CANDELS MULTI-WAVELENGTH CATALOGS: SOURCE DETECTION AND PHOTOMETRY IN THE GOODS-SOUTH FIELD

By Yicheng Guo, H. Ferguson, M. Giavalisco, G. Barro, S. Willner, M. Ashby, T. Dahlén, J. Donley, S. Faber, A. Fontana and 26 more. 2013

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We present a UV to mid-infrared multi-wavelength catalog in the CANDELS/GOODS-S field, combining the newly obtained CANDELS HST/WFC3 F105W, F125W, and F160W data with existing public data. The catalog is based on source detection in the WFC3 F160W band. The F160W mosaic includes the data from CANDELS deep and wide observations as well as previous ERS and HUDF09 programs. The mosaic reaches a 5σ limiting depth (within an aperture of radius 0.″17) of 27.4, 28.2, and 29.7 AB for CANDELS wide, deep, and HUDF regions, respectively. The catalog contains 34,930 sources with the representative 50% completeness reaching 25.9, 26.6, and 28.1 AB in the F160W band for the three regions. In addition to WFC3 bands, the catalog also includes data from UV (U band from both CTIO/MOSAIC and VLT/VIMOS), optical (HST/ACS F435W, F606W, F775W, F814W, and F850LP), and infrared (HST/WFC3 F098M, VLT/ISAAC Ks, VLT/HAWK-I Ks, and Spitzer/IRAC 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8.0 μm) observations. The catalog is validated via stellar colors, comparison with other published catalogs, zero-point offsets determined from the best-fit templates of the spectral energy distribution of spectroscopically observed objects, and the accuracy of photometric redshifts. The catalog is able to detect unreddened star-forming (passive) galaxies with stellar mass of 1010 M☉ at a 50% completeness level to z ∼ 3.4 (2.8), 4.6 (3.2), and 7.0 (4.2) in the three regions. As an example of application, the catalog is used to select both star-forming and passive galaxies at z ∼ 2–4 via the Balmer break. It is also used to study the color–magnitude diagram of galaxies at 0 < z < 4.

