DEEP U BAND AND R IMAGING OF GOODS-SOUTH: OBSERVATIONS, DATA REDUCTION AND FIRST RESULTS,

By M. Nonino, Mark Dickinson, P. Rosati, A. Grazian, Naveen A. Reddy, S. Cristiani, M. Giavalisco, H. Kuntschner, E. Vanzella, E. Daddi and 2 more. 2009

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We present deep imaging in the U band covering an area of 630 arcmin2 centered on the southern field of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS). The data were obtained with the VIMOS instrument at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope. The final images reach a magnitude limit Ulim ≈ 29.8 (AB, 1σ, in a 1″ radius aperture), and have good image quality, with full width at half-maximum ≈0.″8. They are significantly deeper than previous U-band images available for the GOODS fields, and better match the sensitivity of other multiwavelength GOODS photometry. The deeper U-band data yield significantly improved photometric redshifts, especially in key redshift ranges such as 2 < z < 4, and deeper color-selected galaxy samples, e.g., Lyman break galaxies at z ≈ 3. We also present the co-addition of archival ESO VIMOS R-band data, with Rlim ≈ 29 (AB, 1σ, 1″ radius aperture), and image quality ≈0.″75. We discuss the strategies for the observations and data reduction, and present the first results from the analysis of the co-added images.

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THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 EARLY RELEASE SCIENCE DATA: PANCHROMATIC FAINT OBJECT COUNTS FOR 0.2–2 μm WAVELENGTH (2010, background): “There is also a wealth of ground- and space-based data, such as deep U+R-band VLT/VIMOS imaging (Nonino et al. 2009), deep VLT/ISAAC JHKs-band imaging (Retzlaff et al. 2010), a very large number of VLT spectra (Vanzella et al. 2005, 2009; Popesso et al. 2009; Balestra et al. 2010), deep Chandra…”
AN ALMA SURVEY OF SUBMILLIMETER GALAXIES IN THE EXTENDED CHANDRA DEEP FIELD SOUTH: THE REDSHIFT DISTRIBUTION AND EVOLUTION OF SUBMILLIMETER GALAXIES (2013, methodology): “We supplement this with U–band data from the GOODS/VIMOS imaging survey (Nonino et al. 2009), covering ∼ 0.17 deg2 of the ECDFS.”
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): “Complementary to the space based imaging of HST and Spitzer is the ground-based imaging of the CTIO U band, VLT/VIMOS U band (Nonino et al. 2009), VLT/ISAAC Ks (Retzlaff et al. 2010) and VLT/HAWK-I Ks (Fontana et al., 2014) bands.”
CANDELS: THE COSMIC ASSEMBLY NEAR-INFRARED DEEP EXTRAGALACTIC LEGACY SURVEY (2011, unknown): “…time of 4 Ms. Additional multi-wavelength data in the GOODS-S field include U -band imaging obtained with VIMOS on the Very Large Telescope (VLT; Nonino et al. 2009), near-IR imaging in the Y band with HAWK-I (Castellano et al. 2010a) and in the J,H, and K-bands with ISAAC (Retzlaff et al.…”
CLASH: WEAK-LENSING SHEAR-AND-MAGNIFICATION ANALYSIS OF 20 GALAXY CLUSTERS (2014, methodology): “Our reduction pipeline derives from Nonino et al. (2009), and has been optimized separately for accurate photometry and weaklensing shape measurements.”
An extreme [O III] emitter at z = 3.2: a low metallicity Lyman continuum source (2015, methodology): “We refer the reader to Nonino et al. (2009) for a complete description of the data reduction (see also Vanzella et al. 2010a).”
The LABOCA survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: A photometric redshift survey of submillimetre galaxies (2010, methodology): “6 SU M M A RY A N D C O N C L U S I O N S We use deep multicolour imaging of the ECDF-S in 17 bands to derive the photometric properties of the counterparts of SMGs in the LESS LABOCA survey of the ECDF-S (Weiß et al. 2009; Biggs et al. 2011).”
CAN MINOR MERGING ACCOUNT FOR THE SIZE GROWTH OF QUIESCENT GALAXIES? NEW RESULTS FROM THE CANDELS SURVEY (2011, methodology): “To this we add the GOODS BV iz ACS imaging, as well as ground-based data in U , R and K from VIMOS (Nonino et al. 2009) and ISAAC (Retzlaff et al. 2010) at the Very Large Telescope (VLT).”
GOODS-ALMA: 1.1 mm galaxy survey (2018, methodology): “The Guo et al. (2013) catalogue also includes galaxy magnitudes from the VLT, taken in the U-band with VIMOS (Nonino et al. 2009), and in the Ks-band with ISAAC (Retzlaff et al. 2010) and HAWK-I (Fontana et al. 2014).”
AN ALMA SURVEY OF SUB-MILLIMETER GALAXIES IN THE EXTENDED CHANDRA DEEP FIELD SOUTH: PHYSICAL PROPERTIES DERIVED FROM ULTRAVIOLET-TO-RADIO MODELING (2015, methodology): “Most of the UBVRIzJHK photometry comes from the MUSYC survey (Taylor et al. 2009), which is supplemented with (deeper) U-band data from the GOODS/ VIMOS imaging survey (Nonino et al. 2009).”
3D-HST WFC3-SELECTED PHOTOMETRIC CATALOGS IN THE FIVE CANDELS/3D-HST FIELDS: PHOTOMETRY, PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS, AND STELLAR MASSES (2014, unknown): “0 data release (Nonino et al. 2009).”
CANDELS MULTI-WAVELENGTH CATALOGS: SOURCE DETECTION AND PHOTOMETRY IN THE GOODS-SOUTH FIELD (2013, result): “Nonino et al. (2009) give details of the U-band imaging.”
A deep ALMA image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (2016, methodology): “The core HST imaging dataset is extended to shorter wavelengths by the inclusion of deep VLT VIMOS imaging in the U -band (reaching 28 mag, 5-σ; Nonino et al. 2009), and to longer wavelengths by the deepest ever Ksband imaging obtained with HAWK-I on the VLT through the HUGS survey (Fontana et al.…”