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Extended Groth Strip

(EGS)
(region of sky searched for distant galaxies)

The Extended Groth Strip (EGS) is a name given to a survey field that was selected for searches for high-redshift galaxies. Among the surveys using it have been an HST-based survey and AEGIS. The region is rectangular, but with edges not aligned with equatorial coordinates (angled more-or-less 45 degrees, I believe aligned with galactic coordinates). Some discoveries are commonly cited with names using the prefix EGS. Cited:

The Extended Groth Strip is an extended version of the Groth Strip, a 140 square arcminute region around coordinates J141700+523000, which was used for the Groth Strip Survey (GSS).


(sky,galaxies,survey field)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Groth_Strip
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=NAME%20EXTENDED%20GROTH%20STRIP
https://esahubble.org/images/opo0706c/
https://aegis.ucolick.org/google_sky.html
Coordinates:EGS
J141900+524800
PrefixExample  
EGSEGS-zs8-1 

Referenced by pages:
AEGIS
CEERS
DEEP2
Groth Strip

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