Euclid: Testing photometric selection of emission-line galaxy targets

UNSPECIFIED (2024) Euclid: Testing photometric selection of emission-line galaxy targets. Astronomy and Astrophysics. ISSN 1432-0746 (In Press)

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Abstract

Multi-object spectroscopic galaxy surveys typically make use of photometric and colour criteria to select targets. Conversely, the Euclid NISP slitless spectrograph will record spectra for every source over its field of view. Slitless spectroscopy has the advantage of avoiding defining a priori a galaxy sample, but at the price of making the selection function harder to quantify. The Euclid Wide Survey aims at building robust statistical samples of emission-line galaxies with fluxes in the Halpha-NII complex brighter than 2e-16 erg/s/cm^2 and within 0.9