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Published December 2007 | Published
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A 12 μm ISOCAM survey of the ESO-Sculptor field

Abstract

We present a detailed reduction of a mid-infrared 12 μm (LW10 filter) ISOCAM open time observation performed on the ESOSculptor Survey field (Arnouts et al. 1997, A&AS, 124, 163). A complete catalogue of 142 sources (120 galaxies and 22 stars), detected with high significance (equivalent to 5σ), is presented above an integrated flux density of 0.24 mJy. Star/galaxy separation is performed by a detailed study of colour-colour diagrams. The catalogue is complete to 1 mJy and, below this flux density, the incompleteness is corrected using two independent methods. The first method uses stars and the second uses optical counterparts of the ISOCAM galaxies; these methods yield consistent results. We also apply an empirical flux density calibration using stars in the field. For each star, the 12 μm flux density is derived by fitting optical colours from a multi-band χ^2 to stellar templates (BaSel-2.0) and using empirical optical-IR colour-colour relations. This article is a companion analysis to our 2007 paper (Rocca-Volmerange et al. 2007, A&A, 475, 801) where the 12 μm faint galaxy counts are presented and analysed per galaxy type with the evolutionary code PÉGASE.3.

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© ESO 2007. Received 16 March 2006. Accepted 24 May 2007. We thank the referee for the many constructive comments improving the quality of this paper. We give thanks to René Gastaud, Jean-Luc Starck, David Elbaz (SAp/CEA), Carlos del Burgo (Heidelberg), and Emmanuel Bertin (IAP). We are also grateful to Damien Le Borgne (CEA) for aiding us in the use of his software. We thank Hervé Aussel for useful discussions. Part of this work (N.S.) was supported by the Probing the Origin of the Extragalactic background (POE), European Network number HPRN-CT-2000-00138. This publication makes use of data products from the Two Micron All Sky Survey, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. Additionally this research uses the USNOFS Image and Catalogue Archive operated by the United States Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station (http://www.nofs.navy.mil/data/fchpix/).We also thank Gary Mamon for kind permission to use data from the DENIS survey. The DENIS project has been partly funded by the SCIENCE and the HCM plans of the European Commission under grants CT920791 and CT940627. It is supported by INSU, MEN, and CNRS in France, by the State of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, by DGICYT in Spain, by CNR in Italy, by FFwFBWF in Austria, by FAPESP in Brazil, by OTKA grants F-4239 and F-013990 in Hungary, and by the ESO C&EE grant A-04-046. The ISOCAM data presented in this paper were analysed using "CIA", a joint development by the ESA Astrophysics Division and the ISOCAM Consortium. The ISOCAM Consortium was led by the ISOCAM PI, C. Cesarsky.

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