2006/12/12 by N. Scoville, H. Aussel, M. Brusa +19 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/516585
22 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2006/12/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) is designed to probe the correlated evolution of galaxies, star formation, active galactic nuclei (AGN) and dark matter (DM) with large-scale structure (LSS) over the redshift range z > 0.5 to 6. The survey includes multi-wavelength imaging and spectroscopy from X-ray to radio wavelengths covering a 2 \sq°area, including HST imaging. Given the very high sensitivity and resolution of these datasets, COSMOS also provides unprecedented samples of objects at high redshift with greatly reduced cosmic variance, compared to earlier surveys. Here we provide a brief overview of the survey strategy, the characteristics of the major COSMOS datasets, and summarize the science goals.