Bibcode
Moles, M.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Alfaro, E. J.; Benítez, N.; Broadhurst, T.; Cabrera-Caño, J.; Castander, F. J.; Cepa, J.; Cerviño, M.; Fernández Soto, A.; González Delgado, R. M.; Infante, L.; Martínez, V. J.; Masegosa, J.; Márquez, I.; Del Olmo, A.; Perea, J.; Prada, F.; Quintana, J. M.; Sánchez, S. F.
Bibliographical reference
Pathways Through an Eclectic Universe ASP Conference Series, Vol. 390, proceedings of the conference held 23-27 April, 2007 at Santiago del Teide, Tenerife, Spain. Edited by J. H. Knapen, T. J. Mahoney, and A. Vazdekis San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008., p.495
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Description
ALHAMBRA is a survey of eight separate regions of the sky with a total
area of 4 sq. deg. The fields are observed with the LAICA (visible) and
OMEGA-2000 (near infrared) cameras mounted on the 3.5 m telescope of
CAHA observatory. The survey is done with a set of 20 adjacent
medium-band filters that cover the visible range. These filters,
together with three standard near-infrared ones, allow for a detailed
measurement of the spectral energy distribution and redshift of a
multitude of objects, stretching over an unprecedented range of
distances for such a large-area survey. In particular, the basic
motivation of the whole ALHAMBRA project is the cosmic evolution of
galaxies. ALHAMBRA has been designed to cover the niche between deep
pencil-beam surveys, which are necessarily restricted to small areas,
and large-area shallow surveys that only probe the local Universe. The
project enjoys Spanish guaranteed observing time status at the Calar
Alto facilities. In this poster, we present the project and the first
results obtained.