Extragalactic Astrophysics

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HST Surveys and Large Projects

• 3D-HST - A Spectroscopic Galaxy Evolution Survey with the Hubble Space Telescope
  • 3D-HST surveyed ~600 square arcminutes of well-studied extragalactic survey fields (AEGIS, COSMOS, GOODS-S, UKIDSS-UDS) with two orbits of primary WFC3/G141 grism coverage and two to four orbits with ACS/G800L coverage. The short acquisition images, taken in the WFC3/F140W and ACS/F814W filters used for wavelength reference for the spectra, are also deeper than most ground-based observations.

Ground-base Specoscopic Surveys

• List of spectroscopic surveys by Ivan Baldry
  • Covers all the “classic” ones, but some links might no longer work any more.
• PRIMUS: PRIsm MUlti-object Survey
  • A spectroscopic survey to z=1 with ~120,000 robust galaxy redshifts covering >9 sq. deg. of the sky, focusing on regions with deep Spitzer, optical, GALEX and X-ray data. Data release available
• Lega-C: Large Early Galaxy Astrophysics Census
  • VIMOS survey of 0.6 < z < 1.0 massive galaxies in the COSMOS field. Data release available
• zCOSMOS: spectroscopic redshift survey in the COSMOS field
  • VIMOS survey of 28,000 galaxies at 0.2 < z < 1.2 and 12,000 galaxies at 1.2 < z < 3. Data release available
  • Due to the special role of the COSMOS field for spec-z and photo-z calibration, this dataset is also very important.
• VUDS: VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey
  • VIMOS survey of ~10.000 very faint galaxies to study the major phase of galaxy assembly 2 < z ≲ 6. Data release available
• MOSDEF: The MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field Survey
  • Charting the evolution of the rest-frame optical spectra for ~1500 galaxies in three distinct redshift intervals spanning 1.4 < z < 3.8 in AEGIS, COSMOS, and GOODS-N.
• ZFIRE: A Keck/MOSFIRE SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF STAR-FORMING GALAXIES IN RICH ENVIORNMENTS DURING COSMIC-NOON

IFU Surveys

• MUSE-Wide project
  • MUSE Survey of GOODS-S/CDFS and CANDELS-COSMOS areas.
• SINS: Spectroscopic Imaging survey in the Near-infrared with SINFONI
• KDS: KMOS Deep Survey
  • A KMOS study of the gas kinematics and metallicity in 77 SFGs with a median redshift of z ≃ 3.5, probing a representative section of the galaxy main-sequence.
• KCS: KMOS Cluster Survey
  • A 30-night KMOS GTO program performing deep absorption-line spectroscopy in four main overdensities at 1.39 < z < 1.8 and one lower-priority overdensity at z = 1.04 to bridge our high-redshift observations with the local sample.

Groud-base Imaging Surveys

• Deep Hyper Suprime-Cam Images and a Forced Photometry Catalog in W-CDF-S
  • Both catalogs and reduced HSC data are available here
  • Associated RNASS note can be found here
• ALHAMBRA: Advance Large Homogeneous Area Medium Band Redshift Astronomical
• PAU: Narrow-band Survey using the PAUCam

MIR or FIR Surveys

• SPARCS - Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves
  • SPARC is a database of 175 late-type galaxies (spirals and irregulars) with Spitzer photometry at 3.6 mu (tracing the stellar mass distribution) and high-quality HI/Ha rotation curves

Radio Surveys

• PHIBSS: Plateau de Bure high-z Blue Sequence Survey
• EMPIRE - EMIR Multiline Probe of the ISM Regulating Galaxy Evolution
  • The first wide-area multi-line mapping survey targeting tracers of dense gas across the entire molecular disks of 9 nearby star-forming galaxies.
  • EMPIRE provides, for the first time, resolved (1-2kpc resolution) maps of a suite of density-sensitive transitions in the 3mm atmospheric window, including HCN (1-0), HCO+ (1-0) and HNC (1-0).

X-ray or High-Energy Surveys

Useful dataset and tools

• LASD - Lyman Alpha Spectral Database
  • Lyman Alpha Spectral Database will facilitate comparison of Lya spectral modeling and observations.

Simulation and other model predictions

• Semi-Analytic Forecasts for JWST using Santa Cruz SAM
  • We provide predictions for galaxy populations over a wide range of rest UV luminosity from MUV ∼ −6 to ∼ −24 between z = 4 – 10.