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3D-HST WFC3-SELECTED PHOTOMETRIC CATALOGS IN THE FIVE CANDELS/3D-HST FIELDS: PHOTOMETRY, PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS, AND STELLAR MASSES (2014, methodology): “An alternative approach would be to run SExtractor in a “hot” and “cold” mode, as was been done by the GEMS survey (Rix et al. 2004), and more recently, CANDELS (Guo et al. 2013; Galametz et al. 2013).”
STELLAR MASSES FROM THE CANDELS SURVEY: THE GOODS-SOUTH AND UDS FIELDS (2014, methodology): “See Guo et al. (2013) for a summary of the GOODS-S UV-to-mid-IR data set and corresponding survey references.”
The galaxy stellar mass function at 3.5 ≤z ≤ 7.5 in the CANDELS/UDS, GOODS-South, and HUDF fields (2015, methodology): “The B-band VIMOS photometry has been computed with the TFIT software with the same technique adopted for the other ground-based bands, as described by Guo et al. (2013).”
An updated analytic model for attenuation by the intergalactic medium (2014, methodology): “The sample is the galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts and photometry of VLT/VIMOS U , HST/ACS F435W, F606W, F775W, F814W, F850LP, HST/WFC3 F105W, F125W, F160W, VLT/ISAAC Ks, Spitzer/IRAC Ch1 and Ch2 in the c© 2013 RAS, MNRAS 000, 1–17 GOODS-S field (Guo et al. 2013).”
The mass evolution of the first galaxies: stellar mass functions and star formation rates at 4 < z < 7 in the CANDELS GOODS-South field (2014, methodology): “The full details on how the source photometry was obtained are outlined in Guo et al. (2013), however we provide a brief summary of the method used for reference here.”
A deep ALMA image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (2016, methodology): “More recently, the CANDELS programme (Grogin et al. 2011) has provided deep i814 data across the HUDF (reaching 29.8 mag, 5-σ) as part of the CANDELS-DEEP imaging of GOODSSouth (Koekemoer et al. 2011; see also Guo et al. 2013).”
THE EVOLUTION OF THE GALAXY REST-FRAME ULTRAVIOLET LUMINOSITY FUNCTION OVER THE FIRST TWO BILLION YEARS (2014, positive): “The provided rms map has been shown to produce accurate uncertainties, and it has been corrected for pixel-to-pixel correlations that occur as a result of the drizzling process (see Guo et al. 2013), which are typically on the order of 10%–15% of the total rms.”
CEERS Epoch 1 NIRCam Imaging: Reduction Methods and Simulations Enabling Early JWST Science Results (2022, neutral): “This scaling can be estimated by computing the autocorrelation function of background, non-source pixels and determining the amount to which the noise has been suppressed (e.g., Guo et al. 2013).”
LINE-EMITTING GALAXIES BEYOND A REDSHIFT OF 7: AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE EVOLVING NEUTRALITY OF THE INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM (2014, methodology): “In the GOODS-S field, we utilized the published, PSFmatched catalog of Guo et al. (2013) which uses the publicly released v2.”
An extreme [O III] emitter at z = 3.2: a low metallicity Lyman continuum source (2015, methodology): “The photometry from the U VIMOS band to the Spizter/IRAC 8.0µm band is taken from the CANDELS GOODS-S multi-wavelength catalog (Guo et al. 2013).”
THE EVOLUTION OF THE GALAXY STELLAR MASS FUNCTION AT z = 4–8: A STEEPENING LOW-MASS-END SLOPE WITH INCREASING REDSHIFT (2015, methodology): “…were detected in a summed J +H image, using a more aggresive detection scheme compared to that used to build the official CANDELS catalog (e.g., Guo et al. 2013, Barro et al. 2016, in preparation) to detect faint sources at high redshifts, yielding a catalog with the total number of sources a…”
Structural and Star-forming Relations since z ∼ 3: Connecting Compact Star-forming and Quiescent Galaxies (2015, methodology): “This paper is based on a sample of massive galaxies built from the HST/WFC3 F160W selected catalog for the CANDELS GOODS-S field (Guo et al. 2013).”
Early Results from GLASS-JWST. III. Galaxy Candidates at z ∼9–15 (2022, methodology): “Objects were detected using a customized version of SExtractor (Bertin & Arnouts 1996; Guo et al. 2013, v2.”
The Rise of Faint, Red Active Galactic Nuclei at z > 4: A Sample of Little Red Dots in the JWST Extragalactic Legacy Fields (2025, positive): “For this ﬁ t, we use Spitzer IRAC and MIPS ﬂ uxes from the photometric catalog of Y. Guo et al. ( 2013 ) .”
Faint AGNs at z > 4 in the CANDELS GOODS-S field: looking for contributors to the reionization of the Universe (2015, methodology): “We adopted the official photometric catalog released by Guo et al. 2013 selecting galaxies in the WFC3 H band.”
JADES Initial Data Release for the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Revealing the Faint Infrared Sky with Deep JWST NIRCam Imaging (2023, methodology): “We match sources between the CANDELS catalogs created by Guo et al. ( 2013 ) and the JADES catalogs and then compare the measured photometry in each HST ﬁ lter.”
UV LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS AT REDSHIFTS z ∼ 4 TO z ∼ 10: 10,000 GALAXIES FROM HST LEGACY FIELDS (2014, methodology): “The CANDELS team use a similar approach in deriving photometry for the CANDELS-UDS and CANDELS-South fields (Galametz et al. 2013; Guo et al. 2013).”
THE RELATION BETWEEN STAR FORMATION RATE AND STELLAR MASS FOR GALAXIES AT 3.5 ⩽ z ⩽ 6.5 IN CANDELS (2014, methodology): “We use fluxes from the catalog constructed by Guo et al. (2013).”
OBSCURATION-DEPENDENT EVOLUTION OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI (2015, methodology): “The photometric catalogues used to identify X-ray sources include the CANDELS H-band selected multi-wavelength catalog in Guo et al. (2013), the MUSYC catalogue presented by Cardamone et al. (2010) and the TENIS near-infrared selected source catalogue described by Hsieh et al. (2012).”