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Details - VIPERS - VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey

Title VIPERS - VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey
Version 1
Data Provider/P.I. Luigi Guzzo
Data Collection VIPERS
Data Release DR1
Submission Date 2016-12-07
Publication Date 2016-12-15
Description VIPERS is the largest galaxy redshift survey conducted at ESO to date. This final redshift catalogue includes 91507 spectroscopic measurements, of which 86775 are galaxies, distributed over two equatorial areas of sky centered around RA=2 (W1 CFHTLS field) and RA=22 (W4 CFHTLS field). The data provide a sampling of galaxies and large scale structure at 0.5 < z < 1.2
Please refer to the full data release description for further information.
Telescope ESO-VLT-U3
Instrument VIMOS
Technique of Observation MOS
Start of Observations 54,776.189 (2008-11-06T17:33:07)
End of Observations 57,007.114 (2014-12-16T15:45:07)
Filter Set/bands
Sky Solid Angle 23.5
Number of Records 91507
Number of Columns 17
Reference 2014A&A...566A.108G
Acknowledgment Policy Please include the following acknowledgment in any published material that makes use of this data product: Based on data obtained from the ESO Science Archive Facility with DOI: https://doi.org/10.18727/archive/62
Position Name Description Data Type Data Size UCD Physical Unit
1 id_IAU VIPERS object name, according to IAU standards STRING 16 meta.id;meta.main
2 num Internal id number STRING 9 meta.id
3 alpha J2000 Right Ascension DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.ra;meta.main deg
4 delta J2000 Declination DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.dec;meta.main deg
5 selmag i_AB selection magnitude FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.opt.I mag
6 errselmag i_AB selection magnitude error FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.opt.I mag
7 pointing VIPERS pointing STRING 6 meta.id;obs.sequence
8 quadrant VIMOS quadrant INT32 1 meta.id;instr.det
9 zspec Spectroscopic redshift FLOAT 1 src.redshift;meta.main
10 zflg Spectroscopic redshift quality flag FLOAT 1 meta.code.qual;src.redshift
11 norm Normalization factor FLOAT 1 arith.factor;phot.flux
12 epoch Observing epoch INT32 1 time.epoch
13 photoMask Flag indicating whether the object falls within the photometric mask INT32 1 meta.code
14 tsr The Target Sampling Rate FLOAT 1 arith.rate
15 ssr The Spectroscopic Success Rate FLOAT 1 arith.rate
16 classFlag Selection flag INT32 1 meta.code.class
17 FILENAME FITS file name of the original spectrum STRING 21 meta.ref