VIII/95 Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (Oliver+, 2012)
The Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey: HerMES.
Oliver S.J., Bock J., Altieri B., Amblard A., Arumugam V., Aussel H.,
Babbedge T., Beelen A., Bethermin M., Blain A., Boselli A., Bridge C.,
Brisbin D., Buat V., Burgarella D., Castro-Rodriguez N., Cava A.,
Chanial P., Cirasuolo M., Clements D.L., Conley A., Conversi L., Cooray A.,
Dowell C.D., Dubois E.N., Dwek E., Dye S., Eales S., Elbaz D., Farrah D.,
Feltre A., Ferrero P., Fiolet N., Fox M., Franceschini A., Gear W.,
Giovannoli E., Glenn J., Gong Y., Gonzalez Solares E.A., Griffin M.,
Halpern M., Harwit M., Hatziminaoglou E., Heinis S., Hurley P., Hwang H.S.,
Hyde A., Ibar E., Ilbert O., Isaak K., Ivison R.J., Lagache G.,
Le Floc'h E., Levenson L., Faro B.L., Lu N., Madden S., Maffei B.,
Magdis G., Mainetti G., Marchetti L., Marsden G., Marshall J.,
Mortier A.M.J., Nguyen H.T., O'Halloran B., Omont A., Page M.J.,
Panuzzo P., Papageorgiou A., Patel H., Pearson C.P., Perez-Fournon I.,
Pohlen M., Rawlings J.I., Raymond G., Rigopoulou D., Riguccini L.,
Rizzo D., Rodighiero G., Roseboom I.G., Rowan-Robinson M.,
Sanchez Portal M., Schulz B., Scott D., Seymour N., Shupe D.L.,
Smith A.J., Stevens J.A., Symeonidis M., Trichas M., Tugwell K.E.,
Vaccari M., Valtchanov I., Vieira J.D., Viero M., Vigroux L., Wang L.,
Ward R., Wardlow J., Wright G., Xu C.K., Zemcov M.
<Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 424, 1614-1635 (2012)>
=2012MNRAS.424.1614O 2012MNRAS.424.1614O
+2012MNRAS.419..377S 2012MNRAS.419..377S
=2014yCat.8095....0O 2014yCat.8095....0O
ADC_Keywords: Surveys ; Galaxies, IR ; Photometry, millimetric/submm
Mission_Name: Herschel
Keywords: surveys - galaxies: evolution - infrared: galaxies -
submillimetre: galaxies
Abstract:
The Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES) is a legacy
programme designed to map a set of nested fields totalling ∼380deg2.
Fields range in size from 0.01 to ∼20deg2, using the
Herschel-Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) (at 250,
350 and 500um) and the Herschel-Photodetector Array Camera and
Spectrometer (PACS) (at 100 and 160um), with an additional wider
component of 270deg2 with SPIRE alone. These bands cover the peak of
the redshifted thermal spectral energy distribution from interstellar
dust and thus capture the reprocessed optical and ultraviolet
radiation from star formation that has been absorbed by dust, and are
critical for forming a complete multiwavelength understanding of
galaxy formation and evolution.
Description:
The observations described here have been taken as part of the
Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES; Oliver et al.,
2012MNRAS.424.1614O 2012MNRAS.424.1614O) under the programme KPGT_soliver 1 whose main
objective was to chart the formation and evolution of infrared
galaxies throughout cosmic history, measuring the bolometric emission
of infrared galaxies and their clustering properties. The catalogues
extracted from these maps include over 1,200,000 entries representing
over 340,000 galaxies.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
merge.dat 330 340968 Merged catalog
sx250.dat 256 288754 *SUSSEXtractor 250um catalog
sx350.dat 256 177487 *SUSSEXtractor 350um catalog
sx500.dat 256 79860 *SUSSEXtractor 500um catalog
sf250.dat 177 340968 Starfinder 250um catalogue
sf350.dat 177 240936 Starfinder 350um catalogue
sf500.dat 177 84013 Starfinder 500um catalogue
img.dat 156 57 Summary of the FITS images
img/* . 57 FITS images of all the fields
fits/* . 239 FITS catalogs of all the fields
xml/* . 203 VOTable Catalogs of all the fields
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Note on sx*.dat: 2HERMES names like SNNN SX JHHMMSS.s+DDNNNSS or
SNNN SX JHHMMSS.s+DDNNNNSS are erroneous (CDS note).
