The CEERS Photometric and Physical Parameter Catalog
Authors
Isa G. Cox
Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe
Micaela B. Bagley
Steven L. Finkelstein
Caitlin Rose
Ali Ahmad Khostovan
Katherine Chworowsky
Olivier Ilbert
Anton M. Koekemoer
Henry C. Ferguson
Pablo Arrabal Haro
Bren E. Backhaus
Mark Dickinson
Adriano Fontana
Yuchen Guo
Andrea Grazian
Norman A. Grogin
Santosh Harish
Nimish P. Hathi
Benne W. Holwerda
Kartheik G. Iyer
Lisa J. Kewley
Allison Kirkpatrick
Dale D. Kocevski
Rebecca L. Larson
Jennifer M. Lotz
Ray A. Lucas
Fabio Pacucci
Casey Papovich
Laura Pentericci
Pablo G. Pérez-González
Nor Pirzkal
Swara Ravindranath
Rachel S. Somerville
Jonathan R. Trump
Stephen M. Wilkins
Guang Yang
L. Y. Aaron Yung
Abstract
We present the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS) catalog, including space-based photometry, photometric redshifts, and physical parameters for more than 80,000 galaxies. The imaging used for this catalog comes from the CEERS survey, which has NIRCam coverage over ~100 sq. arcmin of the Extended Groth Strip (EGS) in seven filters from 1.15$μ$m to 4.44$μ$m. Alongside these data, we also include ancillary HST imaging in seven filters from 0.435$μ$m to 1.6$μ$m. We used Source Extractor with hot and cold detection settings to extract photometry. We derive photometric redshifts using the spectral energy distribution (SED) modeling code, LePHARE, and estimate their accuracy using spectroscopically confirmed galaxies out to $z\sim10$, with $σ_{NMAD}$ ranging from 0.035-0.073, depending strongly on galaxy magnitude and redshift. We compute stellar masses, star formation rates, and E(B-V) using three different SED fitting codes with different templates and assumptions about the galaxy star formation histories. All of these measurements, as well as the full mosaics in all filters, and redshift probability distribution functions, are made available via the CEERS DR1.0 data release.
