J/AJ/143/7ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/143/7doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.51430007CDSLake S.E.Wright E.L.Petty S.Assef R.J.Jarrett T.H.Stanford S.A.,Stern D.Tsai C.-W.2013-04-25T09:07:33Z2013-04-05T14:19:51ZCDS support team

CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France

cds-question@unistra.frWe report on the results of an optical spectroscopic survey at high Galactic latitude (|b|>=30{deg}) of a sample of WISE-selected targets, grouped by WISE W1 ({lambda}_eff_=3.4{mu}m) flux, which we use to characterize the sources WISE detected. We observed 762 targets in 10 disjoint fields centered on ultraluminous infrared galaxy candidates using DEIMOS on Keck II. We find 0.30+/-0.02 galaxies arcmin^-2^ with a median redshift of z=0.33+/-0.01 for the sample with W1>=120{mu}Jy. The foreground stellar densities in our survey range from 0.23+/-0.07arcmin^-2^ to 1.1+/-0.1arcmin^-2^ for the same sample. We obtained spectra that produced science grade redshifts for >=90% of our targets for sources with W1 flux >=120{mu}Jy that also had an i-band flux >=18{mu}Jy. We used this for targeting very preliminary data reductions available to the team in 2010 August. Our results therefore present a conservative estimate of what is possible to achieve using WISE's Preliminary Data Release for the study of field galaxies.2012AJ....143....7Lhttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/AJ/143/7CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toII/307 : WISE Preliminary Data Release (Cutri+ 2011)II/311 : WISE All-Sky Data Release (Cutri+ 2012)J/MNRAS/417/2230 : BVRI+SDSS+2MASS and WISE photometry of 289 starshttps://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/143/7https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/143/7http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/143/7https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/AJ/143/7https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/AJ/143/7http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/AJ/143/7GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/AJ/143/7/table5 (WISE-DEIMOS redshift catalog)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/143/7/table5?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/143/7/table5?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/143/7/table5?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true310.3196717-14.52561390.0055555555555555566/197 208 638 17461 18915 19444 23231 23274 36530 48938 48952 490405.3455714667354156e-20 6.513807192489934e-20https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/AJ/143/7?format=asciiOpticalInfrareddefaultJ/AJ/143/7/table5WISE-DEIMOS redshift catalogW1mag[13.531/18.38] WISE band 1 mag.(3.4um) (3)magphot.mag;em.IR.3-4umfloate_W1mag? Uncertainty in W1mag (1)magstat.error;phot.magfloatnullableRAJ2000Right Ascension (J2000)degpos.eq.ra;meta.mainrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintWISEPWISE Preliminary Release Catalog name, based on J2000 positionmeta.id;meta.maincharDEJ2000Declination (J2000)degpos.eq.dec;meta.mainzRedshiftsrc.redshiftdoublee_z? Uncertainty in z (1)stat.error;src.redshiftdoublenullableq_z[3/4] Quality code for z (2)meta.code.qual;src.redshiftintTempSpecPro template usedmeta.id;stat.fitchar