COMBO-17 science applications

Classifying Objects by Medium-Band Observations
- a spectrophotometric 17-filter survey -

The COMBO-17 science applications:

I. Galaxies:

Galaxy luminosity function at z=0.2..1.2 (published)
Galaxy mass function at z=0.2..1.2 (published)
Clustering evolution of field galaxies (published)
Galaxy LF of Early-types at z=0.2..1.1 (published)

II. Dark matter:

Galaxy-galaxy lensing from dark haloes (published)

Shear power spectrum (published)

Intrinsic alignment in weak lensing (published)

Cosmic shear in deep and shallow surveys (published)

Dark matter density maps from weak gravitational lensing (published)

III. Clusters:

Linking galaxy properties and environment (published)

Watching galaxy transformation in clusters (published)

Search for galaxy clusters out to z=1 (in preparation)

IV. AGNs:

Quasar luminosity function at z=1..4 (published)

Host galaxies at z<3 (published, see GEMS project)

Identification of X-ray sources (published)

V. Other:

White dwarfs at faint magnitudes

Quality assessment of classification and redshifts

Photometric redshifts with maximum a-priori-knowledge (published, see Edmondson et al.)

Multi-wavelength analyses including data from GALEX, Spitzer (IRAC+MIPS) (IF, KM, HWR, CW)

IIV. Project collaborations:

HST mosaic GEMS on Chandra DFS
(PI: H.-W. Rix, MPIA)

HST mosaic STAGES on A901 field
(PI: M.-E. Gray, Nottingham)

A Wide-Field Search for Lyman-Alpha Galaxies at z=5.7
(PIs: H. Jones, Sydney, K. Meisenheimer, MPIA)

COMBO-17+4 / MANOS-deep
(PI: K. Meisenheimer)

HIROCS Cluster Search / MANOS-wide
(PIs: H.-J. Röser, MPIA)

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Last update May 10, 2007, CW