Deep surveys of the obscured universe: GOODS Original Research Article

Astronomy in the next decade will be dominated by multi-wavelength surveys which address a wide variety of scientific issues including galaxy formation and evolution, AGN structure and demographics and galactic structure. The great observatories origins deep survey (GOODS) is a deep multi-wavelength public survey of two of the deepest fields ever studied, HDF-N and CDF-S, covering approximately 330 arcmin2. It comprises a SIRTF legacy program, an HST treasury program and the deepest X-ray observations with Chandra and XMM-Newton. Furthermore, GOODS includes extensive follow-up studies with several ground-based facilities. It is thus clear that GOODS will generate the deepest, largest and most uniform panchromatic data-set to study the distant universe. In this paper I give a short review of the current status of the GOODS survey, concentrating on issues related to the AGN research.