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Title: The 2.4 μm Galaxy Luminosity Function as Measured Using WISE . II. Sample Selection

Abstract

The WISE satellite surveyed the entire sky multiple times in four infrared (IR) wavelengths (3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 $$μ$$m). This all-sky IR photometric survey makes it possible to leverage many of the large publicly available spectroscopic redshift surveys to measure galaxy properties in the IR. While characterizing the cross-matching of WISE data to a single survey is a straightforward process, doing it with six different redshift surveys takes a fair amount of space to characterize adequately, because each survey has unique caveats and characteristics that need addressing. This work describes a data set that results from matching five public redshift surveys with the AllWISE data release, along with a reanalysis of the data described in Lake et al. The combined data set has an additional flux limit of 80 $$μ$$Jy (19.14 AB mag) in WISE's W1 filter, imposed in order to limit it to targets with high completeness and reliable photometry in the AllWISE data set. Consistent analysis of all of the data is only possible if the color bias discussed in Ilbert et al. is addressed (e.g., the techniques explored in Lake et al.). Finally, the sample defined herein is used in a companion paper in this series to measure the luminosity function of galaxies at 2.4 μm rest-frame wavelength, and the selection process of the sample is optimized for this purpose.

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ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4];  [5]; ORCiD logo [6]; ORCiD logo [7]
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  1. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. Diego Portales, Santiago (Chile)
  3. Univ. of Cape Town (South Africa)
  4. NorthWest Research Associates, Redmond, WA (United States)
  5. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  6. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), La Canada Flintridge, CA (United States). Jet Propulsion Lab.
  7. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), La Canada Flintridge, CA (United States). Jet Propulsion Lab.
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Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1545274
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
The Astrophysical Journal (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal (Online); Journal Volume: 866; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; catalogs; galaxies: statistics; surveys

Citation Formats

Lake, S. E., Wright, E. L., Assef, R. J., Jarrett, T. H., Petty, S., Stanford, S. A., Stern, D., and Tsai, C. -W. The 2.4 μm Galaxy Luminosity Function as Measured Using WISE . II. Sample Selection. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aae096.
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Lake, S. E., Wright, E. L., Assef, R. J., Jarrett, T. H., Petty, S., Stanford, S. A., Stern, D., & Tsai, C. -W. The 2.4 μm Galaxy Luminosity Function as Measured Using WISE . II. Sample Selection. United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aae096
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Lake, S. E., Wright, E. L., Assef, R. J., Jarrett, T. H., Petty, S., Stanford, S. A., Stern, D., and Tsai, C. -W. Wed . "The 2.4 μm Galaxy Luminosity Function as Measured Using WISE . II. Sample Selection". United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aae096. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1545274.
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@article{osti_1545274,
title = {The 2.4 μm Galaxy Luminosity Function as Measured Using WISE . II. Sample Selection},
author = {Lake, S. E. and Wright, E. L. and Assef, R. J. and Jarrett, T. H. and Petty, S. and Stanford, S. A. and Stern, D. and Tsai, C. -W.},
abstractNote = {The WISE satellite surveyed the entire sky multiple times in four infrared (IR) wavelengths (3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 $μ$m). This all-sky IR photometric survey makes it possible to leverage many of the large publicly available spectroscopic redshift surveys to measure galaxy properties in the IR. While characterizing the cross-matching of WISE data to a single survey is a straightforward process, doing it with six different redshift surveys takes a fair amount of space to characterize adequately, because each survey has unique caveats and characteristics that need addressing. This work describes a data set that results from matching five public redshift surveys with the AllWISE data release, along with a reanalysis of the data described in Lake et al. The combined data set has an additional flux limit of 80 $μ$Jy (19.14 AB mag) in WISE's W1 filter, imposed in order to limit it to targets with high completeness and reliable photometry in the AllWISE data set. Consistent analysis of all of the data is only possible if the color bias discussed in Ilbert et al. is addressed (e.g., the techniques explored in Lake et al.). Finally, the sample defined herein is used in a companion paper in this series to measure the luminosity function of galaxies at 2.4 μm rest-frame wavelength, and the selection process of the sample is optimized for this purpose.},
doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/aae096},
journal = {The Astrophysical Journal (Online)},
number = 1,
volume = 866,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Oct 10 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Wed Oct 10 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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