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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'We present results from the largest contiguous narrow-band survey in the
near-infrared. We have used the wide-field infrared camera/Canada–France–Hawaii
Telescope and the lowOH2 filter (1.187 ± 0.005 μm) to survey ≈10 deg2 of contiguous
extragalactic sky in the SA22 field. A total of ∼6000 candidate emission-line
galaxies are found. We use deep ugrizJK data to obtain robust photometric redshifts.
We combine our data with the High-redshift(Z) Emission Line Survey (HiZELS), explore
spectroscopic surveys (VVDS, VIPERS) and obtain our own spectroscopic follow-up
with KMOS, FMOS and MOSFIRE to derive large samples of high-redshift emission-line
selected galaxies: 3471 Hα emitters at z = 0.8, 1343 [O III] + Hβ emitters at
z = 1.4 and 572 [O II] emitters at z = 2.2. We probe comoving volumes of >106
Mpc3 and find significant overdensities, including an 8.5σ (spectroscopically
confirmed) overdensity of Hα emitters at z = 0.81. We derive Hα, [O III] + Hβ
and [O II] luminosity functions at z = 0.8, 1.4, 2.2, respectively, and present
implications for future surveys such as Euclid. Our uniquely large volumes/areas
allow us to subdivide the samples in thousands of randomized combinations of areas
and provide a robust empirical measurement of sample/cosmic variance. We show
that surveys for star-forming/emission-line galaxies at a depth similar to ours
can only overcome cosmic-variance (errors <10 per cent) if they are based on volumes
>5 × 105 Mpc3; errors on L* and ϕ* due to sample (cosmic) variance on surveys
probing ∼104 and ∼105 Mpc3 are typically very high: ∼300 and ∼40–60 per cent,
respectively.'
acknowledgement: The authors wish to thank the anonymous reviewer for many helpful
comments and suggestions which greatly improved the clarity and quality of this
work. DS acknowledges financial support from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific
research (NWO) through a Veni fellowship, from FCT through an FCT Investigator Starting
Grant and Start-up Grant (IF/01154/2012/CP0189/CT0010), from FCT grant PEst-OE/FIS/UI2751/2014,
and from LSF and LKBF. JM acknowledges the award of a Huygens PhD fellowship. PNB
is grateful for support from STFC. IRS acknowledges support from STFC, a Leverhulme
Fellowship, the ERC Advanced Investigator programme DUSTYGAL and a Royal Society/Wolfson
Merit Award. BMJ acknowledges support from the ERC-StG grant EGGS-278202. The Dark
Cosmology Centre is funded by the DNRF. The Dark Cosmology Centre is funded by the
DNRF. JWK acknowledges support from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
grant, no. 2008-0060544, funded by the Korea government (MSIP). JPS acknowledges
support from STFC (ST/I001573/1). JC acknowledges support from the FCT-IF grant
IF/01154/2012/CP0189/CT0010. The work was only possible due to OPTICON/FP7 and the
invaluable access that it granted to the CFHT telescope. We would also like to acknowledge
the excellent work done by CFHT staff in conducting the observations in service
mode, and on delivering truly excellent data. We are also tremendously thankful
to Kentaro Aoki for the incredible support while observing at Subaru with FMOS,
and also to the Keck staff for the help with the observations with MOSFIRE. This
work is based on observations obtained with WIRCam on the CFHT, OPTICON programme
2011B/029, 2012A019 and 2012B/016. Based on observations made with ESO telescopes
at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under programmes IDs 60.A-9460 (data can be
accessed through the ESO data archive), 087.A 0337 and 089.A-0965. Based on observations
done with FMOS on Subaru under programme S14A-084, and on MOSFIRE/Keck observations
under programme U066M. Part of the data on which this analysis is based are available
from Sobral et al. (2013a). Dedicated to the memory of C. M. Sobral (1953-2014).
