European Large-Area ISO Survey (ELAIS) Final Band-Merged Catalog
Short Name:
ELAISFBMC
Date:
07 Mar 2025
Publisher:
NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Description:
This table contains the final band-merged European Large-Area ISO Survey (ELAIS) Catalog at 6.7, 15, 90 and 175 microns (µm), and the associated data at U, g', r', i', Z, J, H, K and 20 cm. The origin of the survey, infrared and radio observations, data-reduction and optical identifications are briefly reviewed in the reference paper, and a summary of the area covered and the completeness limit for each infrared band is given. A detailed discussion of the band-merging and optical association strategy is given in the paper. The total catalog consists of 3762 sources. 23% of the 15-um sources and 75% of the 6.7-um sources are stars. In the paper, for extragalactic sources observed in three or more infrared bands, color-color diagrams are presented and discussed in terms of the contributing infrared populations. Spectroscopic redshifts are tabulated, where available. For the N1 and N2 areas, the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) ugriz Wide Field Survey permits photometric redshifts to be estimated for galaxies and quasars. These agree well with the spectroscopic redshifts, within the uncertainty of the photometric method (~10% in (1 +z) for galaxies). There is a high proportion of ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs, with log<sub>10</sub> of 1-1000 um luminosity L<sub>ir</sub> > 12.22) in the ELAIS Catalog (14% of 15-um galaxies with known z), many with Arp 220-like SEDs. 10% of the 15-um sources are genuine optically blank fields to r'= 24: these must have very high infrared-to-optical ratios and probably have z > 0.6, so are high-luminosity dusty starbursts or Type 2 AGN. Nine hyperluminous infrared galaxies (L<sub>ir</sub> > 13.22) and nine extremely red objects (EROs) (r-K > 6) are found in the survey. The latter are interpreted as ultraluminous dusty infrared galaxies at z ~ 1. The large numbers of ultraluminous galaxies imply very strong evolution in the star formation rate between z = 0 and 1. There is also a surprisingly large population of luminous (L<sub>ir</sub> > 11.5), cool (cirrus-type SEDs) galaxies, with L<sub>ir</sub> - L<sub>opt</sub> > 0, implying A<sub>V</sub> > 1. This table contains the total catalog of 3762 ELIAS band-merged sources. This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2012 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/MNRAS/351/1290">CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/351/1290</a> files catalog.dat (3523 sources) and unassoc.dat (239 sources). It was last updated in November 2012 to correct the 6.7-micron flux density values for 14 entries using data provided directly from the primary author. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