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See also:
http://hedam.lam.fr/HerMES/ : HerMES Home Page
Byte-by-byte Description of file: merge.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 22 A22 --- Field Field designation
24- 40 A17 --- --- [2HERMES S250 SF D]
42- 57 A16 --- 2HERMES HerMES ID, JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS (G1)
61- 69 F9.5 deg RAdeg Right Ascension (J2000)
71- 79 F9.5 deg DEdeg Declination (J2000)
81- 96 E16.11 mJy F250 Herschel/SPIRE flux density at 250um
98-113 E16.11 mJy e_F250 Instrumental error in flux 250um density
115-130 E16.11 mJy F350 Herschel/SPIRE flux density at 350um
132-147 E16.11 mJy e_F350 Instrumental error in flux 350um density
149-164 E16.11 mJy F500 Herschel/SPIRE flux density at 500um
166-181 E16.11 mJy e_F500 Instrumental error in flux 500um density
183-198 E16.11 mJy E_F250 Total error (instrumental + confusion)
in 250um flux density
200-215 E16.11 --- chi250 Local reduced χ2 statistic of 250um
photometry fit in 11x11 pixel window
217-232 E16.11 mJy E_F350 Total error (instrumental + confusion)
in 350um flux density
234-249 E16.11 --- chi350 Local reduced χ2 statistic of 350um
photometry fit in 11x11 pixel window
251-266 E16.11 mJy E_F500 Total error (instrumental + confusion)
in 500um flux density
268-283 E16.11 --- chi500 Local reduced χ2 statistic of 500um
photometry fit in 11x11 pixel window
285-290 I6 --- gID ID of the segment where the source is
292-295 I4 --- Ng Number of sources in the segment gid
297-304 F8.5 mJy bg250 Background subtracted from 250um map (G2)
306-313 F8.5 mJy bg350 Background subtracted from 350um map (G2)
315-322 F8.5 mJy bg500 Background subtracted from 550um map (G2)
324-330 A7 --- Com Comment
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: sf???.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 22 A22 --- Field Field designation
24- 32 A9 --- --- [2HERMES S]
33- 35 I3 um lam Herschel filter (250, 300 or 500)
37- 40 A4 --- --- [SF D]
42- 57 A16 --- 2HERMES HerMES ID, JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS (G1)
61- 69 F9.5 deg RAdeg Right ascension (J2000)
71- 79 F9.5 deg DEdeg Declination (J2000)
81- 96 E16.11 mJy Flux Source flux density
98-113 E16.11 mJy e_Flux Source flux density formal uncertainty
(instrumental noise)
115-130 E16.11 mJy E_Flux Total uncertainty in the source flux density,
due to confusion and instrumental noise
132-147 E16.11 --- chi2 Local reduced χ2 statistic of photometry
fit in 11x11 pixel window
149-154 I6 --- gID ID of the segment where the source is
156-159 I4 --- Ng Number of sources in the segment gid
161-169 F9.6 mJy bg Background subtracted from map in observed
band (mJy/beam) (G2)
171-177 A7 --- Com Comments
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: sx???.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 22 A22 --- Field Field designation
24- 32 A9 --- --- [2HERMES S]
33- 35 I3 um lam Herschel filter (250, 300 or 500)
37- 40 A4 --- --- [SX D]
42- 59 A18 --- 2HERMES HerMES ID, JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS,
or JHHMMSS.s+DDNNNSS or JHHMMSS.s+DDNNNNSS (G1)
61- 69 F9.5 deg RAdeg Right ascension (J2000)
71- 79 F9.5 deg DEdeg Declination (J2000)
81- 90 F10.5 mJy Flux Source flux density
92-100 F9.5 mJy e_Flux Source flux density formal uncertainty
(instrumental noise)
102-113 F12.5 --- S/N Signal to instrumental noise: Flux/e_Flux
115-123 F9.5 deg e_RAdeg Right ascension uncertainty
125-133 F9.5 deg e_DEdeg Declination uncertainty
135-143 F9.5 mJy E_Flux ?=-99.99999 Total uncertainty in the source flux
