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THE SPITZER DEEP, WIDE-FIELD SURVEY

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M. L. N. Ashby1, D. Stern2, M. Brodwin1,22, R. Griffith2, P. Eisenhardt2, S. Kozłowski3, C. S. Kochanek3,4, J. J. Bock5, C. Borys5, K. Brand6, M. J. I. Brown7, R. Cool8, A. Cooray9, S. Croft10, A. Dey11, D. Eisenstein12, A. H. Gonzalez13, V. Gorjian2, N. A. Grogin6, R. J. Ivison14,15, J. Jacob2, B. T. Jannuzi11, A. Mainzer2, L. A. Moustakas2, H. J. A. Röttgering16, N. Seymour17, H. A. Smith1, S. A. Stanford18, J. R. Stauffer19, I. Sullivan6, W. van Breugel20, S. P. Willner1 and E. L. Wright21

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The Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey (SDWFS) is a four-epoch infrared survey of 10 deg2 in the Boötes field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey using the IRAC instrument on the Spitzer Space Telescope. SDWFS, a Spitzer Cycle 4 Legacy project, occupies a unique position in the area-depth survey space defined by other Spitzer surveys. The four epochs that make up SDWFS permit—for the first time—the selection of infrared-variable and high proper motion objects over a wide field on timescales of years. Because of its large survey volume, SDWFS is sensitive to galaxies out to z ~ 3 with relatively little impact from cosmic variance for all but the richest systems. The SDWFS data sets will thus be especially useful for characterizing galaxy evolution beyond z ~ 1.5. This paper explains the SDWFS observing strategy and data processing, presents the SDWFS mosaics and source catalogs, and discusses some early scientific findings. The publicly released, full-depth catalogs contain 6.78, 5.23, 1.20, and 0.96 × 105 distinct sources detected to the average 5σ, 4''-diameter, aperture-corrected limits of 19.77, 18.83, 16.50, and 15.82 Vega mag at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8.0 μm, respectively. The SDWFS number counts and color-color distribution are consistent with other, earlier Spitzer surveys. At the 6 minute integration time of the SDWFS IRAC imaging, >50% of isolated Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty cm radio sources and >80% of on-axis XBoötes sources are detected out to 8.0 μm. Finally, we present the four highest proper motion IRAC-selected sources identified from the multi-epoch imaging, two of which are likely field brown dwarfs of mid-T spectral class.


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infrared: galaxies; infrared: stars; surveys


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Issue 1 (2009 August 10)

Received 2009 February 3, accepted for publication 2009 June 1

Published 2009 July 23



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