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COSMOS2020: A Panchromatic View of the Universe to z ∼ 10 from Two Complementary Catalogs

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Abstract

jats:titleAbstract</jats:title> jats:pThe Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) has become a cornerstone of extragalactic astronomy. Since the last public catalog in 2015, a wealth of new imaging and spectroscopic data have been collected in the COSMOS field. This paper describes the collection, processing, and analysis of these new imaging data to produce a new reference photometric redshift catalog. Source detection and multiwavelength photometry are performed for 1.7 million sources across the 2 degjats:sup2</jats:sup> of the COSMOS field, ∼966,000 of which are measured with all available broadband data using both traditional aperture photometric methods and a new profile-fitting photometric extraction tool, jats:scThe Farmer</jats:sc>, which we have developed. A detailed comparison of the two resulting photometric catalogs is presented. Photometric redshifts are computed for all sources in each catalog utilizing two independent photometric redshift codes. Finally, a comparison is made between the performance of the photometric methodologies and of the redshift codes to demonstrate an exceptional degree of self-consistency in the resulting photometric redshifts. The jats:italici</jats:italic> < 21 sources have subpercent photometric redshift accuracy and even the faintest sources at 25 < jats:italici</jats:italic> < 27 reach a precision of 5%. Finally, these results are discussed in the context of previous, current, and future surveys in the COSMOS field. Compared to COSMOS2015, it reaches the same photometric redshift precision at almost one magnitude deeper. Both photometric catalogs and their photometric redshift solutions and physical parameters will be made available through the usual astronomical archive systems (ESO Phase 3, IPAC-IRSA, and CDS).</jats:p>

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5109 Space Sciences, 51 Physical Sciences

Journal Title

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

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Journal ISSN

0067-0049
1538-4365

Volume Title

258

Publisher

American Astronomical Society
Sponsorship
EC ∣ European Research Council (ERC) (648179)
EC ∣ H2020 ∣ H2020 Priority Excellent Science ∣ H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (896225)
National Science Foundation (NSF) (ast-1714528)
National Science Foundation (NSF) (ast-1814034)
National Science Foundation (NSF) (ast-2009577)
National Science Foundation (NSF) (ast-1614213)
National Science Foundation (NSF) (ast-1910107)
Danmarks Grundforskningsfond (DNRF) (140)
Villum Fonden (Villum Foundation) (13160)