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Bongiovanni, A.; OTELO Team
Bibliographical reference
Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X, Proceedings of the XIII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on July 16-20, 2018, in Salamanca, Spain, ISBN 978-84-09-09331-1. B. Montesinos, A. Asensio Ramos, F. Buitrago, R. Schödel, E. Villaver, S. Pérez-Hoyos, I. Ordóñez-Etxeberria (eds.) p. 73-80
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Description
The evolution of galaxies across the cosmic time are observationally
studied by means of extragalactic surveys that cover significant volumes
of Universe, with a wealth of multi-wavelength ancillary data. OTELO
survey provides the deepest narrow band survey to date, in terms of
minimum detectable flux, and emission line equivalent width, that has
allowed detecting the faintest extragalactic emission line systems. In
this way, OTELO data complements other broad band, narrow band, and
spectroscopic surveys. The data has been obtained using the red Tunable
Filter of the OSIRIS instrument at the 10.4 m telescope GTC, pointing at
the most deeply explored EGS region. This catalogue is complemented with
public data ranging from deep X-ray to FIR, including high resolution
HST images, that allowed deriving precise photometric redshifts, and
obtaining the morphological classification of the extragalactic objects
detected. In the present contribution the final catalogue and other
value-added products, that will be publicly available by mid 2019, are
presented. The improved reduction techniques, the high astrometric and
photometric quality achieved, and the main survey demographics are also
presented. A total of 11 237 raw sources have been detected in a sky
area of 56 sq.-arcmin. Within them, about 1 800 are fair candidates to
the strongest emission lines in the UV-optical domain, 81 are candidates
to stars, while other 483 are candidates to be absorption line systems.
The 50% completeness of OTELO catalogue is obtained at an AB magnitude
of 26.38. Photometric redshifts have been derived with an accuracy
better than \vertΔz\vert/(1+z) ≤ 0.2 for 6 600 sources.