The VIMOS VLT deep survey - First epoch VVDS-deep survey: 11 564 spectra with 17.5 $\leq$ I$_\textit{\textbf{\small AB}}$ $\leq$ 24, and the redshift distribution over 0 $\leq$ z $\leq$ 5

By O. Fèvre, G. Vettolani, B. Garilli, L. Tresse, D. Bottini, V. Brun, D. Maccagni, J. Picat, R. Scaramella, M. Scodeggio and 38 more. 2004

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This paper presents the ``First Epoch\'\' sample from the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS). The VVDS goals, observations, data reduction with VIPGI, and redshift measurement with KBRED are discussed. Data have been obtained with the VIsible Multi Object Spectrograph (VIMOS) on the ESO-VLT UT3, allowing to observe ~600 slits simultaneously at R~230. A total of 11564 objects have been observed in the VVDS-02h and VVDS-CDFS Deep fields over a total area of 0.61deg^2, selected solely on the basis of apparent magnitude 17.5 <=I_{AB} <=24. The VVDS covers the redshift range 0 < z <= 5. It is successfully going through the ``redshift desert\'\' 1.523.5, probing the bright star forming population of galaxies. This sample provides an unprecedented dataset to study galaxy evolution over 90% of the life of the universe

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation

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Citations in the corpus

• The VIMOS VLT deep survey: the assembly history of the stellar mass in galaxies: from the young to the old universe (2007, unknown): “Multicolour photometry is available for each field (Le Fèvre et al. 2004).”
• Galaxy Luminosity Functions to z~1 from DEEP2 and COMBO-17: Implications for Red Galaxy Formation (2005, unknown): “Typical catastrophic failure rates for COMBO-17 galaxies are ∼ 1% in the magnitude range used for the LFs, as measured using galaxies in common between W04 and Le Fèvre et al. (2004) in Chandra Deep Field South.”
• COSMOS2020: A Panchromatic View of the Universe to z ∼ 10 from Two Complementary Catalogs (2021, unknown): “They follow a flagging system described in section 6 of Le Fèvre et al. (2005).”
• Cosmic chronometers: constraining the equation of state of dark energy. I: H(z) measurements (2009, unknown): “The VVDS [45] is the VIMOS-VLT survey carried out by the VLT/ESO telescope that spectroscopically targeted galaxies in the range 17.”