Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS): First Data Release Covering The D10 (COSMOS) Region
Abstract
The Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS) is a deep, high-completeness multi-wavelength survey based around spectroscopic observations using the Anglo-Australian Telescope's AAOmega spectrograph. The survey covers deg over three extragalactic fields to Ymag and probes sources at , with a median redshift of . Here we describe the DEVILS spectroscopic observations, data reduction and redshift analysis. We then describe and release to the community all DEVILS data in the 10h (D10, COSMOS) region including: i) catalogues of redshifts, photometry, SED fitting for physical properties, visual morphologies, structural decompositions and group environments/halo masses, ii) matched imaging in 28 bands from x-rays to radio continuum, and iii) reduced 1D spectra. All data are made publicly available through Data Central. Within D10 we obtain 5,442 new high-quality spectroscopic redshifts. When combined with existing, lower-quality, redshift information ( photometric redshifts) this is increased to 7,946. Of these, 3,122 have a spectroscopic redshift from another source (many that was not available at the time of the DEVILS observations). As such, DEVILS provides new unique high-quality spectroscopic redshifts for 4,824 faint sources in COSMOS. This increases the spectroscopic completeness at Y-mag21 from 50% in other samples to 90% in DEVILS. Finally, we show the power of this dataset by exploring the suppression of star formation in over-dense environments, split by morphology and stellar mass, and highlighting the ubiquitous nature of environmental quenching.
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@article{arxiv.2511.20999,
title = {Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS): First Data Release Covering The D10 (COSMOS) Region},
author = {L. J. M. Davies and M. Bravo and R. H. W. Cook and A. Hashemizadeh and J. E. Thorne and S. Bellstedt and S. P. Driver and A. S. G. Robotham and S. Koushan and N. Adams and S. Huynh and E. J. A. Mannering and J. Tocknell and M. J. I. Brown and J. Bland-Hawthorn and L. Cortese and B. Catinella and M. Meyer and S. Phillipps and M. Siudek and C. Wolf},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.20999},
year = {2025}
}
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31 pages, 19 figures