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J/A+A/512/A12  VLT/VIMOS spectroscopy in GOODS-South field    (Balestra+, 2010)
The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey.
VLT/VIMOS spectroscopy in the GOODS-South field: part II.
    Balestra I., Mainieri V., Popesso P., Dickinson M., Nonino M., Rosati P.,
    Teimoorinia H., Vanzella E., Cristiani S., Cesarsky C., Fosbury R.A.E.,
    Kuntschner H., Rettura A.
   <Astron. Astrophys., 512, A12-12 (2010)>
   =2010A&A...512A..12B
ADC_Keywords: Surveys ; Galaxies, photometry ; Redshifts ; Spectroscopy

Keywords: large scale structure of Universe - catalogs - surveys -
          galaxies: evolution - galaxies: high-redshift -
          cosmology: observations

Abstract:
    We present the full data set of the VIsible Multi-Object Spectrograph
    (VIMOS) spectroscopic campaign of the ESO/GOODS program in the Chandra
    Deep Field South (CDFS), which complements the FORS2 ESO/GOODS
    spectroscopic campaign.

    The ESO/GOODS spectroscopic programs are aimed at reaching
    signal-to-noise ratios adequate to measure redshifts for galaxies with
    AB magnitudes in the range ∼24-25 in the B and R band using VIMOS, and
    in the z band using FORS2.

Description:
    The GOODS/VIMOS spectroscopic campaign is structured in two separate
    surveys using two different VIMOS grisms. The VIMOS Low Resolution
    Blue (LR-Blue) and Medium Resolution (MR) orange grisms have been used
    to cover different redshift ranges. The LR-Blue campaign is aimed at
    observing galaxies mainly at 1.8<z<3.5, while the MR campaign mainly
    aims at galaxies at z<1 and Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs) at z>3.5.

File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
lrv2c.dat        219     3305   GOODS/VIMOS LR-blue (low resolution) catalog,
                              cleaned version, V2.0.1
lrv2.dat         219     3634   GOODS/VIMOS LR-blue (low resolution) catalog,
                              multiple entries version, V2.0.1
mrv2c.dat        219     1297   GOODS/VIMOS MR (medium resolution) catalog,
                              cleaned version, V2.0
mrv2.dat         219     1418   GOODS/VIMOS MR (medium resolution) catalog,
                              multiple entries version, V2.0
fits/*             0    10270   Individual FITS and PS spectra,
                              versions V2.0 and V2.0.1
fits.old/*         0        6   Individual FITS and PS spectra of V2.0 version,
                              replaced in V2.0.1 version


See also:
        II/261   : GOODS initial results (Giavalisco+, 2004)
   J/A+A/375/1   : IR obs. of Chandra Deep Field + HDF-South (Saracco+, 2001)
   J/A+A/449/951 : GOODS-MUSIC sample: multicolour catalog (Grazian+, 2006)
   J/A+A/434/53  : GOODS-South Field redshifts (Vanzella+, 2005)
   J/A+A/454/423 : GOODS-South Field VLT/FORS2 redshifts. II. (Vanzella+, 2006)
   J/A+A/478/83  : GOODS-South Field VLT/FORS2 redshifts. III. (Vanzella+, 2008)
   J/A+A/511/A50 : JHks of GOODS-South field (Retzlaff+, 2010)


Byte-by-byte Description of file: [lm]*.dat

   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations

   1- 19  A19   ---     GOODS     Source identification (JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s)
  22- 49  A28   ---     VIMOS     Source identification
                                   (GOODSLRb... or GOODSMR...) (1)
  52- 62  F11.8 deg     RAdeg     Right Ascension (J2000) WFI
  65- 76  F12.8 deg     DEdeg     Declination (J2000) WFI
  79- 89  F11.8 deg     RAvim     Right Ascension (J2000) VIMOS
  90-101  F12.8 deg     DEvim     Declination (J2000) VIMOS
 102-107  F6.3  mag     Bmag      ?=99.999 WFI B (AB) magnitude
 110-115  F6.3  mag     e_Bmag    ?=9.999 Error B magnitude (WFI)
 118-123  F6.3  mag     Rmag      ?=99.999 WFI Rc (AB) magnitude
 126-131  F6.3  mag     e_Rmag    ?=9.999 Error R magnitude (WFI)
 134-139  F6.3  mag     zmag      ?=99.999 GEMS z (AB) magnitude
 143-147  F5.3  mag     e_zmag    ?=9.999 Error z magnitude (GEMS)
 150-155  F6.4  ---     z         ?=9.9999 Redshift (9.9999=no redshift)
     158  A1    ---     q_z       [ABCX] Quality flag (A=best) ,(2)
 161-205  A45   ---     Comm      Comments (spectral features)
 208-216  A9    ---     Lab       Label for primary (selected targets)
                                   or secondary (serendipitous) objects
     219  I1    ---     Ver       [1/2]? VIMOS release number
                                   (1=first release, 2=second release)

Note (1): VIMOS names:
    GOODSLRb00nnqnNNN, GOODSLRb00nqnNN_N,
    GOODSLRb003newnqnNNN, GOODSLRb003newqnNNN or
    GOODSLRb003dec06nqnNN_N
    GOODSMR00nnqnNNN, GOODSMR00nqnNN_N,
    GOODSMRnewnaqnNN_N, GOODSMRdec06nqnNNN
Note (2): Quality flag as follows:
      A = secure
      B = likely
      C = tentative
      X = no redshift


History:
  * 21-Jun-2010: From electronic version of the journal
  * 20-Oct-2010: Version 2.0.1
(End)                                      Patricia Vannier [CDS]    21-Jun-2010