CLEAR: Survey Overview, Data Analysis, and Products

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  • Raymond C. Simons
  • Casey Papovich
  • Ivelina G. Momcheva
  • Vicente Estrada-Carpenter
  • Steven L. Finkelstein
  • Catherine M. Gosmeyer
  • Jonathan R. Trump
  • Bren E. Backhaus
  • Yingjie Cheng
  • Nikko J. Cleri
  • Henry C. Ferguson
  • Kristian Finlator
  • Mauro Giavalisco
  • Zhiyuan Ji
  • Intae Jung
  • Jennifer M. Lotz
  • Rosalia O'Brien
  • Rosalind E. Skelton
  • Vithal Tilvi
  • Benjamin Weiner

We present an overview of the CANDELS Ly alpha Emission At Reionization (CLEAR) survey. CLEAR is a 130 orbit program of the Hubble Space Telescope using the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) IR G102 grism. CLEAR targets 12 pointings divided between the GOODS-N and GOODS-S fields of the Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). Combined with existing spectroscopic data from other programs, the full CLEAR data set includes spectroscopic imaging of these fields over 0.8-1.7 mu m. In this paper, we describe the CLEAR survey, the survey strategy, the data acquisition, reduction, processing, and science products and catalogs released alongside this paper. The catalogs include emission line fluxes and redshifts derived from the combination of the photometry and grism spectroscopy for 6048 galaxies, primarily ranging from 0.2 less than or similar to z less than or similar to 3. We also provide an overview of CLEAR's science goals and results. In conjunction with this paper we provide links to electronic versions of the data products, including 1D+2D extracted spectra and emission line maps.

Original languageEnglish
Article number13
JournalAstrophysical Journal
Volume266
Issue number1
Number of pages22
ISSN0067-0049
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2023

    Research areas

  • STAR-FORMING GALAXIES, LY-ALPHA EMISSION, TEXAS SPECTROSCOPIC SEARCH, SIMILAR-TO 7, EQUIVALENT-WIDTH DISTRIBUTION, PHASE METALLICITY GRADIENTS, WFC3 GRISM SPECTROSCOPY, INITIAL MASS FUNCTION, LENS-AMPLIFIED SURVEY, LYMAN BREAK GALAXIES

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