The All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS) Data Sets
Smail, I.; Le Floc'h, E.; Barmby, P.; Ivison, R. J.; Cooper, M. C.; Lin, L.; Papovich, C.; Georgakakis, A.; Nandra, K.; Rigopoulou, D.; Simard, L.; Koekemoer, A. M.; Fazio, G. G.; Huang, J. -S.; Faber, S. M.; Wilson, G.; Rich, R. M.; Moustakas, L. A.; Rieke, G. H.; Weiner, B. J.; Ashby, M. L. N.; Koo, D. C.; Lotz, J. M.; Willner, S. P.; Conselice, C. J.; Marshall, P. J.; Eisenhardt, P. R. M.; Biggs, A. D.; Coil, A. L.; Chapman, S. C.; Schiminovich, D.; Hopkins, A. M.; Salim, S.; Laird, E. S.; Bundy, K.; Willmer, C. N. A.; Ellis, R. S.; Noeske, K. G.; Gwyn, S.; Konidaris, N. P.; Newman, J. A.; Goss, W. M.; Davis, M.; Guhathakurta, P.; Wright, E. L.; Yan, R.; Metevier, A. J.; Fang, T.; Martin, D. C.; Croton, D. J.; Kassin, S. A.; Kirby, E. N.; Small, T. A.; Phillips, A. C.; Harker, J.; Gerke, B. F.
United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Germany
Abstract
In this the first of a series of Letters, we present a panchromatic data set in the Extended Groth Strip region of the sky. Our survey, the All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS), aims to study the physical properties and evolutionary processes of galaxies at z~1. It includes the following deep, wide-field imaging data sets: Chandra/ACIS X-ray, GALEX ultraviolet, CFHT/MegaCam Legacy Survey optical, CFHT/CFH12K optical, Hubble Space Telescope/ACS optical and NICMOS near-infrared, Palomar/WIRC near-infrared, Spitzer/IRAC mid-infrared, Spitzer/MIPS far-infrared, and VLA radio continuum. In addition, this region of the sky has been targeted for extensive spectroscopy using the Deep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph (DEIMOS) on the Keck II 10 m telescope. Our survey is compared to other large multiwavelength surveys in terms of depth and sky coverage.