THE PRISM MULTI-OBJECT SURVEY (PRIMUS). I. SURVEY OVERVIEW AND CHARACTERISTICS
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- 10 October 2011
- journal article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 741 (1)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/741/1/8
Abstract
We present the PRIsm MUlti-object Survey (PRIMUS), a spectroscopic faint galaxy redshift survey to z~1. PRIMUS uses a low-dispersion prism and slitmasks to observe ~2,500 objects at once in a 0.18 deg^2 field of view, using the IMACS camera on the Magellan I Baade 6.5m telescope at Las Campanas Observatory. PRIMUS covers a total of 9.1 deg^2 of sky to a depth of i_AB~23 in seven different deep, multi-wavelength fields that have coverage from GALEX, Spitzer and either XMM or Chandra, as well as multiple-band optical and near-IR coverage. PRIMUS includes ~120,000 robust redshifts of unique objects with a redshift precision of dz/(1+z)~0.005. The redshift distribution peaks at z=0.56 and extends to z=1.2 for galaxies and z=5 for broad-line AGN. The motivation, observational techniques, fields, target selection, slitmask design, and observations are presented here, with a brief summary of the redshift precision; a companion paper presents the data reduction, redshift fitting, redshift confidence, and survey completeness. PRIMUS is the largest faint galaxy survey undertaken to date. The high targeting fraction (~80%) and large survey size will allow for precise measures of galaxy properties and large-scale structure to z~1.Keywords
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