density, due to confusion and instrumental noise
145-154 F10.5 --- SNR ?=-99.999 Signal to total noise: Flux/E_Flux
156-177 E22.15 mJy F1 ?=1E+20 Source flux density, as measured using
a map based on the first half of the data
178-200 E23.15 --- SN1 ?=1E+20 Signal to instrumental noise, as
measured using a map based on the first half
of the data
202-223 E22.15 mJy F2 ?=1E+20 Source flux density, as measured using
a map based on the second half of the data
224-246 E23.15 --- SN2 ?=1E+20 Signal to instrumental noise, as
measured using a map based on the second half
of the data
248 A1 --- fc [1T] source lies within a well-defined central
region of the map
250-256 A7 --- Com Comment
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: img.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 17 A17 --- Field Field designation
19- 27 F9.5 deg RAdeg Right Ascension of center (J2000)
28- 36 F9.5 deg DEdeg Declination of center (J2000)
38- 42 F5.2 arcsec/pix Scale Scale of the image
44- 47 I4 pix Nx Number of pixels along X-axis
48 A1 --- --- [x]
49- 52 I4 pix Ny Number of pixels along Y-axis
54- 56 I3 um lam Wavelength (250, 350 or 500)
58-108 A51 --- FileName Name of FITS file in subdirectory img
109-156 A48 --- Title Title and comments
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Global Notes:
Note (G1): HerMes identifiers are <2HERMES SNNN AA D JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS>, where:
* NNN is the Herschel filter (250, 350 or 500)
* AA is "SF" for StarFinder, "SX" for SUSSEXtractor,
and "SP" for the merged catalog.
* D is identify a source found on a deep map where a shallow map
is also available (nested fields, L1-ECDFS, L3-Groth-Strip,
L3-Lockman-East-ROSAT, L4-UDS and L4-VVDS) nothing otherwise
* JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS is the truncated J2000 position (of the 250um source
for the merged catalogues)
* For sx250.dat, sx350.dat and sx500.dat, 2HERMES names like
SNNN SX JHHMMSS.s+DDNNNSS or SNNN SX JHHMMSS.s+DDNNNNSS are erroneous.
(CDS note)
Note (G2): Background subtracted 250, 350, 500um maps (mJy/beam)
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Region 250um 350um 500um
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Abell 1689 -2.992838 -3.882051 -3.625063
Abell 2218 -3.842219 -4.793899 -4.427385
MS0451.6-0305 -2.457927 -3.325856 -3.349244
MS1054.4-0321 -2.403948 -3.384200 -2.526010
RXJ0152.7-1357 -2.445642 -3.672360 -2.905817
Abell 1835 -2.677190 -3.444009 -3.016452
Abell 2219 -2.784788 -3.446285 -2.944812
Abell 2390 -4.198272 -5.410602 -4.847107
Abell 370 -2.938358 -4.290618 -3.703924
Cl0024+16 -2.588148 -3.307764 -3.010474
MS1358+62 -2.803877 -3.713894 -3.445110
RXJ13475-1145 -2.434233 -2.887766 -2.353963
ECDFS -2.376153 -3.441775 -2.813922
COSMOS -2.773473 -3.747690 -3.279235
GOODS North -2.923722 -3.938112 -3.322251
Groth Strip -1.846280 -2.700535 -2.210331
Lockman East ROSAT -1.676664 -2.450527 -1.828034
Lockman North -1.676664 -2.450527 -1.828034
UDS -1.708485 -2.431207 -1.884272
VVDS -1.708485 -2.431207 -1.884272
Bootes HerMES -2.004325 -2.853428 -2.256987
CDFS SWIRE -2.416153 -3.490635 -2.861303
EGS HerMES -1.679596 -2.511203 -1.923709
ELAIS N1 HerMES -2.207341 -3.083944 -2.378375
Lockman SWIRE -1.703802 -2.441558 -1.854351
ADFS -1.492433 -2.054412 -1.406900
ELAIS S1 SWIRE -1.429953 -2.091187 -1.447209
FLS -1.590289 -2.309712 -1.607886
XMM LSS SWIRE -1.454805 -2.113369 -1.461253
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History:
Copied at http://hedam.lam.fr/HerMES/
(End) Patricia Vannier [CDS] 19-Feb-2014