The North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) is the natural extragalactic deep field location for a wide class of space telescopes, including AKARI, WISE, and the future JWST and SPICA telescopes. We report a detailed analysis of a multi-wavelength extragalactic survey from X-rays (Chandra) to radio (GMRT) in this deep field, including Herschel 100-500 micron imaging and recent ground based SCUBA-2 850 micron mapping from the JCMT Cosmology Legacy Survey.
We identify high redshift galaxy candidates using colour-colour selection techniques, by taking advantage of the four Herschel/SPIRE + JCMT/SCUBA-2 bands, as well as searching for SPIRE drop-outs in the SCUBA-2 data
Our analysis also includes an image stacking analysis, which compares our high redshift candidates with a small sample of other high redshift galaxies, and shows the advantages that the extensive SED coverage available in the NEP field brings.