Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS): motivation, design and target catalogue

L. J. M. Davies; A. S. G. Robotham; S. P. Driver; C. P. Lagos; L. Cortese; E. Mannering; C. Foster; C. Lidman; A. Hashemizadeh; S. Koushan; S. O'Toole; I. K. Baldry; M. Bilicki; J. Bland-Hawthorn; M. N. Bremer; M. J. I. Brown; J. J. Bryant; B. Catinella; S. M. Croom; M. W. Grootes; B. W. Holwerda; M. J. Jarvis; N. Maddox; M. Meyer; A. J. Moffett; S. Phillipps; E. N. Taylor; R. A. Windhorst; C. Wolf

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Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS): motivation, design and target catalogue

L. J. M. Davies, A. S. G. Robotham, S. P. Driver, C. P. Lagos, L. Cortese, E. Mannering, C. Foster, C. Lidman, A. Hashemizadeh, S. Koushan, S. O'Toole, I. K. Baldry, M. Bilicki, J. Bland-Hawthorn, M. N. Bremer, M. J. I. Brown, J. J. Bryant, B. Catinella, S. M. Croom, M. W. GrootesB. W. Holwerda, M. J. Jarvis, N. Maddox, M. Meyer, A. J. Moffett, S. Phillipps, E. N. Taylor, R. A. Windhorst, C. Wolf

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The Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS) is a large spectroscopic campaign at the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) aimed at bridging the near and distant Universe by producing the highest completeness survey of galaxies and groups at intermediate redshifts (0.3 < z < 1.0). Our sample consists of ∼60,000 galaxies to Y<21.2 mag, over ∼6 deg² in three well-studied deep extragalactic fields (Cosmic Origins Survey field, COSMOS, Extended Chandra Deep Field South, ECDFS and the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission Large-Scale Structure region, XMM-LSS - all Large Synoptic Survey Telescope deep-drill fields). This paper presents the broad experimental design of DEVILS. Our target sample has been selected from deep Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) Y-band imaging (VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations, VIDEO and UltraVISTA), with photometry measured by ProFound. Photometric star/galaxy separation is done on the basis of NIR colours, and has been validated by visual inspection. To maximise our observing efficiency for faint targets we employ a redshift feedback strategy, which continually updates our target lists, feeding back the results from the previous night’s observations. We also present an overview of the initial spectroscopic observations undertaken in late 2017 and early 2018.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	768–799
Number of pages	32
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	480
Issue number	1
Early online date	14 Jun 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1553
Publication status	Published - Oct 2018

Keywords

Methods: observational
Surveys
Galaxies: evolution
Galaxies: groups: general
Galaxies: halos
Cosmology: cosmological parameters

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Davies, L. J. M., Robotham, A. S. G., Driver, S. P., Lagos, C. P., Cortese, L., Mannering, E., Foster, C., Lidman, C., Hashemizadeh, A., Koushan, S., O'Toole, S., Baldry, I. K., Bilicki, M., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bremer, M. N., Brown, M. J. I., Bryant, J. J., Catinella, B., Croom, S. M., ... Wolf, C. (2018). Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS): motivation, design and target catalogue. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 480(1), 768–799. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1553

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