The Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS): Survey Definition and Goals

By J. Mauduit, M. Lacy, D. Farrah, J. Surace, M. Jarvis, S. Oliver, C. Maraston, Mattia Vaccari, L. Marchetti, G. Zeimann and 74 more. 2012

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We present the Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS), an 18 deg2 medium-deep survey at 3.6 and 4.5 μm with the postcryogenic Spitzer Space Telescope to ≈2 μJy (AB = 23.1) depth of five highly observed astronomical fields (ELAIS-N1, ELAIS-S1, Lockman Hole, Chandra Deep Field South, and XMM-LSS). SERVS is designed to enable the study of galaxy evolution as a function of environment from z ∼ 5 to the present day and is the first extragalactic survey that is both large enough and deep enough to put rare objects such as luminous quasars and galaxy clusters at z ≳ 1 into their cosmological context. SERVS is designed to overlap with several key surveys at optical, near- through far-infrared, submillimeter, and radio wavelengths to provide an unprecedented view of the formation and evolution of massive galaxies. In this article, we discuss the SERVS survey design, the data processing flow from image reduction and mosaicking to catalogs, and coverage of ancillary data from other surveys in the SERVS fields. We also highlight a variety of early science results from the survey.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation

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• The VISTA deep extragalactic observations (VIDEO) survey (2012, methodology): “…of these positions was driven by the need to cover the wealth of ancillary data available in these fields, including Spitzer (Lonsdale et al. 2004; Mauduit et al. 2012) and Herschel (Oliver et al. 2012), in addition to future ground-based optical data from both the Very Large Telescope (VLT)…”
• Stellar masses of SDSS-III/BOSS galaxies at z ∼ 0.5 and constraints to galaxy formation models (2012, unknown): “2011; SERVS, Mauduit et al. 2012.”
• HYDROGEN-POOR SUPERLUMINOUS SUPERNOVAE AND LONG-DURATION GAMMA-RAY BURSTS HAVE SIMILAR HOST GALAXIES (2013, background): “Four of the lower-redshift PS1 host galaxies are detected in archival images from the Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS; Mauduit et al. 2012), the COSMOS Spitzer survey (S-COSMOS; Sanders et al. 2007), or the Spitzer Extended Deep Survey (SEDS; Ashby et al. 2013).”
• The VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey: ~10 000 galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts to study galaxy assembly at early epochs 2 < z ≃ 6 (2014, methodology): “More recently the SERVS survey obtained deeper data with Spitzerin the 3.6µm and 4.5µm bands down toAB = 23.1 at 3.6µm (Mauduit et al. 2012).”
• The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy - an overview (2016, unknown): “In combination with existing infrared surveys such as Spitzer Infrared Array Camera and WISE within the DES survey area, we will also be able to detect very high redshift clusters in the range z = 1.0–1.5 and possibly beyond.”