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The Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (Servs): Survey Definition And Goals, J.-C. Mauduit, M. Lacy, D. Farrah, J. A. Surace, M. Jarvis, S. Oliver, C. Maraston, M. Vaccari, L. Marchetti, G. Zeimann, E. A. Gonzáles-Solares, J. Pforr, A. O. Petric, B. Henriques, P. A. Thomas, J. Afonso, A. Rettura, Grant Wilson, J. T. Falder, J. E. Geach, M. Huynh, R. P. Norrish, N. Seymour, G. T. Richards, S. A. Stanford, D. M. Alexander, R. H. Becker, P. N. Best, L. Bizzocchi, D. Bonfield, N. Castro, A. Cava, S. Chapman, N. Christopher, D. L. Clements, G. Covone, N. Dubois, J. S. Dunlop, E. Dyke, A. Edge, H. C. Ferguson, S. Foucaud, A. Franceschini, R. R. Gal, J. K. Grant, M. Grossi, E. Hatziminaoglou, S. Hickey, J. A. Hodge, J.-S. Huang, R. J. Ivison, M. Kim, O. Lefevre, M. Lehnert, C. J. Lonsdale, L. M. Lubin, R. J. Mclure, H. Messias, A. Martínez-Sansigre, A. M. J. Mortier, D. M. Nielsen, M. Ouchi, G. Parish, I. Perez-Fournon, M. Pierre, S. Rawlings, A. Readhead, S. E. Ridgway, D. Rigopoulou, A. K. Romer, I. G. Roseboom, H. J. A. Rottgering, M. Rowan-Robinson, A. Sajina, C. J. Simpson, I. Smail, G. K. Squires, J. A. Stevens, R. Taylor, M. Trichas, T. Urrutia, E. Van Kampen, A. Verma, C. K. Xu

Grant Wilson

We present the Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS), an 18 square degrees medium-deep survey at 3.6 and 4.5 microns with the post-cryogenic Spitzer Space Telescope to ~2 microJy (AB=23.1) depth of five highly observed astronomical fields (ELAIS-N1, ELAIS-S1, Lockman Hole, Chandra Deep Field South and XMM-LSS). SERVS is designed to enable the study of galaxy evolution as a function of environment from z~5 to the present day, and is the first extragalactic survey both large enough and deep enough to put rare objects such as luminous quasars and galaxy clusters at z>1 into their cosmological context. SERVS is …