The Spitzer-HETDEX Exploratory Large Area Survey II: Dark Energy Camera and Spitzer/IRAC Multiwavelength Catalog

Abstract

We present the $ugriz$-band Dark Energy Camera (DECam) plus 3.6 and 4.5 $\mu$m IRAC catalogs for the Spitzer/HETDEX Exploratory Large-Area (SHELA) survey. SHELA covers $\sim 24$ deg${}^2$ of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82 region, with seven bandpasses spanning a wavelength range of 0.35 to 4.5 $\mu$m. SHELA falls within the footprint of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), which will provide spectroscopic redshifts for $\sim 200,000$ Ly$\alpha$ emitters at $1.9<z<3.5$ and also for $\sim 200,000$ [OII] emitters at $z<0.5$. SHELA's deep, wide-area multiwavelength images combined with HETDEX's spectroscopic information, will facilitate many extragalactic studies, including measuring the evolution of galaxy stellar mass, halo mass, and environment from $1.5<z<3.5$. Here we present $riz$-band selected $ugriz$-band DECam catalogs that reach a $5\sigma$ depth of $\sim 24.5$ AB mag (for point sources with an aperture that encloses $70\%$ of the total flux) and cover $17.5$ deg${}^2$ of the overall SHELA field. We validate our DECam catalog by comparison to the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) DR5 and the Dark Energy Survey (DES) DR1. We perform IRAC forced photometry with The Tractor image modeling code to measure 3.6 and 4.5 $\mu$m fluxes for all objects within our DECam catalog. We demonstrate the utility of our catalog by computing galaxy number counts and estimating photometric redshifts. Our photometric redshifts recover the available $⟨z⟩=0.33$ SDSS spectroscopic redshifts with a $1\sigma$ scatter in $\Delta z/(1+z)$ of 0.04.

20 pages, 14 figures, accepted by ApJS

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