CAVITY: Calar Alto Void Integral-field Treasury surveY: I. First public data release

García-Benito, Rubén; Jiménez, Andoni; Sánchez-Menguiano, Laura; Ruiz-Lara, Tomás; Duarte Puertas, Salvador; Domínguez-Gómez, Jesús; Bidaran, Bahar; Torres-Ríos, Gloria; Argudo-Fernández, María; Espada, Daniel; Pérez, Isabel; Verley, Simon; Conrado, Ana M.; Florido, Estrella; Rodríguez, Mónica I.; Zurita, Almudena; Alcázar-Laynez, Manuel; De Daniloff, Simon B.; Lisenfeld, Ute; van de Weygaert, Rien; Courtois, Hélène M.; Falcón-Barroso, Jesús; Ferré-Mateu, Anna; Galbany, Lluís; González Delgado, Rosa M.; del Moral-Castro, Ignacio; Peletier, Reynier F.; Román, Javier; Sánchez, Sebastián F.; Sánchez-Alarcón, Pablo M.; Sánchez-Blázquez, Patricia; Villalba-González, Pedro; Azzaro, Marco; Blazek, Martín; Fernández, Alba; Gallego, Julia; Góngora, Samuel; Guijarro, Ana; de Guindos, Enrique; Hermelo, Israel; Hernández, Ricardo; de Juan, Enrique; Vico Linares, José Ignacio
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Astronomy and Astrophysics

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2024
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The Calar Alto Void Integral-field Treasury surveY (CAVITY) is a legacy project aimed at characterising the population of galaxies inhabiting voids, which are the most under-dense regions of the cosmic web, located in the Local Universe. This paper describes the first public data release (DR1) of CAVITY, comprising science-grade optical data cubes for the initial 100 out of a total of ~300 galaxies in the Local Universe (0.005 < z < 0.050). These data were acquired using the integral-field spectrograph PMAS/PPak mounted on the 3.5m telescope at the Calar Alto observatory. The DR1 galaxy sample encompasses diverse characteristics in the color-magnitude space, morphological type, stellar mass, and gas ionisation conditions, providing a rich resource for addressing key questions in galaxy evolution through spatially resolved spectroscopy. The galaxies in this study were observed with the low-resolution V500 set-up, spanning the wavelength range 3745-7500 Å, with a spectral resolution of 6.0 Å (FWHM). Here, we describe the data reduction and characteristics and data structure of the CAVITY datasets essential for their scientific utilisation, highlighting such concerns as vignetting effects, as well as the identification of bad pixels and management of spatially correlated noise. We also provide instructions for accessing the CAVITY datasets and associated ancillary data through the project's dedicated database.
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