The ESO-Spitzer Imaging extragalactic Survey (ESIS) II: VIMOS I,z wide field imaging of ELAIS-S1 and selection of distant massive galaxies

Understand

(abridged) The ESIS survey is the optical follow up of the SWIRE/Spitzer in the ELAIS-S1 region of the sky.

• In the era of observational cosmology, the main efforts are focused on the study of galaxy evolution and its environmental dependence.
• Wide area, multiwavelength, extragalactic surveys are needed in order to probe sufficiently large volumes, minimize cosmic variance and find significant numbers of rare objects.
• We present VIMOS I and z band imaging belonging to the ESIS survey.