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A&A
Volume 647, March 2021
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Article Number | A150 | |
Number of page(s) | 15 | |
Section | Catalogs and data | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202040059 | |
Published online | 26 March 2021 |
The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey
Final data release of 2087 spectra and spectroscopic measurements⋆,⋆⋆
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INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica Milano, via A.Corti 12, 20133 Milano, Italy
e-mail: bianca.garilli@inaf.it
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Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
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INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via Frascati 33, 00078 Monteporzio Catone, Italy
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INAF-Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna, via Gobetti 93/3, 40129 Bologna, Italy
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INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via Brera 28, 20122 Milano, Italy
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Instituto de Investigación Multidisciplinar en Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad de La Serena, Raúl Bitrán 1305, La Serena, Chile
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Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de La Serena, Av. Juan Cisternas 1200 Norte, La Serena, Chile
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University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy “Augusto Righi” (DIFA), Via Gobetti 93/2, 40129 Bologna, Italy
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INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, 50157 Firenze, Italy
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European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching b. Munchen, Germany
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Observatoire de Genève, Université de Genève, 51 Ch. des Maillettes, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland
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Laboratoire AIM-Paris-Saclay, CEA/DSM/Irfu, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, via G.B. Tiepolo 11, 34143 Trieste, Italy
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Núcleo de Astronomía, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Diego Portales, Av. Ejército 441, Santiago, Chile
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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Astrophysics, The Denys Wilkinson Building, University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK
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Max Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik Giessenbachstrasse 1, Garching 85748, Germany
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European Southern Observatory, Avenida Alonso de Córdova 3107, Vitacura, 19001 Casilla, Santiago de Chile, Chile
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The Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Roma, Italy
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
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University Observatory Munich, Scheinerstrasse 1, 81679 Munich, Germany
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Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, 311 West Hall, 1085 South University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107, USA
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Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Universidade de Lisboa, OAL, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-018 Lisbon, Portugal
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Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Edifício C8, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal
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Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Postbus 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Galileo Galilei” – DFA, vicolo dell’ Osservatorio, 3, Padova, Italy
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Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 98 bis Boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris, France
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National Optical Astronomy Observatory, 950 North Cherry Ave, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 20138, USA
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Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Astronomy Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Vicolo dell’Osservatorio, 5, 35122 Padova, Italy
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Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Instituto de Astrofísica Avda, Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Santiago, Chile
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Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, LAM (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille) UMR 7326, 13388 Marseille, France
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Instituto de Fisica y Astronomia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valparaiso, 1111 Gran Bretana, Valparaiso, Chile
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Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Calle Via Láctea s/n, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Scheinerstr. 1, 81679 Munich, Germany
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA
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Excellence Cluster, Boltzmannstr. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany
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Department of Physics, Durham University, South Road, DH1 3LE Durham, UK
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Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona, 933 N Cherry Ave, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, SUPA, North Haugh, KY16 9SS St. Andrews, UK
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IFPU-Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe, via Beirut 2, 34151 Trieste, Italy
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Departamento de Física Teórica, Atómica y Óptica, Universidad de Valladolid, 47011 Valladolid, Spain
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Astrophysics Science Division, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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Department of Physics, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA
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Centre for Astrophysics Research, School of Physics, Astronomy & Mathematics, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, PAB, 430 Portola Plaza, Box 951547, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547, USA
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NSF’s NOIRLab, 950 N Cherry Ave, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
Received:
4
December
2020
Accepted:
18
January
2021
VANDELS is an ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey designed to build a sample of high-signal-to-noise ratio, medium-resolution spectra of galaxies at redshifts between 1 and 6.5. Here we present the final Public Data Release of the VANDELS Survey, comprising 2087 redshift measurements. We provide a detailed description of sample selection, observations, and data reduction procedures. The final catalogue reaches a target selection completeness of 40% at iAB = 25. The high signal-to-noise ratio of the spectra (above 7 in 80% of the spectra) and the dispersion of 2.5 Å allowed us to measure redshifts with high precision, the redshift measurement success rate reaching almost 100%. Together with the redshift catalogue and the reduced spectra, we also provide optical mid-infrared photometry and physical parameters derived through fitting the spectral energy distribution. The observed galaxy sample comprises both passive and star forming galaxies covering a stellar mass range of 8.3 < Log(M*/M⊙) < 11.7.
Key words: galaxies: distances and redshifts / galaxies: statistics / galaxies: fundamental parameters / cosmology: observations / surveys / catalogs
This paper, which presents the final data release of the final high-redshift VIMOS survey, is dedicated to the memory of Olivier Le Fèvre, PI of the VIMOS instrument, world renowned expert of extragalactic spectroscopy and a pioneer in spectroscopy of the distant Universe.
All catalogues and spectra are accessible through the survey database (http://vandels.inaf.it) where all information can be queried interactively, and via the ESO Archive (https://www.eso.org/qi/).
© ESO 2021
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