Bibcode
Lonsdale, Carol; Conrow, Tim; Fang, Fan; Franceschini, Alberto; Gautier, Nick; Griffin, Matthew; Masci, Frank; Morrison, Glenn; O'Linger, Joann; Oliver, Sebastian; Padgett, Deborah; Perez-Fournon, Ismael; Pierre, Marguerite; Puetter, Richard; Rowan-Robinson, Michael; Shupe, David; Smith, Harding; Stacey, Gordon; Surace, Jason; Xu, Cong
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Spitzer Proposal ID #142
Fecha de publicación:
9
2004
Número de citas
1
Número de citas referidas
1
Descripción
We propose a wide-area, high latitude, imaging survey to trace the
evolution of dusty, star-forming galaxies, evolved stellar populations,
and AGN, as a function of environment from z~2.5 to the current epoch.
Building on ISO's heritage, SWIRE complements smaller, deeper GTO
(Guaranteed Time Observer) surveys, and paves the way for FIRST. With
MIPS 5 sigma sensitivities of 0.45/2.75/17.5 mJy at 24/70/160 microns
over 100 square degrees (424 hrs), and 7.3/9.7/27.5/32.5 microJy at
3.6/4.5/5.8/8.0 microns for 55 square degrees (IRAC: 427 hrs), we will
deliver highly uniform source catalogs and high-resolution, calibrated
images, providing an unprecedented view of the evolution of galaxies,
structure, and AGN on co-moving scales up to several hundred Mpc. SWIRE
will, for the first time, directly address the clustering of evolved
stellar systems (IRAC) vs active star-forming systems and AGN (MIPS) in
the same volume. Extensive modeling suggests that the Legacy
Extragalactic Catalog may contain in excess of 2 million IR-selected
galaxies dominated by (1) luminous infrared galaxies, Lfir>10^11
L_sun, up to 40,000 with z > 2; (2) ~10^6 early-type galaxies
(~4x10^5 with z>2); (3)~30,000 classical AGN and as many as 250,000
dust-obscured QSO/AGN. Pixon image reconstruction will optimize spatial
resolution, reduce confusion noise and improve sensitivity, and will be
delivered to the SSC. These fields will have extensive data at other
wavebands, particularly in the optical, near-IR and X-ray; further
ground-based imaging will be undertaken at NOAO and other observatories.
SWIRE Legacy data will be will be combined with a wide range of X-ray,
optical, infrared, submm and radio data, largely available through
IPAC's Infrared Science Archive (IRSA), as part of this legacy.