We present the first set of maps and band-merged catalog from the Herschel Stripe 82 Survey (HerS). Observations at 250, 350, and 500 micron were taken with the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) instrument aboard the Herschel Space Observatory. HerS covers 79 deg2 along the SDSS Stripe 82 to a depth of 13.0, 12.9, and 14.8 mJy beam−1 (including confusion) at 250, 350, and 500 micron, respectively. HerS was designed to measure correlations with external tracers of the dark matter density field --- either point-like (i.e., galaxies selected from radio to X-ray) or extended (i.e., clusters and gravitational lensing) --- in order to measure the bias and redshift distribution of intensities of infrared-emitting dusty star-forming galaxies and AGN. By locating HeRS in Stripe 82, we maximize the overlap with available and upcoming cosmological surveys. The band-merged catalog contains 3.3x104 sources detected at a significance of >3 σ (including confusion noise). The maps and catalog are available at http://www.astro.caltech.edu/hers/
@article{arxiv.1308.4399,
title = {The Herschel Stripe 82 Survey (HerS): Maps and Early Catalog},
author = {M. P. Viero and V. Asboth and I. G. Roseboom and L. Moncelsi and G. Marsden and E. Mentuch Cooper and M. Zemcov and G. Addison and A. J. Baker and A. Beelen and J. Bock and C. Bridge and A. Conley and M. J. Devlin and O. Doré and D. Farrah and S. Finkelstein and A. Font-Ribera and J. E. Geach and K. Gebhardt and A. Gill and J. Glenn and A. Hajian and M. Halpern and S. Jogee and P. Kurczynski and A. Lapi and M. Negrello and S. J. Oliver and C. Papovich and R. Quadri and N. Ross and D. Scott and B. Schulz and R. Somerville and D. N. Spergel and J. D. Vieira and L. Wang and R. Wechsler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.4399},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Accepted to ApJS. 11 Pages, 7 figures. Data available at http://www.astro.caltech.edu/hers/