Journal
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 609, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201630114
Keywords
cosmology: observations; large-scale structure of Universe; galaxies: distances and redshifts; galaxies: statistics; surveys
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Funding
- INAF through PRIN
- European Research Council [291521, 268107, 67093, 202686]
- Labex OCEVU [ANR-11-LABX-0060]
- National Science Centre [UMO-2012/07/B/ST9/04425, UMO-2013/09/D/ST9/04030]
- UK Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/I001204/1]
- PRIN MIUR
- PRIN INAF
- CNRS/INSU (Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers)
- ANR Spin(e) through the french grant [ANR-13-BS05-0005]
- Institut Universitaire de France
- OCEVU Labex [ANR-11-LABX-0060]
- A*MIDEX project - Investissements d'Avenir French government program [ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02]
- Programme National Galaxies et Cosmologie (PNCG)
- Polish NCN grant [DEC-2013/08/M/ST9/00664]
- [ASI-INAFI/023/12/0]
- STFC [ST/K004719/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We present the full public data release (PDR-2) of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS), performed at the ESO VLT. We release redshifts, spectra, CFHTLS magnitudes and ancillary information (as masks and weights) for a complete sample of 86,775 galaxies (plus 4,732 other objects, including stars and serendipitous galaxies); we also include their full photometrically-selected parent catalogue. The sample is magnitude limited to i(AB) <= 22.5, with an additional colour-colour pre-selection devised as to exclude galaxies at z<0.5. This practically doubles the effective sampling of the VIMOS spectrograph over the range 0.5 < z < 1.2 (reaching 47% on average), yielding a final median local galaxy density close to 5 x 10(-3) h(-3) Mpc(-3). The total area spanned by the final data set is similar or equal to 23.5 deg(-2), corresponding to 288 VIMOS fields with marginal overlaps, split over two regions within the CFHTLS-Wide W1 and W4 equatorial fields (at R.A. similar or equal to 2 and similar or equal to 22 hours, respectively). Spectra were observed at a resolution R=220, covering a wavelength range 5500-9500 Angstrom. Data reduction and redshift measurements were performed through a fully automated pipeline; all redshift determinations were then visually validated and assigned a quality flag. Measurements with a quality flag >= 2 are shown to have a confidence level of 96% or larger and make up 88% of all measured galaxy redshifts (76,552 out of 86,775), constituting the VIPERS prime catalogue for statistical investigations. For this sample the rms redshift error, estimated using repeated measurements of about 3,000 galaxies, is found to be sigma(z) = 0.00054(1+z). All data are available at http://vipers.inaf.it and on the ESO Archive.
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