@article{5716a244d57a46158975fe7c7fbf7e94,
title = "Spitzer Observations of the North Ecliptic Pole",
abstract = "We present a photometric catalog for Spitzer Space Telescope warm mission observations of the North Ecliptic Pole (NEP; centered at R.A. = 18h00m00s, decl. = 66d33m38.552). The observations are conducted with IRAC in the 3.6 and 4.5 μm bands over an area of 7.04 deg2, reaching 1σ depths of 1.29 μJy and 0.79 μJy in the 3.6 μm and 4.5 μm bands, respectively. The photometric catalog contains 380,858 sources with 3.6 and 4.5 μm band photometry over the full-depth NEP mosaic. Point-source completeness simulations show that the catalog is 80% complete down to 19.7 AB. The accompanying catalog can be used for constraining the physical properties of extragalactic objects, studying the AGN population, measuring the infrared colors of stellar objects, and studying the extragalactic infrared background light.",
keywords = "infrared: galaxies, infrared: stars, surveys",
author = "H. Nayyeri and N. Ghotbi and A. Cooray and J. Bock and Clements, {D. L.} and M. Im and Kim, {M. G.} and P. Korngut and A. Lanz and Lee, {H. M.} and Lee, {D. H.} and M. Malkan and H. Matsuhara and T. Matsumoto and S. Matsuura and Nam, {U. W.} and C. Pearson and S. Serjeant and J. Smidt and K. Tsumura and T. Wada and M. Zemcov",
note = "Funding Information: Financial support for this work was provided by NSF through AST-1313319 for H.N. and A.C. The UCI group also acknowledges support from HST-GO-14083.002-A, HST-GO-13718.002-A, and NASA NNX16AF38G grants. M.I. acknowledge the support from the NRFK grant, No. 2017R1A3A3001362. This work was supported by NASA APRA research grants NNX07AI54G, NNG05WC18G, NNX07AG43G, NNX07AJ24G, and NNX10AE12G. Funding Information: We wish to thank the referee for reading the original manuscript and providing useful suggestions. Financial support for this work was provided by NSF through AST-1313319 for H.N. and A.C. The UCI group also acknowledges support from HST-GO-14083.002-A, HST-GO-13718.002-A, and NASA Funding Information: NNX16AF38G grants. M.I. acknowledge the support from the NRFK grant, No. 2017R1A3A3001362. This work was supported by NASA APRA research grants NNX07AI54G, NNG05WC18G, NNX07AG43G, NNX07AJ24G, and NNX10AE12G. This work is based on observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under a contract with NASA. Support for this work was provided by NASA through an award issued by JPL/Caltech. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.",
year = "2018",
month = feb,
doi = "10.3847/1538-4365/aaa07e",
language = "English",
volume = "234",
journal = "Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series",
issn = "0067-0049",
publisher = "IOP Publishing Ltd.",
number = "2",
}