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Spitzer Observations of the North Ecliptic Pole

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2018-02-21 v1

Abstract

We present a photometric catalog for Spitzer Space Telescope warm mission observations of the North Ecliptic Pole (NEP; centered at R.A.=18h00m00s\rm R.A.=18^h00^m00^s, Decl.=66d33m38s.552\rm Decl.=66^d33^m38^s.552). The observations are conducted with IRAC in 3.6 μ\mum and 4.5 μ\mum bands over an area of 7.04 deg2^2 reaching 1σ\sigma depths of 1.29 μ\muJy and 0.79 μ\muJy in the 3.6 μ\mum and 4.5 μ\mum bands respectively. The photometric catalog contains 380,858 sources with 3.6 μ\mum and 4.5 μ\mum band photometry over the full-depth NEP mosaic. Point source completeness simulations show that the catalog is 80% complete down to 19.7 AB. The accompanying catalog can be utilized in constraining the physical properties of extra-galactic objects, studying the AGN population, measuring the infrared colors of stellar objects, and studying the extra-galactic infrared background light.

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@article{arxiv.1712.01290,
  title  = {Spitzer Observations of the North Ecliptic Pole},
  author = {H. Nayyeri and N. Ghotbi and A. Cooray and J. Bock and D. L. Clements and M. Im and M. G. Kim and P. Korngut and A. Lanz and H. M. Lee and D. H. Lee and M. Malkan and H. Matsuhara and T. Matsumoto and S. Matsuura and U. W. Nam and C. Pearson and S. Serjeant and J. Smidt and K. Tsumura and T. Wada and M. Zemcov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.01290},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

10 pages, 11 figures and 3 tables. Accepted to the ApJS

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