ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: $HST$ and $Spitzer$ Photometry of 33 Lensed Fields Built with CHArGE

Abstract

We present a set of multi-wavelength mosaics and photometric catalogs in the ALMA lensing cluster survey (ALCS) fields. The catalogs were built by reprocessing of archival data from the CHArGE compilation, taken by the $textitHubble Space Telescope$ ($textitHST$) in the RELICS, CLASH and Hubble Frontier Fields. Additionally we have reconstructed the $textitSpitzer$ IRAC 3.6 and 4.5 $μ$m mosaics, by utilising all the available archival IRSA/SHA exposures. To alleviate the effect of blending in such a crowded region, we have modelled the $textitSpitzer$ photometry by convolving the $textitHST$ detection image with the $textitSpitzer$ PSF using the novel $textttgolfir$ software. The final catalogs contain 218,000 sources, covering a combined area of 690 arcmin$^2$. These catalogs will serve as an important tool in aiding the search of the sub-mm galaxies in future ALMA surveys, as well as follow ups of the $textitHST$ dark - IRAC sources. Coupled with the available $textitHST$ photometry the addition of the 3.6 and 4.5 $μ$m bands will allow us to place a better constraint on photometric redshifts and stellar masses of these objects, thus giving us an opportunity to identify high-redshift candidates for spectroscopic follow ups and answer the important questions regarding the epoch of reionization and formation of first galaxies.

Publication
arXiv e-prints

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