Spitzer Observations of Abell 1763. I. Infrared and Optical Photometry

We present a photometric analysis of the galaxy cluster Abell 1763 at visible and infrared wavelengths. Included are fully reduced images in r', J, H, and Ks obtained using the Palomar 200in telescope, as well as the IRAC and MIPS images from Spitzer. The cluster is covered out to approximately 3 virial radii with deep 24 Delta *mm imaging (a 5 Delta *s depth of 0.2 mJy). This same field of ~40' X 40' is covered in all four IRAC bands as well as the longer wavelength MIPS bands (70 and 160 Delta *mm). The r' imaging covers ~0.8 deg2 down to 25.5 mag, and overlaps with most of the MIPS field of view. The J, H, and Ks images cover the cluster core and roughly half of the filament galaxies, which extend toward the neighboring cluster, Abell 1770. This first, in a series of papers on Abell 1763, discusses the data reduction methods and source extraction techniques used for each data set. We present catalogs of infrared sources (with 24 and/or 70 Delta *mm emission) and their corresponding emission in the optical (u', g', r', i', z'), and near- to far-IR (J, H, Ks , IRAC, and MIPS 160 Delta *mm). We provide the catalogs and reduced images to the community through the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive.