1110.4371 (C. S. Kochanek et al.)

AGES: The AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey    [PDF]

C. S. Kochanek, D. J. Eisenstein, R. J. Cool, N. Caldwell, R. J. Assef, B. T. Jannuzi, C. Jones, S. S. Murray, W. R. Forman, A. Dey, M. J. I. Brown, P. Eisenhardt, A. H. Gonzalez, P. Green, D. Stern

The AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (AGES) is a redshift survey covering, in its standard fields, 7.7 square degrees of the Bootes field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS). The final sample consists of 23745 redshifts. There are well-defined galaxy samples in ten bands (the Bw, R, I, J, K, IRAC 3.6, 4.5, 5.8 and 8.0 micron and MIPS 24 micron bands) to a limiting magnitude of I<20 mag for spectroscopy. For these galaxies, we obtained 18163 redshifts from a sample of 35200 galaxies, where random sparse sampling was used to define statistically complete sub-samples in all ten photometric bands. The median galaxy redshift is 0.31, and 90% of the redshifts are in the range 0.085View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.4371