J/MNRAS/413/80    Hubble Space Telescope GOODS NICMOS Survey (Conselice+, 2011)
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The Hubble Space Telescope GOODS NICMOS Survey:
overview and the evolution of massive galaxies at 1.5< z < 3.
    Conselice C.J., Bluck A.F.L., Buitrago F., Bauer A.E., Grutzbauch R.,
    Bouwens R.J., Bevan S., Mortlock A., Dickinson M., Daddi E., Yan H.,
    Scott D., Chapman S.C., Chary R.-R., Ferguson H.C., Giavalisco M.,
    Grogin N., Illingworth G., Jogee S., Koekemoer A.M., Lucas R.A.,
    Mobasher B., Moustakas L., Papovich C., Ravindranath S., Siana B.,
    Teplitz H., Trujillo I., Urry M., Weinzirl T.
   <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 413, 80-100 (2011)>
   =2011MNRAS.413...80C
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ADC_Keywords: Surveys ; Photometry ; Redshifts
Keywords: galaxies: evolution - galaxies: formation - galaxies: structure

Abstract:
    We present the details and early results from a deep near-infrared
    survey utilizing the NICMOS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope
    centred around massive M*>10^11^M_{sun}_ galaxies at 1.7<z<2.9 found
    within the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) fields
    North and South. The GOODS NICMOS Survey (GNS) was designed to obtain
    deep F160W (H-band) imaging of 80 of these massive galaxies and other
    colour-selected objects such as Lyman-break dropouts, BzK objects,
    distant red galaxies (DRGs), extremely red objects (EROs),
    Spitzer-selected EROs, BX/BM galaxies, as well as flux-selected
    submillimetre galaxies. We present in this paper details of the
    observations, our sample selection, as well as a description of the
    properties of the massive galaxies found within our survey fields.
    This includes photometric redshifts, rest-frame colours and stellar
    masses. We furthermore provide an analysis of the selection methods
    for finding massive galaxies at high redshifts, including
    colour-selection methods and how galaxy populations selected through
    these colour methods overlap.

File Summary:
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 FileName   Lrecl  Records  Explanations
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ReadMe         80        .  This file
master.dat     76     8298  SExtractor catalog
photom.dat    244     8298  Modified GNS catalog with stellar masses, rest-frame
                            colors and absolute magnitudes. Asa Bluck, 08/2009
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See also:
     B/hst : HST Archived Exposures Catalog (STScI, 2007)
    II/261 : GOODS initial results (Giavalisco+, 2004)
   VII/246 : GOODS Morphological Catalog (Bundy+, 2005)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: master.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  4  I4    ---     GNS       [1/8298] Running number
   6-  8  A3    ---     Field     Field designation
  10- 12  I3    ---     No        Identification number within the field
  14- 21  F8.4  deg     RAdeg     Right ascension (J2000)
  23- 30  F8.4  deg     DEdeg     Declination (J2000)
  32- 44  F13.7 ---     Flux      Flux in H band (units unspecified)
  50- 63  F14.7 ---   e_Flux      rms uncertainty on Flux
  65- 71  F7.4  mag     Hmag      NICMOS H-band (F160W) magnitude
  73- 76  F4.2  ---     Class     [0/1] Class_star parameter
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: photom.dat
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   Bytes Format Units    Label    Explanations
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   1-  4  I4    ---      GNS      [1/8298] ID Number
   6- 16  F11.7 deg      RAdeg    Right ascension (J2000)
  18- 28  F11.7 deg      DEdeg    Declination (J2000)
  30- 36  F7.4  mag      Bmag     ?=99 ACS B (450) magnitude
  38- 44  F7.4  mag      Vmag     ?=99 ACS V (606) magnitude
  46- 52  F7.4  mag      imag     ?=99 ACS i (775) magnitude
  54- 60  F7.4  mag      zmag     ?=99 ACS z (850) magnitude
  62- 68  F7.4  mag      Hmag     NICMOS H (F160W) magnitude
  70- 75  F6.4  mag    e_Bmag     ?=9.9999 rms uncertainty on Bmag
  77- 82  F6.4  mag    e_Vmag     ?=9.9999 rms uncertainty on Vmag
  84- 89  F6.4  mag    e_imag     ?=9.9999 rms uncertainty on imag
  91- 96  F6.4  mag    e_zmag     ?=9.9999 rms uncertainty on zmag
  98-103  F6.4  mag    e_Hmag     ?=9.9999 rms uncertainty on Hmag
 105-112  F8.5  ---      zsp      ?=99 Spectroscopic redshift (0=star)
 114-118  F5.3  ---      zph      Photometric redshift
 120-126  F7.3  ---    e_zph      rms uncertainty on zph
                                   (value>10 means not measured)
 128-133  F6.2   %       Pzph     [0/100] Probability of zph
 135-143  F9.3  [Msun]   logMp    ?=99999 log(Stellar Mass) from photo-z (1)
 145-155  F11.9 [Msun] e_logMp    ?=0 rms uncertainty on logMp
 157-162  F6.3  [Msun]   logMs    ?=0 log(Stellar Mass) from spec-z (2)
 164-174  F11.9 [Msun] e_logMs    ?=0 rms uncertainty on logMs
 176-184  E9.4  yr       Age      Age from SM code
 186-191  F6.4  mag      U-B0p    ?=9.9999 Rest-frame U-B color from photo-z (1)
 193-199  F7.3  mag      UMag0p   ?=-99 Absolute U magnitude from photo-z (1)
 201-207  F7.3  mag      BMag0p   ?=-99 Absolute B magnitude from photo-z (1)
 209-215  F7.3  mag      VMag0p   ?=0 Absolute V magnitude from photo-z (1)
 217-222  F6.4  mag      U-B0s    ?=0 Rest-frame U-B color from spec-z (2)
 224-230  F7.3  mag      UMag0s   ?=0 Absolute U magnitude from spec-z (2)
 232-237  F6.2  mag      BMag0s   ?=0 Absolute B magnitude from spec-z (2)
 239-244  F6.2  mag      VMag0s   ?=0 Absolute V magnitude from spec-z (2)
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Note (1): Rest-frame absolute magnitude; not available due to no ACS bands
Note (2): Rest-frame absolute magnitude; not available due to no spec-z 
     or being a star.
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History:
    Copied at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/astronomy/gns/master.cat

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(End)                                      Patricia Vannier [CDS]    06-Sep-2013