The All-wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS) Data Sets
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/ Authors
M. Davis, P. Guhathakurta, N. Konidaris, J. A. Newman, M. L. N. Ashby, A. D. Biggs, P. Barmby, K. Bundy, S. Chapman, A. L. Coil
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C. Conselice, M. Cooper, D. Croton, P. Eisenhardt, R. Ellis, S. Faber, T. Fang, G. G. Fazio, A. Georgakakis, B. Gerke, W. M. Goss, S. Gwyn, J. Harker, A. Hopkins, J. -S. Huang, R. J. Ivison, S. A. Kassin, E. Kirby, A. Koekemoer, D. C. Koo, E. Laird, E. Le Floc'h, L. Lin, J. Lotz
/ Abstract
In this the first of a series of Letters, we present a description of the panchromatic data sets that have been acquired in the Extended Groth Strip region of the sky. Our survey, the All-wavelength Extended Groth strip International Survey (AEGIS), is intended to study the physical properties and evolutionary processes of galaxies at z ~ 1. It includes the following deep, wide-field imaging data sets: Chandra/ACIS X-ray (0.5 - 10 keV), GALEX ultraviolet (1200 - 2500 Angstrom), CFHT/MegaCam Legacy Survey optical (3600 - 9000 Angstroms), CFHT/CFH12K optical (4500 - 9000 Angstroms), Hubble Space Telescope/ACS optical (4400 - 8500 Angstroms), Palomar/WIRC near-infrared (1.2 - 2.2 microns), Spitzer/IRAC mid-infrared (3.6 - 8.0 microns), Spitzer/MIPS far-infrared (24 - 70 microns), and VLA radio continuum (6 - 20 cm). In addition, this region of the sky has been targeted for extensive spectroscopy using the DEIMOS spectrograph on the Keck II 10 m telescope. Our survey is compared to other large multiwavelength surveys in terms of depth and sky coverage.