Final Analysis of ELAIS 15 $\mu$m Observations : Method, Reduction and Catalogue
Abstract
We present the Final Analysis of the European Large Area ISO Survey (ELAIS) 15 m observations, carried out with the ISOCAM instrument on board the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). The data reduction method, known as LARI method, is based on a mathematical model of the detector's behaviour and was specifically designed for the detection of faint sources in ISO-CAM/PHOT data. The method is fully interactive and leads to very reliable and complete source lists. The resulting catalogue includes 1923 sources detected with in the {0.5 -- 100 mJy} flux range and over an area of 10.85 {deg} split into four fields, making it the largest non-serendipitous extragalactic source catalogue obtained to date from ISO data. This paper presents the concepts underlying the data reduction method together with its latest enhancements. The data reduction process, the production and basic properties of the resulting catalogue are discussed. The catalogue quality is assessed by means of detailed simulations, optical identifications and comparison with previous analyses.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0404315,
title = {Final Analysis of ELAIS 15 $\mu$m Observations : Method, Reduction and Catalogue},
author = {M. Vaccari and C. Lari and L. Angeretti and D. Fadda and C. Gruppioni and F. Pozzi and O. Prouton and H. Aussel and T. Babbedge and P. Ciliegi and A. Franceschini and E. Gonzalez-Solares and F. La Franca and S. Oliver and I. Perez-Fournon and M. Rowan-Robinson and S. Serjeant and P. Vaisanen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0404315},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Accepted by MNRAS. The quality of a few figures was degraded to allow submission to arXiv.org. Full resolution paper is available at http://astro.imperial.ac.uk/~vaccari/preprints/ Catalogues, Maps and Postage Stamps are available at http://astro.imperial.ac.uk/~vaccari/elais/