Field selection

Fields were chosen to meet most or all of the following criteria:

  1. Previous (long) observations with (expensive) space telescopes
  2. Low 100 micron emission (SFD), reddening, and NH (Burstein-Heiles)
  3. No (or few) bright sources known (optical/radio)
  4. High Galactic latitude ($\vert b\vert>30$) to reduce stellar density
  5. Southern accessibility ($dec<10$ , preferably $\vert dec\vert>5$ for ALMA)

Field choices

Field RA DEC Galactic Ecliptic E(B-V) 100 um (MJy/sr) NH Constellation
E-HDFS 22:32:35.6 -60:47:12 (328,-49) (311,-47) 0.03 1.37 1.6E+20 Indus
E-CDFS 03:32:29.0 -27:48:47 (224,-54) (41,-45) 0.01 0.40 1.6E+20 Fornax
SDSS 1030+05 10:30:27.1 05:24:55 (239,50) (157,-4) 0.02 1.01 2.3E+20 Leo
1256+01 12:55:40 01:07:00 (306,64) (192,7) 0.02 0.81 1.6E+20 Virgo