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Published March 2016 | Submitted + Published
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The Spitzer-IRAC/MIPS Extragalactic survey (SIMES) in the South Ecliptic Pole field

Abstract

We present the Spitzer-IRAC/MIPS Extragalactic survey (SIMES) in the South Ecliptic Pole field. The large area covered (7.7 deg^2), together with one of the lowest Galactic cirrus emissions in the entire sky and a very extensive coverage by Spitzer, Herschel, Akari, and GALEX, make the SIMES field ideal for extragalactic studies. The elongated geometry of the SIMES area (≈4:1), allowing for significant cosmic variance reduction, further improves the quality of statistical studies in this field. Here we present the reduction and photometric measurements of the Spitzer/IRAC data. The survey reaches depths of 1.93 and 1.75 μJy (1σ) at 3.6 and 4.5 μm, respectively. We discuss the multiwavelength IRAC-based catalog, completed with optical, mid-, and far-IR observations. We detect 341,000 sources with F_(3.6µm) ⩾3σ. Of these, 10% have an associated 24 μm counterpart, while 2.7% have an associated SPIRE source. We release the catalog through the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive. Two scientific applications of these IRAC data are presented in this paper. First, we compute integral number counts at 3.6 μm. Second, we use the [3.6]–[4.5] color index to identify galaxy clusters at z > 1.3. We select 27 clusters in the full area, a result consistent with previous studies at similar depth.

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© 2016 The American Astronomical Society. Received 2015 September 18; accepted 2016 January 2; published 2016 March 7. We thank the referee for the useful comments that improved the presentation of the paper. I.B. and G.R. acknowledge support from ASI (Herschel Science Contract 2011aI/005/ 011/0). C.S. and I.B. acknowledge support from NASA JPL/ Spitzer grant RSA 1449911, provided for the SIMES project. S.M. acknowledges financial support from the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), of which she is senior member. M.V. acknowledges support from the European Commission Research Executive Agency (FP7-SPACE-2013-1 GA 607254) and the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (PGR GA ZA14GR02). This research has made use of data from the HerMES project (http://hermes. sussex.ac.uk/). HerMES is a Herschel Key Program using Guaranteed Time from the SPIRE instrument team, ESAC scientists, and a mission scientist. The HerMES data were accessed through the Herschel Database in Marseille (HeDaM —http://hedam.lam.fr), operated by CeSAM and hosted by the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. M.V. acknowledges support from the European Commission Research Executive Agency (FP7-SPACE-2013-1 GA 607254) and the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (PGR GA ZA14GR02).

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