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Boötes Field

(moderate size survey field)

The Boötes Field is a 9-square-degree survey field, one of two fields defined in the late 1990s, chosen as relatively free of infrared cirrus, for the NOAO Deep Wide-field Survey (NDWFS), a optical/NIR survey. The expression deep wide indicated the survey would provide what was normally thought of as a deep-field level of detail, but over a wider field, reflecting the technology improvements of the time. The field has been the target of subsequent surveys aiming to build a substantial set of observational data for a set of astronomical objects. These include surveys using Herschel Space Observatory, Spitzer Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, Low-frequency Array, the Allen Telescope Array, and the Isaac Newton Telescope.


(survey field)
Further reading:
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=bootes+field
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao0101a/
https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noao0101/
https://herscheltelescope.org.uk/results/bootes-field/
https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/bootes/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999ASPC..191..111J/abstract
Coordinates:Boötes Field
J143206+341648

Referenced by page:
IRAC Shallow Survey (ISS)

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