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The Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey (GOSSS) is a project that is observing all known Galactic O stars with B < 13 (~2000 objects) in the blue-violet part of the spectrum with R~2500. It also includes two companion surveys (a…

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) aims to map the universe across an unprecedented dynamic range of stellar densities, spanning from extragalactic voids to the crowded Galactic center (e.g. a few stars and galaxies in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jinzhi Lai , Man I Lam , Jianjun Chen , Xin Zhang , Hao Tian , Xiaohan Chen , Jialu Nie , Ming Yang , Chao Liu

We present a high quality multiwavelength (from 0.3 to 8.0 micron) catalog of the large and deep area in the GOODS Southern Field covered by the deep near-IR observations obtained with the ESO VLT. The catalog is entirely based on public…

In preparation for James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a set of cross calibration programs with HST and Spitzer for suitable primary photometric standards and astrometric fields were developed. NICMOS/HST and IRAC/Spitzer photometry…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rosa I. Diaz-Miller

The photometry data base of the second phase of the OGLE microlensing experiment, OGLE-II, is a rich source of information about the kinematics and structure of the Galaxy. In this work we use the OGLE-II proper motion catalogue to identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Shude Mao

We provide classifications for all 143 million non-repeat photometric objects in the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using decision trees trained on 477,068 objects with SDSS spectroscopic data. We demonstrate that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicholas M. Ball , Robert J. Brunner , Adam D. Myers , David Tcheng

Machine learning techniques offer a precious tool box for use within astronomy to solve problems involving so-called big data. They provide a means to make accurate predictions about a particular system without prior knowledge of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-01 J. Elliott , R. S. de Souza , A. Krone-Martins , E. Cameron , E. E. O. Ishida , J. Hilbe

This paper provides a catalogue of stars, quasars, and galaxies for the Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey Data Release 2 (S-PLUS DR2) in the Stripe 82 region. We show that a 12-band filter system (5 Sloan-like and 7 narrow bands)…

We present an optical to near-infrared selected astronomical catalogue covering 1270 deg.$^2$. This is the first attempt to systematically combine data from 23 of the premier extragalactic survey fields - the product of a vast investment of…

A survey that can cover the sky in optical bands over wide fields to faint magnitudes with a fast cadence will enable many of the exciting science opportunities of the next decade. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will have an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 LSST Science Collaboration , Paul A. Abell , Julius Allison , Scott F. Anderson , John R. Andrew , J. Roger P. Angel , Lee Armus , David Arnett , S. J. Asztalos , Tim S. Axelrod , Stephen Bailey , D. R. Ballantyne , Justin R. Bankert , Wayne A. Barkhouse , Jeffrey D. Barr , L. Felipe Barrientos , Aaron J. Barth , James G. Bartlett , Andrew C. Becker , Jacek Becla , Timothy C. Beers , Joseph P. Bernstein , Rahul Biswas , Michael R. Blanton , Joshua S. Bloom , John J. Bochanski , Pat Boeshaar , Kirk D. Borne , Marusa Bradac , W. N. Brandt , Carrie R. Bridge , Michael E. Brown , Robert J. Brunner , James S. Bullock , Adam J. Burgasser , James H. Burge , David L. Burke , Phillip A. Cargile , Srinivasan Chandrasekharan , George Chartas , Steven R. Chesley , You-Hua Chu , David Cinabro , Mark W. Claire , Charles F. Claver , Douglas Clowe , A. J. Connolly , Kem H. Cook , Jeff Cooke , Asantha Cooray , Kevin R. Covey , Christopher S. Culliton , Roelof de Jong , Willem H. de Vries , Victor P. Debattista , Francisco Delgado , Ian P. Dell'Antonio , Saurav Dhital , Rosanne Di Stefano , Mark Dickinson , Benjamin Dilday , S. G. Djorgovski , Gregory Dobler , Ciro Donalek , Gregory Dubois-Felsmann , Josef Durech , Ardis Eliasdottir , Michael Eracleous , Laurent Eyer , Emilio E. Falco , Xiaohui Fan , Christopher D. Fassnacht , Harry C. Ferguson , Yanga R. Fernandez , Brian D. Fields , Douglas Finkbeiner , Eduardo E. Figueroa , Derek B. Fox , Harold Francke , James S. Frank , Josh Frieman , Sebastien Fromenteau , Muhammad Furqan , Gaspar Galaz , A. Gal-Yam , Peter Garnavich , Eric Gawiser , John Geary , Perry Gee , Robert R. Gibson , Kirk Gilmore , Emily A. Grace , Richard F. Green , William J. Gressler , Carl J. Grillmair , Salman Habib , J. S. Haggerty , Mario Hamuy , Alan W. Harris , Suzanne L. Hawley , Alan F. Heavens , Leslie Hebb , Todd J. Henry , Edward Hileman , Eric J. Hilton , Keri Hoadley , J. B. Holberg , Matt J. Holman , Steve B. Howell , Leopoldo Infante , Zeljko Ivezic , Suzanne H. Jacoby , Bhuvnesh Jain , R , Jedicke , M. James Jee , J. Garrett Jernigan , Saurabh W. Jha , Kathryn V. Johnston , R. Lynne Jones , Mario Juric , Mikko Kaasalainen , Styliani , Kafka , Steven M. Kahn , Nathan A. Kaib , Jason Kalirai , Jeff Kantor , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Charles R. Keeton , Richard Kessler , Zoran Knezevic , Adam Kowalski , Victor L. Krabbendam , K. Simon Krughoff , Shrinivas Kulkarni , Stephen Kuhlman , Mark Lacy , Sebastien Lepine , Ming Liang , Amy Lien , Paulina Lira , Knox S. Long , Suzanne Lorenz , Jennifer M. Lotz , R. H. Lupton , Julie Lutz , Lucas M. Macri , Ashish A. Mahabal , Rachel Mandelbaum , Phil Marshall , Morgan May , Peregrine M. McGehee , Brian T. Meadows , Alan Meert , Andrea Milani , Christopher J. Miller , Michelle Miller , David Mills , Dante Minniti , David Monet , Anjum S. Mukadam , Ehud Nakar , Douglas R. Neill , Jeffrey A. Newman , Sergei Nikolaev , Martin Nordby , Paul O'Connor , Masamune Oguri , John Oliver , Scot S. Olivier , Julia K. Olsen , Knut Olsen , Edward W. Olszewski , Hakeem Oluseyi , Nelson D. Padilla , Alex Parker , Joshua Pepper , John R. Peterson , Catherine Petry , Philip A. Pinto , James L. Pizagno , Bogdan Popescu , Andrej Prsa , Veljko Radcka , M. Jordan Raddick , Andrew Rasmussen , Arne Rau , Jeonghee Rho , James E. Rhoads , Gordon T. Richards , Stephen T. Ridgway , Brant E. Robertson , Rok Roskar , Abhijit Saha , Ata Sarajedini , Evan Scannapieco , Terry Schalk , Rafe Schindler , Samuel Schmidt , Sarah Schmidt , Donald P. Schneider , German Schumacher , Ryan Scranton , Jacques Sebag , Lynn G. Seppala , Ohad Shemmer , Joshua D. Simon , M. Sivertz , Howard A. Smith , J. Allyn Smith , Nathan Smith , Anna H. Spitz , Adam Stanford , Keivan G. Stassun , Jay Strader , Michael A. Strauss , Christopher W. Stubbs , Donald W. Sweeney , Alex Szalay , Paula Szkody , Masahiro Takada , Paul Thorman , David E. Trilling , Virginia Trimble , Anthony Tyson , Richard Van Berg , Daniel Vanden Berk , Jake VanderPlas , Licia Verde , Bojan Vrsnak , Lucianne M. Walkowicz , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Sheng Wang , Yun Wang , Michael Warner , Risa H. Wechsler , Andrew A. West , Oliver Wiecha , Benjamin F. Williams , Beth Willman , David Wittman , Sidney C. Wolff , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Przemek Wozniak , Patrick Young , Andrew Zentner , Hu Zhan

