AGES: The AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey
  The AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (AGES) is a redshift survey covering, in
its standard fields, 7.7 square degrees of the Bootes field of the NOAO Deep
Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS). The final sample consists of 23745 redshifts. There
are well-defined galaxy samples in ten bands (the Bw, R, I, J, K, IRAC 3.6,
4.5, 5.8 and 8.0 micron and MIPS 24 micron bands) to a limiting magnitude of
I<20 mag for spectroscopy. For these galaxies, we obtained 18163 redshifts from
a sample of 35200 galaxies, where random sparse sampling was used to define
statistically complete sub-samples in all ten photometric bands. The median
galaxy redshift is 0.31, and 90% of the redshifts are in the range
0.085<z<0.66. AGN were selected as radio, X-ray, IRAC mid-IR and MIPS 24 micron
sources to fainter limiting magnitudes (I<22.5 mag for point sources).
Redshifts were obtained for 4764 quasars and galaxies with AGN signatures, with
2926, 1718, 605, 119 and 13 above redshifts of 0.5, 1, 2, 3 and 4,
respectively. We detail all the AGES selection procedures and present the
complete spectroscopic redshift catalogs, spectra, and spectral energy
distribution decompositions. The photometric redshift estimates are for all
sources in the AGES samples.
