W24-SMF-paper-catalogs

General information

Photometric catalogs with bagpipes output used to compute SMFs in:

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024arXiv240308872W/abstract

Please cite this paper when using the catalogs.

See there for details on the original catalog production from the images which were obtained from the DJA:

https://dawn-cph.github.io/dja/imaging/v7/

A description of the catalog columns is provided in the README file and on github:

https://github.com/weibelan/W24-SMF-paper-catalogs

where you can also find another version of the catalogs and the corresponding inferred SMF-parameters based on a double power-law plus burst SFH-model in bagpipes (instead of the default delayed-tau model).

Photometric catalogs

There are five photometric catalogs, each named according to the field it covers (The PRIMER fields, CEERS and GOODS-S). Note that there are two catalogs covering the GOODS-S field. "jades-gs_*" roughly covers the JADES DR1 footprint while "gds-sw_*" covers a wider region to the southwest with data from JADES and various other surveys. While the underlying mosaics overlap, we have removed duplicate sources from the "gds-sw_*" catalog.

Here, we only share a subset of each catalog, selected to contain objects at z > 3. The selection criteria are outlined in Section 2.3 of the paper. In terms of the catalog columns, the selection corresponds to

1) z_phot_eazy > 3
2) P(z_phot_eazy > 2.5) > 0.8
3) sn_lw_det_img > 10
4) flag_f115w = flag_f150w = flag_f200w = flag_f277w = flag_f356w = flag_f444w = 0
5) sn_flag = stellar_flag = hugekron_flag = nofit_flag = junk_flag = 0

Therefore, use_phot=1 and the '*_flag' columns are =0 for all the objects in the catalogs by design of the selection. 

Stellar Mass Function Parameters

The files "smf_*" contain the measured number density of galaxies as a function of stellar mass and in one file per redshift bin.