
© ESO 2018
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