SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey: a valuable resource for stellar astrophysics
Abstract
The Australian National University's SkyMapper telescope is amongst the first of a new generation of dedicated wide-field survey telescopes. Featuring a 5.7 square deg field-of-view Cassegrain imager and 268 Mega-pixel CCD array, its primary goal will be to undertake the Southern Sky Survey: a six color (uvgriz), six-epoch digital record of the entire southern sky. The survey will provide photometry for objects between 8th and 23rd magnitude with a global photometric accuracy of 0.03 magnitudes and astrometry to 50 mas. In this contribution we introduce the SkyMapper facility, the survey data products and outline a variety of case-studies in stellar astrophysics for which SkyMapper will have high impact.
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@article{arxiv.0806.1770,
title = {SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey: a valuable resource for stellar astrophysics},
author = {Simon J. Murphy and Stefan C. Keller and Brian Schmidt and Patrick Tisserand and Michael Bessell and Paul Francis and Gary Da Costa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.1770},
year = {2008}
}
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5 pages, 4 figures. v2: corrected author list. To appear in proceedings of the 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics, Phuket, 2008