The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS): Overview

By N. Scoville, H. Aussel, M. Brusa, P. Capak, C. Carollo, M. Elvis, M. Giavalisco, L. Guzzo, G. Hasinger, Christopher Impey and 12 more. 2006

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The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) is designed to probe the correlated evolution of galaxies, star formation, active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and dark matter (DM) with large-scale structure (LSS) over the redshift range z > 0.5-6. The survey includes multiwavelength imaging and spectroscopy from X-ray-to-radio wavelengths covering a 2 deg2 area, including HST imaging. Given the very high sensitivity and resolution of these data sets, COSMOS also provides unprecedented samples of objects at high redshift with greatly reduced cosmic variance, compared to earlier surveys. Here we provide a brief overview of the survey strategy, the characteristics of the major COSMOS data sets, and a summary the science goals.

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THE HETDEX PILOT SURVEY. II. THE EVOLUTION OF THE Lyα ESCAPE FRACTION FROM THE ULTRAVIOLET SLOPE AND LUMINOSITY FUNCTION OF 1.9 (2010, methodology): “…arcmin2 of blank sky in four extra-galactic fields (COSMOS: 71.6 arcmin2, GOODS-N: 35.5 arcmin2, MUNICS-S2: 49.9 arcmin2, and XMM-LSS: 12.3 arcmin2; Scoville et al. 2007; Dickinson et al. 2003; Drory et al. 2001; Pierre et al. 2004) using VIRUS-P on the 2.7m Harlan J. Smith telescope at McDonald…”
A characteristic oxygen abundance gradient in galaxy disks unveiled with CALIFA (2013, background): “…role in the new understanding of the Universe and its constituents brought about by the remarkable flow of data over the past few years, thanks to large surveys such as the 2dFGRS (Folkes et al. 1999), SDSS (York et al. 2000), GEMS (Rix et al. 2004), or COSMOS (Scoville et al. 2007), to name a few.”
Erratum: Recovering galaxy stellar population properties from broad-band spectral energy distribution fitting (2012, positive): “In the fitting we adopt errorbars typical of those of the COSMOS survey (Capak et al. 2007) for mock galaxies at redshifts 6 1 (∼ 0.3 mag for near-IR bands and ∼ 0.05 mag otherwise) and those of GOODS star-forming objects (Giavalisco et al. 2004) for mock galaxies at redshift > 2 (∼ 0.1 mag).”
The VISTA deep extragalactic observations (VIDEO) survey (2012, methodology): “These fields have a wealth of data from the X-rays through to the radio waveband, and are, along with COSMOS/UltraVISTA, the primary fields for observations with future facilities in the Southern hemisphere.”
The Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph (2011, methodology): “Surveys such as the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey (Driver et al. 2011) and the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS; Scoville et al. 2007) show the value of this multi-wavelength approach.”
THE CHANDRA COSMOS LEGACY SURVEY: OPTICAL/IR IDENTIFICATIONS (2015, methodology): “…Civano et al. 2012b, C12 hereafter): this extended follow-up is also due to the comprehensive nature of the Cosmic Evolutionary Survey (COSMOS; Scoville et al. 2007) and to its multiwavelength photometric and spectroscopic database (Schinnerer et al. 2007; Sanders et al. 2007; Taniguchi et…”
HiZELS: a high-redshift survey of Hα emitters – I. The cosmic star formation rate and clustering at z= 2.23 (2008, methodology): “We have obtained deep narrow-band imaging atλ = 2.121µm to search forz = 2.23 Hα emitters over 0.603 sq. degrees of the Cosmological Evolution Survey field (COSMOS) (Scoville et al. 2007).”
X-shooter reveals powerful outflows in z ∼ 1.5 X-ray selected obscured quasi-stellar objects (2014, methodology): “In a previous work based on XMM-Newton observations of the COSMOS field (Scoville et al. 2007) we proposed a criterion to isolate such very rare objects, on the basis of their observed red colors and high X-ray to optical and/or mid-infrared to optical flux ratios (Brusa et al. 2010, hereinafter…”
Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (2025, neutral): “The odin special tile targeted Ly α emitters ( LAEs ) and Lyman-break galaxies ( LBGs ) selected in the COSMOS field ( N. Scoville et al. 2007 ) .”
The XMM-Newton Wide-Field Survey in the COSMOS Field. I. Survey Description (2006, methodology): “…36 XMM–Newton pointings and overdensities in optical photometric redshift catalogs has detected 72 candidate groups and clusters over the whole field (Scoville et al. 2007; Finoguenov et al. 2007), of which the 19 most massive ones have independently been confirmed through a weak lensing analysis…”
THE XMM-NEWTON WIDE-FIELD SURVEY IN THE COSMOS FIELD (XMM-COSMOS): DEMOGRAPHY AND MULTIWAVELENGTH PROPERTIES OF OBSCURED AND UNOBSCURED LUMINOUS ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI (2010, methodology): “The ∼ 2 deg2 area of the HST/ACS COSMOS Treasury program (Scoville et al. 2007a,b; Koekemoer et al. 2007) has been surveyed with XMM–Newton for a total of ∼1.55 Ms during AO3, AO4 and AO6 cycles of XMM observations (Cappelluti et al. 2007, Cappelluti et al. 2009, hereafter C09).”
Bars in Disk-dominated and Bulge-dominated Galaxies at z ~ 0: New Insights from ~3600 SDSS Galaxies (2007, methodology): “…J. A., Barnes, E. I., & Powell, B. A. 2007, AJ, 133, 2846 Regan, M. W., & Teuben, P. J. 2004, ApJ, 600, 595 Rix, H.-W., et al. 2004, ApJS, 152, 163 Scoville et al. 2007, ApJS, 172, 1 Sellwood, J. A., & Evans, N. W. 2001, ApJ, 546, 176 Shen, J., & Sellwood, J. A. 2004, ApJ, 604, 614 Sheth, K.,…”
Panchromatic spectral energy distributions of Herschel sources (2013, methodology): “…the Two Degree Field survey (Colless 1999), the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS, Kleinmann et al. 1994), the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS, Scoville et al. 2007), the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS, Dickinson et al. 2001), the All-wavelength Extended Groth Strip…”
SEDS: THE SPITZER EXTENDED DEEP SURVEY. SURVEY DESIGN, PHOTOMETRY, AND DEEP IRAC SOURCE COUNTS (2013, background): “High-resolution HST/ ACS F814W imaging is available for the entire field (Scoville et al. 2007a; Koekemoer et al. 2007).”
A PUBLIC Ks-SELECTED CATALOG IN THE COSMOS/UltraVISTA FIELD: PHOTOMETRY, PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS, AND STELLAR POPULATION PARAMETERS, (2013, background): “In addition to an unique combination of area and depth, one of the main strengths of UltraVISTA is that the survey field is the COSMOS field (Scoville et al. 2007).”
The role of minor mergers in the recent star formation history of early-type galaxies (2007, background): “Current galaxy surveys such as COSMOS (Scoville et al. 2007) make such analyses possible and results from such studies will be presented in a forthcoming paper.”
A new measurement of the evolving near-infrared galaxy luminosity function out to z≃ 4: a continuing challenge to theoretical models of galaxy formation (2008, background): “Several deep multi-wavelengths surveys are now ongoing or have just been completed (Cimatti et al. 2002; Giavalisco et al. 2004; Rix et al. 2004; Lawrence et al. 2007; Scoville et al. 2007) with the aim of tracing the assembly history of galaxies.”