The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey

We present the MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Survey, a mosaic of nine MUSE fields covering 90% of the entire HUDF region with a 10-hour deep exposure time, plus a deeper 31-hour exposure in a single 1.15 arcmin² field. From this unique data set  we derive 1338 high quality redshifts, which is a factor of eight increase compared with the previously known spectroscopic redshifts in the same field. The redshift distribution extends well beyond z > 3 and to HST/F775W magnitudes as faint as ≈ 30 mag (AB). In addition a number of sources were discovered without HST counterpart.

Left: Reconstructed white light image. Top Right: histogram of the MUSE redshift distribution. Bottom right: MUSE redshifts versus HST F775W AB magnitudes (upper limits for the MUSE sources without HST counterpart are shown as square symbols).

This survey enables new and detailed studies of the physical properties of the galaxy population and their environments over a large redshift range.  The main results are described in a series of 10 papers published in A&A:

  1. “The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey: I. Survey description, data reduction and source detection“, Bacon et al. 2017, A&A, [astro-ph]
  2. “The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey: II. Spectroscopic redshifts and comparisons to color selections of high-redshift galaxies“, Inami et al. 2017, A&A, [astro-ph]
  3. “The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey: III. Testing photometric redshifts to 30th magnitude“, Brinchmann et al. 2017, A&A, [astro-ph]
  4. “The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey: IV. Global properties of C III] emitters“. Maseda et al. 2017. A&A, [astro-ph]
  5. “The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey: V. Spatially resolved stellar kinematics of galaxies at redshift 0.2<z<0.8“, Guerou et al. 2017, A&A [astro-ph]
  6. “The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey VI: The Faint-End of the Lyα
    Luminosity Function at 2.91 < z < 6.64 and Implications for Reionisation“, Drake et al. 2017, A&A [astro-ph]
  7. “The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey: VII. FeII* Emission in Star-Forming Galaxies“, Finley et al. 2017, A&A [astro-ph]
  8. “The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey VIII : Extended Lyman-alpha haloes around high-redshift star-forming galaxies“, Leclercq et al. 2017, A&A [astro-ph]
  9. “The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey. IX. Evolution of galaxy merger fraction since z~6“, Ventou et al. 2017, A&A [astro-ph]
  10. “The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey X. Lyα Equivalent Widths at 2.9<z<6.6“. Hashimoto et al. 2017, A&A [astro-ph]

Data and Catalog Release

The corresponding catalogs and data sets can be found here:

Note that an improved version of datacubes, spectra, associated narrow band images and source catalog images  is currently been processed. When ready it will be announced and made publicly available at this page: http://muse-vlt.eu/science/udf-data-and-source-browser/