Published 2008
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Book Section - Chapter
The Cosmic Evolution Survey - COSMOS
- Creators
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Scoville, Nick
Abstract
The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) is designed to probe the correlated evolution of galaxies, star formation, active galactic nuclei (AGN) and dark matter (DM) with large-scale structure (LSS) over the redshift range z >0.5 to 3. The survey includes multi-wavelength imaging and spectroscopy from X-ray to radio wavelengths covering a 2 square degree area, including HST imaging of the entire field. Given the very high sensitivity and resolution of these datasets, COSMOS will also provide unprecedented samples of objects at z >3. Here I provide a brief overview of the survey strategy, the characteristics of the major COSMOS datasets, and summarize the science goals.
Additional Information
© 2008 Springer. First, it is pleasure to acknowledgement the wonderful planning of the LOC and SOC which has made this meeting possible; and secondly it is a profound pleasure to acknowledge the enormous and diverse contributions of Professor Sofue to our understanding of galactic structure and evolution. The major COSMOS datasets become publicly available in staged releases (following calibration and validation) through the web site for IPAC/IRSA: http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/COSMOS/ I gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the entire COSMOS collaboration consisting of more than 70 scientists. The HST COSMOS Treasury program was supported through NASA grant HST-GO-09822.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 19418
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-0-387-72768-4_39
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20100812-150513628
- HST-GO-09822
- NASA
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2010-08-13Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2023-06-02Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), COSMOS
- Series Name
- Astrophysics and space science proceedings