The Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS): Survey Definition and Goals*

• DOI: 10.1086/666945
• Publication Date: 2012-08-08T18:43:56Z
• Authors: J.-C. Mauduit; M. Lacy; D. Farrah; J. A. Surace; M. Jarvis; S. Oliver; C. Maraston; M. Vaccari; L. Marchetti; G. Zeimann; E. A. Gonzáles-So...; J. Pforr; A. O. Petric; B. Henriques; P. A. Thomas; J. Afonso; A. Rettura; G. Wilson; J. T. Falder; J. E. Geach; M. Huynh; R. P. Norris; N. Seymour; G. T. Richards; S. A. Stanford; D. M. Alexander; R. H. Becker; P. N. Best; L. Bizzocchi; D. Bonfield; N. Castro; A. Cava; S. Chapman; N. Christopher; D. L. Clements; G. Covone; N. Dubois; J. S. Dunlop; E. Dyke; A. Edge; H. C. Ferguson; S. Foucaud; A. Franceschini; R. R. Gal; J. K. Grant; M. Grossi; E. Hatziminaoglou; S. Hickey; J. A. Hodge; J.-S. Huang; R. J. Ivison; M. Kim; O. LeFevre; M. Lehnert; C. J. Lonsdale; L. M. Lubin; R. J. McLure; H. Messias; A. Martínez-Sansigre; A. M. J. Mortier; D. M. Nielsen; M. Ouchi; G. Parish; I. Perez-Fournon; M. Pierre; S. Rawlings; A. Readhead; S. E. Ridgway; D. Rigopoulou; A. K. Romer; I. G. Rosebloom; H. J. A. Rottgering; M. Rowan-Robinson; A. Sajina; C. J. Simpson; I. Smail; G. K. Squires; J. A. Stevens; R. Taylor; M. Trichas; T. Urrutia; E. van Kampen; A. Verma; C. K. Xu
• Keywords: Spitzer Space Telescope

We present the Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS), an 18 deg2 medium-deep survey at 3.6 and 4.5 μm with postcryogenic Space Telescope to ≈2 μJy (AB = 23.1) depth of five highly observed astronomical fields (ELAIS-N1, ELAIS-S1, Lockman Hole, Chandra Deep Field South, XMM-LSS). SERVS is designed enable study galaxy evolution as a function environment from z ∼ 5 day first extragalactic that both large enough deep put rare objects such luminous quasars clusters ≳ 1 into their cosmological context. overlap several key surveys optical, near- through far-infrared, submillimeter, radio wavelengths provide unprecedented view formation massive galaxies. In this article, we discuss design, data processing flow image reduction mosaicking catalogs, coverage ancillary other in fields. also highlight variety early science results survey.