Ivelina Momcheva(Yale University), Gabriel Brammer(Space Telescope Science Institute), Pieter van Dokkum(Whitney Museum of American Art), Rosalind E. Skelton(Yale University), Katherine E. Whitaker(University of Massachusetts Amherst), Erica J. Nelson(Yale University), Mattia Fumagalli(Leiden University), Michael V. Maseda(Max Planck Institute for Astronomy), Joel Leja(Whitney Museum of American Art), Marijn Franx(Leiden University), Hans‐Walter Rix(Max Planck Institute for Astronomy), Rachel Bezanson(University of Arizona), Elisabete da Cunha(Swinburne University of Technology), Claire Dickey(Whitney Museum of American Art), N. M. Förster Schreiber(Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics), G. D. Illingworth(University of California, Santa Cruz), Mariska Kriek(University of California, Berkeley), Ivo Labbé(Leiden University), J. Lange(Yale University), Britt Lundgren(University of Wisconsin–Madison), D. Magee(University of California, Santa Cruz), Danilo Marchesini(Tufts University), Pascal A. Oesch(Yale University), Camilla Pacifici(Space Telescope Science Institute), Shannon G. Patel(Carnegie Observatories), Sedona H. Price(University of California, Berkeley), Tomer Tal(University of California, Santa Cruz), David A. Wake(University of Wisconsin–Madison), Arjen van der Wel(Max Planck Institute for Astronomy), Stijn Wuyts(University of Bath)
Open Research Online (The Open University)
August 11, 2016
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Abstract

We present reduced data and data products from the 3D-HST survey, a 248-orbit $HST$ Treasury program. The survey obtained WFC3 G141 grism spectroscopy in four of the five CANDELS fields: AEGIS, COSMOS, GOODS-S, and UDS, along with WFC3 $H_{140}$ imaging, parallel ACS G800L spectroscopy, and parallel $I_{814}$ imaging. In a previous paper, we presented photometric catalogs in these four fields and in GOODS-N, the fifth CANDELS field. Here we describe and present the WFC3 G141 spectroscopic data, again augmented with data from GO-1600 in GOODS-N (PI: B. Weiner). We developed software to automatically and optimally extract interlaced two-dimensional (2D) and one-dimensional (1D) spectra for all objects in the Skelton et al. (2014) photometric catalogs. The 2D spectra and the multi-band photometry were fit simultaneously to determine redshifts and emission line strengths, taking the morphology of the galaxies explicitly into account. The resulting catalog has redshifts and line strengths (where available) for 22,548 unique objects down to ${{JH}}_{\\mathrm{IR}}\\leq 24$ (79,609 unique objects down to ${{JH}}_{\\mathrm{IR}}\\leq 26$). Of these, 5459 galaxies are at $z > 1.5$ and 9621 are at $0.7< z< 1.5$, where Hα falls in the G141 wavelength coverage. The typical redshift error for ${{JH}}_{\\mathrm{IR}}\\leq 24$ galaxies is ${\\sigma }_{z}\\approx 0.003\\times (1+z)$, i.e., one native WFC3 pixel. The $3\\sigma $ limit for emission line fluxes of point sources is $2.1\\times {10}^{-17}$ erg $s^{-1} cm^{-2}$. All 2D and 1D spectra, as well as redshifts, line fluxes, and other derived parameters, are publicly available.


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