A Highly Complete Spectroscopic Survey of the GOODS-N Field

By A. Barger, L. Cowie, Wei-Hao Wang. 2008

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We present a table of redshifts for 2907 galaxies and stars in the 145 arcmin2 HST ACS GOODS-North, making this the most spectroscopically complete redshift sample obtained to date in a field of this size. We also include the redshifts, where available, in a table containing just under 7000 galaxies from the ACS area with Ks, AB < 24.5 measured from a deep Ks image obtained with WIRCam on the CFHT, as well as in a table containing 1016 sources with NUVAB < 25 and 478 sources with FUVAB < 25.5 (there is considerable overlap) measured from the deep GALEX images in the ACS area. Finally, we include the redshifts, where available, in a table containing the 1199 24 μm sources to 80 μJy measured from the wider area Spitzer GOODS-North. The redshift identifications are greater than 90% complete to magnitudes of F 435WAB = 24.5, F 850LPAB = 23.3, and Ks, AB = 21.5, and to 24 μm fluxes of 250 μJy. An extensive analysis of these data appear in a companion paper, but here we test the efficiency of color-selection techniques to identify populations of high-redshift galaxies and active galactic nuclei. We also examine the feasibility of doing tomography of the intergalactic medium with a 30 m telescope.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Instrumentation

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• GOODS-HERSCHEL: STAR FORMATION, DUST ATTENUATION, AND THE FIR–RADIO CORRELATION ON THE MAIN SEQUENCE OF STAR-FORMING GALAXIES UP TO z ≃ 4 (2014, result): “When comparing to the spectroscopic sample of Barger et al. (2008) and Stern et al. (in preparation), we reach a relative (i.e.,∆z = (zphot− zspec)/(1+ zspec)) accuracy of 3% (see Figure 1), with less than 3% catastrophic outliers (i.e., objects with ∆z > 0.2).”
• THE DEEP2 GALAXY REDSHIFT SURVEY: DESIGN, OBSERVATIONS, DATA REDUCTION, AND REDSHIFTS (2012, background): “Later surveys by the same group have probed the nature of distant Xray sources (e.g., Barger et al. 2005, 2008).”
• CANDELS: THE COSMIC ASSEMBLY NEAR-INFRARED DEEP EXTRAGALACTIC LEGACY SURVEY (2011, unknown): “Furthermore, the field has been the subject of numerous spectroscopic surveys (e.g. Steidel et al. 2003; Wirth et al. 2004; Treu et al. 2005; Strolger et al. 2005; Reddy et al. 2006; Barger et al. 2008; Yoshikawa et al. 2010; Daddi et al. 2010; Cooper et al. 2011).”
• GALAXY STRUCTURE AND MODE OF STAR FORMATION IN THE SFR–MASS PLANE FROM z ∼ 2.5 TO z ∼ 0.1 (2011, methodology): “%) of galaxies at 1.5 < z < 2.5 that have a spectroscopic redshift from one of the many spectroscopic campaigns in the above four fields (see, e.g., Vanzella et al. 2008; Lilly et al. 2009; Barger et al. 2008), we adopt the zspec as redshift in our analysis.”
• GOODS-Herschel: the far-infrared view of star formation in active galactic nucleus host galaxies since z ≈ 3 (2011, result): “When comparing to the spectroscopic sample of Barger et al. (2008), we reached a relative (i.e.,∆z = |zphot−zspec|/[1+zspec]) photo-z accuracy of 4 per cent with 3 per cent of catastrophic outliers (i.e. objects with∆z> 0.2).”
• The deepest Herschel-PACS far-infrared survey: number counts and infrared luminosity functions from combined PEP/GOODS-H observations (2013, methodology): “In the GOODS-N field, we use a z + K bands selected PSF-matched catalogue created for the PEP survey10 (Berta et al. 2010, 2011), with photometry in 16 bands and a collection of spectroscopic redshifts (mainly from Barger et al. 2008).”
• THE MOSFIRE DEEP EVOLUTION FIELD (MOSDEF) SURVEY: REST-FRAME OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY FOR ∼1500 H-SELECTED GALAXIES AT 1.37 ≤ z ≤ 3.8 ?> (2014, background): “Additional spectroscopic redshifts are included as well (Reddy et al. 2006; Barger et al. 2008; Coil et al. 2009, 2011; Cooper et al. 2012; Newman et al. 2013; van de Sande et al. 2013).”
• The far-infrared/radio correlation as probed by Herschel (2010, background): “1) with a S 1.4 GHz limit of ∼20 μJy, 137 with spectroscopic redshifts (Barger et al. 2008), the remainder with photometric redshifts (〈z〉 = 0.94; interquartile z, 0.56–1.76); 3. a LIR-matched sample of 652 sources spanning z = 0−2, selected initially at 24 μm (Magnelli et al. 2009; Berta et al.…”
• Star formation in AGN hosts in GOODS-N (2010, methodology): “We use both spectroscopic (Barger et al. 2008, 57% of our X-ray AGN) and photometric redshifts (F. Bauer, mostly based on Barger et al. 2003).”
• THE MOST LUMINOUS z ∼ 9–10 GALAXY CANDIDATES YET FOUND: THE LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, COSMIC STAR-FORMATION RATE, AND THE FIRST MASS DENSITY ESTIMATE AT 500 Myr (2013, background): “′′9 from a bright galaxy at a spectroscopic redshift zspec = 1.02 (Barger et al. 2008).”
• 3D-HST WFC3-SELECTED PHOTOMETRIC CATALOGS IN THE FIVE CANDELS/3D-HST FIELDS: PHOTOMETRY, PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS, AND STELLAR MASSES (2014, background): “The MODS redshifts are compiled from Yoshikawa et al. (2010); Barger et al. (2008); Reddy et al. (2006); Treu et al. (2005); Wirth et al. (2004); Cowie et al. (2004); Cohen (2001); Cohen et al. (2000); Dawson et al. (2001).”
• The evolution of the dust temperatures of galaxies in the SFR–M∗ plane up to z ~ 2 (2013, methodology): “We use spectroscopic redshifts coming from a combination of various studies (Cohen et al. 2000; Wirth et al. 2004; Cowie et al. 2004; Le Fèvre et al. 2004; Mignoli et al. 2005; Vanzella et al. 2006; Reddy et al. 2006; Barger et al. 2008; Cimatti et al. 2008; Lilly et al. 2009).”
• A remarkably flat relationship between the average star formation rate and AGN luminosity for distant X-ray AGN. (2015, methodology): “For the sources in GOODSN, we created our own compilation using catalogues of spectroscopic redshifts from Barger et al. (2008) and Teplitz et al. (2011) and photometric redshifts from Wirth et al. (2004) and Pannella et al. (2009).”
• LARGE AREA SURVEY FOR z = 7 GALAXIES IN SDF AND GOODS-N: IMPLICATIONS FOR GALAXY FORMATION AND COSMIC REIONIZATION (2009, unknown): “…(2006), Iye et al. (2006), Nagao et al. (2007), Hayashi et al. (2009), and Ly et al. (2009) for SDF, and Wirth et al. (2004), Reddy et al. (2006), Barger et al. (2008), Cohen et al. (2000); Cohen (2001), Steidel et al. (1996, 1999, 2003), Phillips et al. (1997), Lowenthal et al. (1997), and…”