J-PAS: The Javalambre-Physics of the Accelerated Universe Astrophysical Survey

By N. Benı́tez, R. Dupke, M. Molés, L. Sodré, J. Cenarro, A. Marín-Franch, K. Taylor, D. Cristóbal, A. Fernández-Soto, C. Oliveira and 142 more. 2014

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The Javalambre-Physics of the Accelerated Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) is a narrow band, very wide field Cosmological Survey to be carried out from the Javalambre Observatory in Spain with a purpose-built, dedicated 2.5m telescope and a 4.7 sq.deg. camera with 1.2Gpix. Starting in late 2015, J-PAS will observe 8500sq.deg. of Northern Sky and measure $0.003(1+z)$ photo-z for $9\times10^7$ LRG and ELG galaxies plus several million QSOs, sampling an effective volume of $\sim 14$ Gpc$^3$ up to $z=1.3$ and becoming the first radial BAO experiment to reach Stage IV. J-PAS will detect $7\times 10^5$ galaxy clusters and groups, setting constrains on Dark Energy which rival those obtained from its BAO measurements. Thanks to the superb characteristics of the site (seeing ~0.7 arcsec), J-PAS is expected to obtain a deep, sub-arcsec image of the Northern sky, which combined with its unique photo-z precision will produce one of the most powerful cosmological lensing surveys before the arrival of Euclid. J-PAS unprecedented spectral time domain information will enable a self-contained SN survey that, without the need for external spectroscopic follow-up, will detect, classify and measure $\sigma_z\sim 0.5\%$ redshifts for $\sim 4000$ SNeIa and $\sim 900$ core-collapse SNe. The key to the J-PAS potential is its innovative approach: a contiguous system of 54 filters with $145\AA$ width, placed $100\AA$ apart over a multi-degree FoV is a powerful "redshift machine", with the survey speed of a 4000 multiplexing low resolution spectrograph, but many times cheaper and much faster to build. The J-PAS camera is equivalent to a 4.7 sq.deg. "IFU" and it will produce a time-resolved, 3D image of the Northern Sky with a very wide range of Astrophysical applications in Galaxy Evolution, the nearby Universe and the study of resolved stellar populations.

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The many flavours of photometric redshifts (2018, background): “For instance, J-PAS [126] will cover 8500 deg2 with 54 narrow band filters.”
Evolution of the AGN UV luminosity function from redshift 7.5 (2018, background): “…highly complete surveys at z ∼ 3 (Schindler et al. 2017; Yang et al. 2018), multi-band narrow-band surveys targeting AGN at all epochs (Benitez et al. 2014), slitless spectroscopic surveys with upcoming space telescopes (Laureijs et al. 2011; Spergel et al. 2013), and…”
CLASH: JOINT ANALYSIS OF STRONG-LENSING, WEAK-LENSING SHEAR, AND MAGNIFICATION DATA FOR 20 GALAXY CLUSTERS (2015, methodology): “…using robust cluster lensing measurements (von der Linden et al. 2014a; Gruen et al. 2014; Umetsu et al. 2014; Ford et al. 2014; Melchior et al. 2015; Jimeno et al. 2015; Hoekstra et al. 2015; Merten et al. 2015) and well-defined selection functions (Benitez et al. 2014; Miyazaki et al. 2015).”
Active galactic nuclei: what’s in a name? (2017, methodology): “Narrow band surveys such as COMBO17 (Wolf et al. 2003), ALHAMBRA (Moles 2008), and now J-PAS (Benitez et al. 2014) make use of the spectral features to not only identify AGN but to also estimate their (photometric) redshifts with a precision that reaches below 1% (e.g. Salvato et al. 2009; Hsu et al”
Identification of the brightest Lyα emitters at z = 6.6 : Implications for the evolution of the luminosity function in the reionization era (2015, background): “Another survey which recently started observations is the Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astronomical Survey (J-PAS) (Benitez et al. 2014), which will survey 8500 deg2 with 54 narrow-band filters, from 3500 Å up to a wavelength of 10000 Å, to a depth of ∼ 22.5.”
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: mock galaxy catalogues for the BOSS Final Data Release (2015, background): “…(Schlegel et al. 2011), DES3 (Frieman & Dark Energy Survey Collaboration 2013), LSST4 (LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration 2012), J-PAS5 (Benitez et al. 2014), 4MOST6 (de Jong et al. 2012), or Euclid7 (Cimatti et al. 2009; Laureijs 2009), requires thousands of such simulations if the…”