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Marchesi","B. Milvang-Jensen","M. Salvato","D. B. Sanders","N. Scoville","V. Smolcic","M. Stockmann","Y. Taniguchi","L. Tasca","S. Toft","M. Vaccari","J. Zabl"],"abstract":"We present the COSMOS2015 catalog which contains precise photometric redshifts and stellar masses for more than half a million objects over the 2deg$^{2}$ COSMOS field. Including new $YJHK_{\\rm s}$ images from the UltraVISTA-DR2 survey, $Y$-band from Subaru/Hyper-Suprime-Cam and infrared data from the Spitzer Large Area Survey with the Hyper-Suprime-Cam Spitzer legacy program, this near-infrared-selected catalog is highly optimized for the study of galaxy evolution and environments in the early Universe. To maximise catalog completeness for bluer objects and at higher redshifts, objects have been detected on a $\\chi^{2}$ sum of the $YJHK_{\\rm s}$ and $z^{++}$ images. The catalog contains $\\sim 6\\times 10^5$ objects in the 1.5 deg$^{2}$ UltraVISTA-DR2 region, and $\\sim 1.5\\times 10^5$ objects are detected in the \"ultra-deep stripes\" (0.62 deg$^{2}$) at $K_{\\rm s}\\leq 24.7$ (3$\\sigma$, 3\", AB magnitude). Through a comparison with the zCOSMOS-bright spectroscopic redshifts, we measure a photometric redshift precision of $\\sigma_{\\Delta z/(1+z_s)}$ = 0.007 and a catastrophic failure fraction of $\\eta=0.5$%. At $3<z<6$, using the unique database of spectroscopic redshifts in COSMOS, we find $\\sigma_{\\Delta z/(1+z_s)}$ = 0.021 and $\\eta=13.2\\% $. The deepest regions reach a 90\\% completeness limit of 10$^{10}M_\\odot$ to $z=4$. Detailed comparisons of the color distributions, number counts, and clustering show excellent agreement with the literature in the same mass ranges. COSMOS2015 represents a unique, publicly available, valuable resource with which to investigate the evolution of galaxies within their environment back to the earliest stages of the history of the Universe. The COSMOS2015 catalog is distributed via anonymous ftp (ftp://ftp.iap.fr/pub/from_users/hjmcc/COSMOS2015/) and through the usual astronomical archive systems (CDS, ESO Phase 3, IRSA).","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02350v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.02350v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"the-cosmos2015-catalog-exploring-the-1z6","repo_url":"https://github.com/sidd0529/COSMOS_Lens","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"MIT"}}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/1604.02350","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1604.02350","mcp":{"get_harvested_code_for_paper":{"arxiv_id":"1604.02350"}},"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers","read_at":"2026-09-25T09:33:49+00:00","read_at_is":"when the build read Syntology's graph, not when any sample ran","claim":"Per-sample execution status on synthesized fixtures; not a correctness claim about the paper. 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