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: D.
full_name: Sobral, D.
last_name: Sobral
- first_name: Jorryt J
full_name: Matthee, Jorryt J
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last_name: Matthee
orcid: 0000-0003-2871-127X
- first_name: P. N.
full_name: Best, P. N.
last_name: Best
- first_name: I.
full_name: Smail, I.
last_name: Smail
- first_name: A. A.
full_name: Khostovan, A. A.
last_name: Khostovan
- first_name: B.
full_name: Milvang-Jensen, B.
last_name: Milvang-Jensen
- first_name: J.-W.
full_name: Kim, J.-W.
last_name: Kim
- first_name: J.
full_name: Stott, J.
last_name: Stott
- first_name: J.
full_name: Calhau, J.
last_name: Calhau
- first_name: H.
full_name: Nayyeri, H.
last_name: Nayyeri
- first_name: B.
full_name: Mobasher, B.
last_name: Mobasher
citation:
ama: 'Sobral D, Matthee JJ, Best PN, et al. CF-HiZELS, an ∼10 deg2 emission-line
survey with spectroscopic follow-up: Hα, [O III] + Hβ and [O II] luminosity functions
at z = 0.8, 1.4 and 2.2 . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
2015;451(3):2303-2323. doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1076'
apa: 'Sobral, D., Matthee, J. J., Best, P. N., Smail, I., Khostovan, A. A., Milvang-Jensen,
B., … Mobasher, B. (2015). CF-HiZELS, an ∼10 deg2 emission-line survey with spectroscopic
follow-up: Hα, [O III] + Hβ and [O II] luminosity functions at z = 0.8, 1.4 and
2.2 . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford University
Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1076'
chicago: 'Sobral, D., Jorryt J Matthee, P. N. Best, I. Smail, A. A. Khostovan, B.
Milvang-Jensen, J.-W. Kim, et al. “CF-HiZELS, an ∼10 Deg2 Emission-Line Survey
with Spectroscopic Follow-up: Hα, [O III] + Hβ and [O II] Luminosity Functions
at z = 0.8, 1.4 and 2.2 .” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Oxford University Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1076.'
ieee: 'D. Sobral et al., “CF-HiZELS, an ∼10 deg2 emission-line survey with
spectroscopic follow-up: Hα, [O III] + Hβ and [O II] luminosity functions at z
= 0.8, 1.4 and 2.2 ,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,
vol. 451, no. 3. Oxford University Press, pp. 2303–2323, 2015.'
ista: 'Sobral D, Matthee JJ, Best PN, Smail I, Khostovan AA, Milvang-Jensen B, Kim
J-W, Stott J, Calhau J, Nayyeri H, Mobasher B. 2015. CF-HiZELS, an ∼10 deg2 emission-line
survey with spectroscopic follow-up: Hα, [O III] + Hβ and [O II] luminosity functions
at z = 0.8, 1.4 and 2.2 . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 451(3),
2303–2323.'
mla: 'Sobral, D., et al. “CF-HiZELS, an ∼10 Deg2 Emission-Line Survey with Spectroscopic
Follow-up: Hα, [O III] + Hβ and [O II] Luminosity Functions at z = 0.8, 1.4 and
2.2 .” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 451, no.
3, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 2303–23, doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1076.'
short: D. Sobral, J.J. Matthee, P.N. Best, I. Smail, A.A. Khostovan, B. Milvang-Jensen,
J.-W. Kim, J. Stott, J. Calhau, H. Nayyeri, B. Mobasher, Monthly Notices of the
Royal Astronomical Society 451 (2015) 2303–2323.
date_created: 2022-07-14T09:02:22Z
date_published: 2015-08-11T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2024-10-14T11:36:57Z
day: '11'
doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv1076
extern: '1'
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1502.06602'
intvolume: ' 451'
issue: '3'
keyword:
- Space and Planetary Science
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 'galaxies: evolution'
- 'galaxies: formation'
- 'galaxies: luminosity function'
- mass function
- 'cosmology: observations'
- early Universe
- large-scale structure of Universe
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url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.06602
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oa_version: Preprint
page: 2303-2323
publication: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
publication_identifier:
eissn:
- 1365-2966
issn:
- 0035-8711
publication_status: published
publisher: Oxford University Press
quality_controlled: '1'
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title: 'CF-HiZELS, an ∼10 deg2 emission-line survey with spectroscopic follow-up:
Hα, [O III] + Hβ and [O II] luminosity functions at z = 0.8, 1.4 and 2.2 '
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