The SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey. Paper I: Introduction and Description
Astrophysics
2016-01-13 v1
Abstract
In this, the first in a series of three papers concerning the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey (SSS), we give an introduction and user guide to the survey programme. We briefly describe other wide-field surveys and compare with our own. We give examples of the data, and make a comparison of the accuracies of the various image parameters available with those from the other surveys providing similar data; we show that the SSS database and interface offer advantages over these surveys. Some science applications of the data are also described and some limitations discussed. The series of three papers constitutes a comprehensive description and user guide for the SSS.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0108286,
title = {The SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey. Paper I: Introduction and Description},
author = {Nigel Hambly and Harvey MacGillivray and Mike Read and Sue Tritton and Eve Thomson and Dennis Kelly and David Morgan and Rob Smith and Simon Driver and John Williamson and Quentin Parker and Mike Hawkins and Perry Williams and Andy Lawrence},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0108286},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
18 pages, 10 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS