The European large area ISO survey: ELAIS

Rowan-Robinson, M.; Oliver, S.; Efstathiou, A.; Gruppioni, C.; Serjeant, S.; Cesarsky, C. J.; Danese, L.; Franceschini, A.; Genzel, R.; Lawrence, A.; Lemke, D.; McMahon, R.; Miley, G.; Perez-Fournon, I.; Puget, J. L.; Rocca-Volmerange, B.; Ciliegi, P.; Heraudeau, P.; Surace, C.; La Franca, F.; ElAIS Consortium
Bibliographical reference

The Universe as Seen by ISO. Eds. P. Cox & M. F. Kessler. ESA-SP 427., p. 1011

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1999
Number of authors
21
IAC number of authors
1
Citations
22
Refereed citations
19
Description
The European Large Area ISO Survey (ELAIS) has surveyed ~ 12 square degrees of the sky at 15 and 90 μ m and subsets of this area at 6.75 and 175 μ m using the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). This project was the largest single open time programme executed by ISO, taking 375 hours of data. A preliminary catalogue of more than 1000 galaxies has been produced. In this paper we describe the goals of the project, describe the follow-up programmes that are in progress, and present some first scientific results including a provisional number count analysis at 15 and 90 μ m.