Palomar-QUEST: A case study in designing sky surveys in the VO era
Abstract
The advent of wide-area multicolour synoptic sky surveys is leading to data sets unprecedented in size, complexity and data throughput. VO technology offers a way to exploit these to the full but requires changes in design philosophy. The Palomar-QUEST survey is a major new survey being undertaken by Caltech, Yale, JPL and Indiana University to repeatedly observe 1/3 of the sky (~15000 sq. deg. between -27 < Dec <27 in seven passbands. Utilising the 48-inch Oschin Schmidt Telescope at the Palomar Observatory with the 112-CCD QUEST camera covering the full 4 x 4 sq. deg. field of view, it will generate \~1TB of data per month. In this paper, we review the design of QUEST as a VO resource, a federated data set and an exemplar of VO standards.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0402616,
title = {Palomar-QUEST: A case study in designing sky surveys in the VO era},
author = {Matthew J. Graham and Roy Williams and S. G. Djorgovski and Ashish Mahabal and Charles Baltay and Dave Rabinowitz and Anne Bauer and Jeff Snyder and Nick Morgan and Peter Andrews and Alexander S. Szalay and Robert J. Brunner and Jim Musser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0402616},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure, published in ADASS XIII proceedings