Spitzer Deep Wide-Field Survey Variability Catalog Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. SDWFS team
  2. Published by
    NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
Abstract
The Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey (SDWFS) is a four-epoch infrared survey of 10 square degrees in the Boötes field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey using the IRAC instrument on the Spitzer Space Telescope. SDWFS, a Spitzer Cycle 4 Legacy project, occupies a unique position in the area-depth survey space defined by other Spitzer surveys. The four epochs that make up SDWFS permit - for the first time - the selection of infrared-variable and high proper motion objects over a wide field on timescales of years. Because of its large survey volume, SDWFS is sensitive to galaxies out to z ~ 3 with relatively little impact from cosmic variance for all but the richest systems. The SDWFS data sets will thus be especially useful for characterizing galaxy evolution beyond z ~ 1.5.

The SDWFS Variability Catalog presents variability information for all SDWFS sources with a 5-sigma detection at 3.6 microns. For more details, see Kozlowski et al. (2010).
Keywords
  1. extragalactic survey
See also HTML
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/SPITZER/SDWFS/gator_docs/sdwfs_var_colDescriptions.html
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://irsa.ipac/Spitzer/Catalog/SDWFS/SDWFS-Var

Access

IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/SCS?table=sdwfs_var&
IVOA Table Access TAP
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/TAP
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
Web browser access HTML
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/Gator/nph-dd?catalog=sdwfs_var

History

2015-01-14T02:45:00Z
Resource record created
2010-12-15
update

Contact

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IRSA Support Team
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irsasupport@ipac.caltech.edu
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