The European large area ISO survey: ELAIS

M. Rowan-Robinson (1) , S. Oliver , A. Efstathiou , C. Gruppioni (2) , S. Serjeant (3) , C.~j. Cesarsky , L. Danese , A. Franceschini (4) , R. Genzel (5) , A. Lawrence , D. Lemke , R. Mcmahon , G. Miley , I. Pérez-Fournon (6) , J.~l. Puget , B. Rocca-Volmerange (7) , P. Ciliegi (8) , P. Heraudeau , C. Surace (9) , F. La Franca , Elais Consortium

1 Imperial College London
2 AUTRES
3 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Milton Keynes]
4 PPMD - Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Polymères et des Milieux Dispersés
5 MPE - Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
6 IAC - Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
7 IAP - Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
8 OABO - INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna
9 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille

The European Large Area ISO Survey (ELAIS) has surveyed ~ 12 square degrees of the sky at 15 and 90 μ m and subsets of this area at 6.75 and 175 μ m using the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). This project was the largest single open time programme executed by ISO, taking 375 hours of data. A preliminary catalogue of more than 1000 galaxies has been produced. In this paper we describe the goals of the project, describe the follow-up programmes that are in progress, and present some first scientific results including a provisional number count analysis at 15 and 90 μ m.

Mots clés: SURVEYS; STARBURST GALAXIES; AGN

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]; Informatique [cs]

M. Rowan-Robinson, S. Oliver, A. Efstathiou, C. Gruppioni, S. Serjeant, et al.. The European large area ISO survey: ELAIS. The Universe as Seen by ISO, 1999, Unknown, Unknown Region. pp.1011. ⟨hal-01437397⟩