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The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Survey (VIPERS). First Data Release of 57 204 spectroscopic measurements

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01/02/2014
Author
Garilli, B.
Guzzo, L.
Scodeggio, M.
Bolzonella, M.
Abbas, U.
Adami, C.
Arnouts, S.
Bel, J.
Bottini, D.
Branchini, E.
Cappi, A.
Coupon, J.
Cucciati, O.
Davidzon, I.
De Lucia, G.
de la Torre, S.
Franzetti, P.
Fritz, A.
Fumana, M.
Granett, B. R.
Ilbert, O.
Iovino, A.
Krywult, J.
Le Brun, V.
Le Fèvre, O.
Maccagni, D.
Małek, K.
Marulli, F.
McCracken, H. J.
Paioro, L.
Polletta, M.
Pollo, A.
Schlagenhaufer, H.
Tasca, L. A. M.
Tojeiro, Rita
Vergani, D.
Zamorani, G.
Zanichelli, A.
Burden, A.
Di Porto, C.
Marchetti, A.
Marinoni, C.
Mellier, Y.
Moscardini, L.
Nichol, R. C.
Peacock, J. A.
Percival, W. J.
Phleps, S.
Wolk, M.
Keywords
Galaxies: distances and redshifts
Galaxies: statistics
Galaxies: fundamental parameters
Cosmology: observations
Catalogs
Large-scale structure of Universe
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
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Abstract
We present the first Public Data Release (PDR-1) of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Survey (VIPERS). It comprises 57 204 spectroscopic measurements together with all additional information necessary for optimal scientific exploitation of the data, in particular the associated photometric measurements and quantification of the photometric and survey completeness. VIPERS is an ESO Large Programme designed to build a spectroscopic sample of ≃100 000 galaxies with iAB <22.5 and 0.5 <z <1.2 with high sampling rate (≃45%). The survey spectroscopic targets are selected from the CFHTLS-Wide five-band catalogues in the W1 and W4 fields. The final survey will cover a total area of nearly 24 deg2, for a total comoving volume between z = 0.5 and 1.2 of ≃4 × 107 h-3 Mpc3 and a median galaxy redshift of z ≃ 0.8. The release presented in this paper includes data from virtually the entire W4 field and nearly half of the W1 area, thus representing 64% of the final dataset. We provide a detailed description of sample selection, observations and data reduction procedures; we summarise the global properties of the spectroscopic catalogue and explain the associated data products and their use, and provide all the details for accessing the data through the survey database (http://vipers.inaf.it) where all information can be queried interactively. Based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory, Cerro Paranal, Chile, using the Very Large Telescope under programs 182.A-0886 and partly 070.A-9007. Also based on observations obtained with MegaPrime/MegaCam, a joint project of CFHT and CEA/DAPNIA, at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), which is operated by the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada, the Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) of France, and the University of Hawaii. This work is based in part on data products produced at TERAPIX and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre as part of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey, a collaborative project of NRC and CNRS. The VIPERS web site is http://vipers.inaf.it/
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Garilli , B , Guzzo , L , Scodeggio , M , Bolzonella , M , Abbas , U , Adami , C , Arnouts , S , Bel , J , Bottini , D , Branchini , E , Cappi , A , Coupon , J , Cucciati , O , Davidzon , I , De Lucia , G , de la Torre , S , Franzetti , P , Fritz , A , Fumana , M , Granett , B R , Ilbert , O , Iovino , A , Krywult , J , Le Brun , V , Le Fèvre , O , Maccagni , D , Małek , K , Marulli , F , McCracken , H J , Paioro , L , Polletta , M , Pollo , A , Schlagenhaufer , H , Tasca , L A M , Tojeiro , R , Vergani , D , Zamorani , G , Zanichelli , A , Burden , A , Di Porto , C , Marchetti , A , Marinoni , C , Mellier , Y , Moscardini , L , Nichol , R C , Peacock , J A , Percival , W J , Phleps , S & Wolk , M 2014 , ' The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Survey (VIPERS). First Data Release of 57 204 spectroscopic measurements ' , Astronomy & Astrophysics , vol. 562 . https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322790
Publication
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322790
ISSN
0004-6361
Type
Journal article
Rights
© ESO, 2014. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322790.
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L.G. and B.R.G. acknowledge support of the European Research Council through the Darklight ERC Advanced Research Grant (# 291521). O.L.F. and L.A.M.T. acknowledge support of the European Research Council through the EARLY ERC Advanced Research Grant (# 268107). Polish participants have been supported by the Polish National Science Centre (grants N N203 51 29 38 and 2012/07/B/ST9/04425), the Polish-Swiss Astro Project (co-financed by a grant from Switzerland, through the Swiss Contribution to the enlarged European Union), the European Associated Laboratory Astrophysics Poland-France HECOLS and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers (P11802). GDL acknowledges financial support from the European Research Council under the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement n. 202781. W.J.P. and R.T. acknowledge financial support from the European Research Council under the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement n. 202686. W.J.P. is also grateful for support from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council through the grant ST/I001204/1. E.B., F.M. and L.M. acknowledge the support from grants ASI-INAF I/023/12/0 and PRIN MIUR 2010-2011. Y.M. acknowledges support from CNRS/INSU (Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers) and the Programme National Galaxies et Cosmologie (PNCG). C.M. is grateful for support from specific project funding of the Institut Universitaire de France and the LABEX OCEVU.
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URL
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014A%26A...562A..23G
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8108

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