We present the Galactic model parameters for thin disc estimated by Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data of 14 940 stars with apparent magnitudes $16<g_{o}\leq21$ in six intermediate latitude fields in the first Galactic quadrant.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bilir , S. Karaali , S. Ak , E. Yaz , E. Hamzaoglu

We present the gMOSS (Galaxies of Medium-band One-meter Schmidt telescope Survey) catalog of $\sim$ 19,000 galaxies in 20 filters (4 broadband SDSS and 16 medium-band filters). We observed 2.386 $\mathrm{deg^2}$ on the central part of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-08 A. Grokhovskaya , S. N. Dodonov , T. A. Movsessian , S. S. Kotov

We present a catalogue of 22755 objects with slitless, optical, Hubble Space Telescope (HST) spectroscopy from the Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS). The data cover $\sim$220 sq. arcmin to 7-orbit ($\sim$10 ks) depth in 20…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-12 L. E. Abramson , G. B. Brammer , K. B. Schmidt , T. Treu , T. Morishita , X. Wang , B. Vulcani , A. Henry

Galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing (GGSL) is a powerful probe for the formation and evolution of galaxies and cosmology, while the sample size of GGSLs leads to considerable uncertainties and potential bias. The China Space Station…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-31 Xiaoyue Cao , Ran Li , Nan Li , Rui Li , Yun Chen , Keyi Ding , Huanyuan Shan , Hu Zhan , Xin Zhang , Wei Du , Shuo Cao

Thanks to its spatial resolution the ESA/Gaia space mission offers a unique opportunity to discover new multiply-imaged quasars and to study the already known lensed systems at sub-milliarcsecond astrometric precisions. In this paper, we…

The Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) has mapped out the low-redshift Universe down to $K_S\sim14$ mag. As its near-infrared photometry primarily probes the featureless Rayleigh-Jeans tail of galaxy spectral energy distributions,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 Mubdi Rahman , Brice Ménard , Ryan Scranton

We use the deepest and the most comprehensive photometric data currently available for GOODS-South galaxies to measure their photometric redshifts. The photometry includes VLT/VIMOS (U-band), HST/ACS (F435W, F606W, F775W, and F850LP bands),…

We study the photometric properties of stars in the data archive of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), the prime aim being to understand the photometric calibration over the entire data set. It is confirmed that the photometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Masataka Fukugita , Naoki Yasuda , Mamoru Doi , James E. Gunn , Donald G. York