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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29654
Title: A WFC3 Grism Emission Line Redshift Catalog in the GOODS-South Field
Authors: Morris, Aaron M.
Kocevski, Dale D.
Trump, Jonathan R.
Weiner, Benjamin J.
Hathi, Nimish P.
Barro, Guillermo
Dahlen, Tomas
Faber, Sandra M.
Finkelstein, Steven L.
FONTANA, Adriano 
Ferguson, Henry C.
Grogin, Norman A.
Grützbauch, Ruth
Guo, Yicheng
Hsu, Li-Ting
Koekemoer, Anton M.
Koo, David C.
Mobasher, Bahram
Pforr, Janine
Salvato, Mara
Wiklind, Tommy
Wuyts, Stijn
Issue Date: 2015
Journal: THE ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 
Number: 149
Issue: 6
First Page: 178
Abstract: We combine Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Wide Field Camera3 (WFC3) imaging and G141 grism observations from the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) and 3D-HST surveys to produce a catalog of grism spectroscopic redshifts for galaxies in the CANDELS/GOODS-South field. The WFC3/G141 grism spectra cover a wavelength range of 1.1≤slant λ ≤slant 1.7 μm with a resolving power of R̃ 130 for point sources, thus providing rest-frame optical spectra for galaxies out to z̃ 3.5. The catalog is selected in the H-band (F160W) and includes both galaxies with and without previously published spectroscopic redshifts. Grism spectra are extracted for all H-band detected galaxies with H ≤slant 24 and a CANDELS photometric redshift {{z}<SUB>phot</SUB>}≥slant 0.6. The resulting spectra are visually inspected to identify emission lines, and redshifts are determined using cross-correlation with empirical spectral templates. To establish the accuracy of our redshifts, we compare our results against high-quality spectroscopic redshifts from the literature. Using a sample of 411 control galaxies, this analysis yields a precision of {{σ }<SUB>NMAD</SUB>}=0.0028 for the grism-derived redshifts, which is consistent with the accuracy reported by the 3D-HST team. Our final catalog covers an area of 153 arcmin<SUP>2</SUP> and contains 1019 redshifts for galaxies in GOODS-S. Roughly 60% (608/1019) of these redshifts are for galaxies with no previously published spectroscopic redshift. These new redshifts span a range of 0.677≤slant z≤slant 3.456 and have a median redshift of z = 1.282. The catalog contains a total of 234 new redshifts for galaxies at z\gt 1.5. In addition, we present 20 galaxy pair candidates identified for the first time using the grism redshifts in our catalog, including four new galaxy pairs at z̃ 2, nearly doubling the number of such pairs previously identified.
Acknowledgments: This work is based on observations taken by the CANDELS Multi-Cycle Treasury Program (GO 12177) and the 3D- HST Treasury Program (GO 12328) with the NASA/ESA HST , which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555 and by Spitzer , which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under a contract with NASA. We also acknowledge partial support from NSF 0808133 and HST -AR 12822.03A.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29654
URL: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/149/6/178
ISSN: 0004-6256
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/149/6/178
Bibcode ADS: 2015AJ....149..178M
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