CALIFA, the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey. I. Survey presentation

  • S. F. Sánchez
  • , R. C. Kennicutt
  • , A. Gil de Paz
  • , G. van de Ven
  • , J. M. Vílchez
  • , L. Wisotzki
  • , C. J. Walcher
  • , D. Mast
  • , J. A. L. Aguerri
  • , S. Albiol-Pérez
  • , A. Alonso-Herrero
  • , J. Alves
  • , J. Bakos
  • , T. Bartáková
  • , J. Bland-Hawthorn
  • , A. Boselli
  • , D. J. Bomans
  • , A. Castillo-Morales
  • , C. Cortijo-Ferrero
  • , A. de Lorenzo-Cáceres
  • A. Del Olmo, R.-J. Dettmar, A. Díaz, S. Ellis, J. Falcón-Barroso, H. Flores, A. Gallazzi, B. García-Lorenzo, R. González Delgado, N. Gruel, T. Haines, C. Hao, B. Husemann, J. Iglésias-Páramo, K. Jahnke, B. Johnson, B. Jungwiert, V. Kalinova, C. Kehrig, D. Kupko, Á. R. López-Sánchez, M. Lyubenova, R. A. Marino, E. Mármol-Queraltó, I. Márquez, J. Masegosa, S. Meidt, J. Mendez-Abreu, A. Monreal-Ibero, C. Montijo, A. M. Mourão, G. Palacios-Navarro, P. Papaderos, A. Pasquali, R. Peletier, E. Pérez, I. Pérez, A. Quirrenbach, M. Relaño, F. F. Rosales-Ortega, M. M. Roth, T. Ruiz-Lara, P. Sánchez-Blázquez, C. Sengupta, R. Singh, V. Stanishev, S. C. Trager, A. Vazdekis, K. Viironen, V. Wild, S. Zibetti, B. Ziegler

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Abstract

We present here the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area (CALIFA) survey, which has been designed to provide a first step in this direction.We summarize the survey goals and design, including sample selection and observational strategy.We also showcase the data taken during the first observing runs (June/July 2010) and outline the reduction pipeline, quality control schemes and general characteristics of the reduced data. This survey is obtaining spatially resolved spectroscopic information of a diameter selected sample of $\sim600$ galaxies in the Local Universe (0.005<z
Original languageEnglish
Article numberA8
Number of pages32
JournalAstronomy & Astrophysics
Volume538
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2012

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 103003 Astronomy

Keywords

  • techniques: spectroscopic
  • galaxies: active
  • galaxies: evolution
  • surveys
  • galaxies: ISM
  • galaxies: stellar content

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