4.6 Article

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Survey (VIPERS) First Data Release of 57 204 spectroscopic measurements

Journal

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 562, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201322790

Keywords

galaxies: distances and redshifts; galaxies: statistics; galaxies: fundamental parameters; cosmology: observations; catalogs; large-scale structure of Universe

Funding

  1. INAF
  2. European Research Council through the Darklight ERC Advanced Research Grant [291521]
  3. European Research Council through the EARLY ERC Advanced Research Grant [268107]
  4. Polish National Science Centre [N N203 51 29 38, 2012/07/B/ST9/04425]
  5. Polish-Swiss Astro Project
  6. European Associated Laboratory Astrophysics Poland-France HECOLS
  7. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers [P11802]
  8. European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme)/ERC grant agreement [202781, 202686]
  9. UK Science and Technology Facilities Council through the grant [ST/I001204/1]
  10. CNRS/INSU (Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers)
  11. Programme National Galaxies et Cosmologie (PNCG)
  12. Institut Universitaire de France
  13. the LABEX OCEVU
  14. [ASI-INAF I/023/12/0]
  15. [PRIN MIUR 2010-2011]
  16. Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/K00090X/1, ST/J500665/1, ST/J001422/1] Funding Source: researchfish
  17. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [11F01802] Funding Source: KAKEN
  18. STFC [ST/J500665/1, ST/K00090X/1, ST/J001422/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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We present the first Public Data Release (PDR-1) of the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Survey (VIPERS). It comprises 57 204 spectroscopic measurements together with all additional information necessary for optimal scientific exploitation of the data, in particular the associated photometric measurements and quantification of the photometric and survey completeness. VIPERS is an ESO Large Programme designed to build a spectroscopic sample of similar or equal to 100 000 galaxies with i(AB) < 22.5 and 0.5 < z < 1.2 with high sampling rate (similar or equal to 45%). The survey spectroscopic targets are selected from the CFHTLS-Wide five-band catalogues in the W1 and W4 fields. The final survey will cover a total area of nearly 24 deg(2), for a total comoving volume between z = 0.5 and 1.2 of similar or equal to 4 X 10(7) h(-3) Mpc(3) and a median galaxy redshift of z similar or equal to 0.8. The release presented in this paper includes data from virtually the entire W4 field and nearly half of the W1 area, thus representing 64% of the final dataset. We provide a detailed description of sample selection, observations and data reduction procedures; we summarise the global properties of the spectroscopic catalogue and explain the associated data products and their use, and provide all the details for accessing the data through the survey database (http://vipers.inaf.it) where all information can be queried interactively.

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