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2004ApJS..154...54L - Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 154, 54-59 (2004/September-0)

First insights into the Spitzer Wide-Area Infrared Extragalactic legacy survey (SWIRE) galaxy populations.

LONSDALE C., POLLETTA M.D.C., SURACE J., SHUPE D., FANG F., XU C.K., SMITH H.E., SIANA B., ROWAN-ROBINSON M., BABBEDGE T., OLIVER S., POZZI F., DAVOODI P., OWEN F., PADGETT D., FRAYER D., JARRETT T., MASCI F., O'LINGER J., CONROW T., FARRAH D., MORRISON G., GAUTIER N., FRANCESCHINI A., BERTA S., PEREZ-FOURNON I., HATZIMINAOGLOU E., AFONSO-LUIS A., DOLE H., STACEY G., SERJEANT S., PIERRE M., GRIFFIN M. and PUETTER R.

Abstract (from CDS):

We characterize the Spitzer Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic Legacy Survey (SWIRE) galaxy populations in the SWIRE validation field within the Lockman Hole, based on the 3.6-24 µm Spitzer data and deep U, g', r', i' optical imaging within an area ∼1/3 deg2 for ∼16,000 Spitzer SWIRE sources. The entire SWIRE survey will discover over 2.3 million galaxies at 3.6 µm and almost 350,000 at 24 µm; ∼70,000 of these will be five-band 3.6-24 µm detections. The colors cover a broad range, generally well represented by redshifted spectral energy distributions of known galaxy populations; however, significant samples of unusually blue objects in the [3.6]-[4.5] color are found, as well as many objects very red in the 3.6-24 µm mid-IR. Nine of these are investigated and are interpreted as star-forming systems, starbursts, and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from z=0.37 to 2.8, with luminosities from LIR=1010.3 to 1013.7 L☉.

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Journal keyword(s): Galaxies: Evolution - Infrared: Galaxies

Nomenclature: Table 2: SWIRE JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS N=9

Simbad objects: 10

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