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MUSUBI (MegaCam Ultra-deep Survey: u*-band Imaging) Data for the COSMOS and SXDS Fields

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  • 1. ROR icon Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica
  • 2. ROR icon Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • 3. ROR icon University of Geneva
  • 4. ROR icon National Taiwan Normal University
  • 5. ROR icon University of Tokyo
  • 6. ROR icon National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
  • 7. ROR icon Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
  • 8. ROR icon Jet Propulsion Lab
  • 9. ROR icon California Institute of Technology

Abstract

The Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Strategic Survey is the latest-generation multiband optical imaging survey for galaxy evolution and structure formation. The "Ultra-deep" component of the HSC survey provides grizy broadband images over ∼3.4 deg² to detection limits of ∼26–28 AB, along with narrowband images, in the COSMOS and SXDS fields. These images provide an unprecedented combination of depths and area coverage, for studies of galaxies up to z ∼ 7. However, the lack of coverage at z ≲ 3, which is critically needed for understanding the buildup of stellar mass in later cosmic time. We conducted a multiyear CFHT u*-band imaging campaign in the two HSC Ultra-deep fields with CFHT MegaCam. By including shallower archival data, we reached 5σ depths of u* = 28.1 and 28.4 (AB) at the centers of the COSMOS and SXDS fields, respectively, and u* = 27.7 and 27.8 in the central 1 deg2 fields. The image quality is ≳ 0.″90, fairly good for the u* band. Both the photometric and astrometric quality of our data are excellent. We show that the combination of our u*-band and HSC data can lead to high-quality photometric redshifts at z = 0–3, and robust measurements of rest-frame UV on galaxies at 0.4 z u*-band images and reference catalogs, which can be used readily for scientific studies.

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© 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Received 2022 February 24; revised 2022 May 12; accepted 2022 May 22; published 2022 June 30. We thank the referee for comments that greatly improved the article. We thank the CFHT staff for observational support, and in particular for making the legacy u* filter available to us when MegaCam was migrating to the new filter system. MegaCam is a joint project of the CFHT and CEA/DAPNIA, at the CFHT, which is operated by the National Research Council of Canada, Institut National des Science de l'Univers of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique of France, and the University of Hawaii. The observations at the CFHT were performed with care and respect from the summit of Maunakea, which is a significant cultural and historic site. We are most fortunate to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain. We gratefully acknowledge support from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan through grants 110-2112-M-001-006 (W.-H.W.), 108-2628-M-001-001-MY3 (L.L. and H.-Y.J.), and 110-2112-M-001-004 and 109-2112-M-001-005 (Y.-T.L.), and from Academia Sinica through Career Development Awards CDA-107-M03 (L.L. and H.-Y.J.) and CDA-106-M01 (Y.-T.L.). This work was conducted partially when W.-H.W. was visiting the CFHT as a resident astronomer. W.-H.W. is grateful for the hospitality of the CFHT ohana.

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MUSUBI (MegaCam Ultra-deep Survey: u∗-Band Imaging)-Data for the COSMOS and SXDS Fields

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115819
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11546 (URL)

Funding

Ministry of Science and Technology (Taipei)
10-2112-M-001-006
Ministry of Science and Technology (Taipei)
108-2628-M-001-001-MY3
Ministry of Science and Technology (Taipei)
110-2112-M-001-004
Ministry of Science and Technology (Taipei)
109-2112-M-001-005
Academia Sinica
CDA-107-M03
Academia Sinica
CDA-106-M01

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2022-07-27
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