J/MNRAS/465/1831      SDSS-IV eBOSS ELG UgrizW photometry      (Delubac+, 2017)

The SDSS-IV eBOSS: emission line galaxy catalogues at z ~= 0.8 and study of systematic errors in the angular clustering. Delubac T., Raichoor A., Comparat J., Jouvel S., Kneib J.-P., Yeche C., Zou H., Brownstein J.R., Abdalla F.B., Dawson K., Jullo E., Myers A.D., Newman J.A., Percival W.J., Prada F., Ross A.J., Schneider D.P., Zhou X., Zhou Z., Zhu G. <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 465, 1831-1846 (2017)> =2017MNRAS.465.1831D 2017MNRAS.465.1831D (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Surveys ; Galaxy catalogs ; Photometry, SDSS ; Photometry, infrared Keywords: methods: data analysis - catalogues; galaxies - distances and redshifts - galaxies: general - galaxies: photometry - cosmology: observations Abstract: We present two wide-field catalogues of photometrically selected emission line galaxies (ELGs) at z~=0.8 covering about 2800deg2 over the south galactic cap. The catalogues were obtained using a Fisher discriminant technique described in a companion paper. The two catalogues differ by the imaging used to define the Fisher discriminant: the first catalogue includes imaging from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Wide-field InfraredSurvey Explorer, the second also includes information from the South Galactic Cap U-band Sky Survey. Containing respectively 560045 and 615601 objects, they represent the largest ELG catalogues available today and were designed for the ELG programme of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). We study potential sources of systematic variation in the angular distribution of the selected ELGs due to fluctuations of the observational parameters. We model the influence of the observational parameters using a multivariate regression and implement a weighting scheme which allows effective removal of all of the systematic errors induced by the observational parameters. We show that fluctuations in the imaging zero-points of the photometric bands have minor impact on the angular distribution of objects in our catalogues. We compute the angular clustering of both catalogues and show that our weighting procedure effectively removes spurious clustering on large scales. We fit a model to the small-scale angular clustering, showing that the selections have similar biases of 1.35/Da(z) and 1.28/Da(z). Both catalogues are publicly available. Description: The UgrizW and griW selections both use combined information from different photometric catalogues. The griW selection uses SDSS g, r and i bands as well as WISE infrared W1 information, while the UgrizW also includes SDSS z band as well as SCUSS U band. This section introduces the different photometric catalogues used as well as the algorithms defining the selections File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file griw.dat 221 2000795 eBOSS ELG griW catalog ugriw.dat 221 615601 eBOSS ELG UgriW catalog -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: J/A+A/592/A121 : SDSS-IV eBOSS emission-line galaxy pilot survey (Comparat+, 2016) Byte-by-byte Description of file: griw.dat ugriw.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 20 I20 --- objID SDSS objID 22- 31 F10.6 deg RAdeg Right ascension (J2000) 33- 42 F10.6 deg DEdeg Declination (J2000) 44- 50 F7.4 mag Umag ?=0 SCUSS U magnitude (SCUSS_modeladd) 52- 61 F10.4 mag umag ?=-9999 SDSS u magnitude (modelmag_u) 63- 69 F7.4 mag gmag SDSS g magnitude (modelmag_g) 71- 77 F7.4 mag rmag SDSS r magnitude (modelmag_r) 79- 85 F7.4 mag imag SDSS i magnitude (modelmag_i) 87- 93 F7.4 mag zmag SDSS z magnitude (modelmag_z) 95-101 F7.4 mag W1mag WISE W1 magnitude 103-109 F7.4 mag e_Umag ?=0 rms uncertainty on Umag 111-120 F10.4 mag e_umag ?=-9999 rms uncertainty on umag 122-127 F6.4 mag e_gmag rms uncertainty on gmag 129-134 F6.4 mag e_rmag rms uncertainty on rmag 136-141 F6.4 mag e_imag rms uncertainty on imag 143-149 F7.4 mag e_zmag rms uncertainty on zmag 151-156 F6.4 mag e_W1mag rms uncertainty on W1mag 158-165 F8.6 mag Extu Extinction in u band 167-174 F8.6 mag Extg Extinction in g band 176-183 F8.6 mag Extr Extinction in r band 185-192 F8.6 mag Exti Extinction in i band 194-201 F8.6 mag Extz Extinction in z band 203-210 F8.6 mag ExtW1 Extinction in W1 band 212-219 F8.6 --- Weight Weight 221 I1 --- Mask [0/1] Mask -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: Copied at https://data.sdss.org/sas/dr13/eboss/target/elg/fisher-selection
(End) Patricia Vannier [CDS] 04-Sep-2018
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