Daniel Stern, Andrew Connolly, Peter Eisenhardt, Richard Elston, Brad Holden, Piero Rosati, S. A. Stanford, Hyron Spinrad, Paolo Tozzi, K. L. Wu
Published 2000-12-06Version 1
We present first results from SPICES, the Spectroscopic, Photometric, Infrared-Chosen Extragalactic Survey. SPICES is comprised of four ~30 square arcminute high Galactic latitude fields with deep BRIzJK imaging reaching depths of ~25th magnitude (AB) in the optical and ~23rd magnitude (AB) in the near-infrared. To date we have 626 spectroscopic redshifts for infrared-selected SPICES sources with K<20 (Vega). The project is poised to address galaxy formation and evolution to redshift z~2. We discuss initial results from the survey, including the surface density of extremely red objects and the fraction of infrared sources at z>1. One of the SPICES fields has been the target of a deep 190 ksec Chandra exposure; we discuss initial results from analysis of that data set. Finally, we briefly discuss a successful campaign to identify high-redshift sources in the SPICES fields.
Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures; to appear in the proceedings of the ESO/ECF workshop on "Deep Fields", 9-12 Oktober 2000, Garching
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