The Arizona CDFS Environment Survey (ACES): A Magellan/IMACS Spectroscopic Survey of the Chandra Deep Field-South uri icon

abstract

  • We present the Arizona CDFS Environment Survey (ACES), a recently completed spectroscopic redshift survey of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDFS) conducted using the Inamori-Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrograph on the Magellan-Baade telescope. In total, the survey targeted 7277 unique sources down to a limiting magnitude of R AB = 24.1, yielding 5080 secure redshifts across the 30arcmin 30arcmin extended CDFS region. The ACES data set delivers a significant increase to both the spatial coverage and the sampling density of the spectroscopic observations in the field. Combined with previously published spectroscopic redshifts, ACES now creates a highly complete survey of the galaxy population at R < 23, enabling the local galaxy density (or environment) on relatively small scales (1Mpc) to be measured at z < 1 in one of the most heavily studied and data-rich fields in the sky. Here, we describe the motivation, design and implementation of the survey and present a preliminary redshift and environment catalogue. In addition, we utilize the ACES spectroscopic redshift catalogue to assess the quality of photometric redshifts from both the COMBO-17 and Multiwavelength Survey by Yale-Chile imaging surveys of the CDFS. 2012 The Authors Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2012 RAS.

published proceedings

  • MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

altmetric score

  • 1.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Cooper, M. C., Yan, R., Dickinson, M., Juneau, S., Lotz, J. M., Newman, J. A., ... Willmer, C.

citation count

  • 85

complete list of authors

  • Cooper, Michael C||Yan, Renbin||Dickinson, Mark||Juneau, Stephanie||Lotz, Jennifer M||Newman, Jeffrey A||Papovich, Casey||Salim, Samir||Walth, Gregory||Weiner, Benjamin J||Willmer, Christopher NA

publication date

  • September 2012