Open AccessWide‐field optical imaging on ELAIS N1, ELAIS N2, First Look Survey and Lockman Hole: observations and source catalogues
Author(s) -
GonzálezSolares E. A.,
Irwin M.,
McMahon R. G.,
Hodgkin S.,
Lewis J. R.,
Walton N. A.,
Jarvis M.,
Marchetti L.,
Oliver S.,
PérezFour I.,
Siana B.,
Surace J.,
Vaccari M.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058
H-Index - 383
eISSN - 1365-2966
pISSN - 0035-8711
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19082.x
Subject(s) - physics , astrophysics , sky , telescope , astronomy , redshift , galaxy , infrared , magnitude (astronomy) , source counts , data set , statistics , mathematics
We present u‐, g‐, r‐, i‐ and z‐ band optical images and associated catalogues taken primarily with the Isaac Newton Telescope Wide Field Camera on the European Large Area ISO Survey (ELAIS) N1 and N2, First Look Survey and Lockman Hole fields comprising a total of 1000 h of integration time over 80 deg 2 and approximately 4.3 million objects. In this paper we outline the observations and data processing and characterize the completeness, reliability, photometric and astrometric accuracy of this data set. All images have been photometrically calibrated using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and a uniform and homogeneous data set is composed over all the observed fields. Magnitude limits are u, g, r, i, z of 23.9, 24.5, 24.0, 23.3, 22.0 (AB, 5σ). These data have been used for optical identification of past and ongoing projects including the surveys ELAIS, Spitzer Wide‐Area Infrared Extragalactic Survey, Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey and Herschel Multi‐tiered Extragalactic Survey.