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The paper presents the third data release of Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP), a wide-field multi-band imaging survey with the Subaru 8.2m telescope. HSC-SSP has three survey layers (Wide, Deep, and UltraDeep) with…

The Stellar Abundances and Galactic Evolution Survey (SAGES) is a multi-band survey that covers the northern sky area of ~12000 deg2. Nanshan One-meter Wide-field Telescope (NOWT) of Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) carried out…

The Stellar Abundances and Galactic Evolution Survey (SAGES) of the northern sky is a specifically-designed multi-band photometric survey aiming to provide reliable stellar parameters with accuracy comparable to those from low-resolution…

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in August 2008, with new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution, measurements of the baryon oscillation feature in the clustering of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 III collaboration , Hiroaki Aihara , Carlos Allende Prieto , Deokkeun An , Scott F. Anderson , Éric Aubourg , Eduardo Balbinot , Timothy C. Beers , Andreas A. Berlind , Steven J. Bickerton , Dmitry Bizyaev , Michael R. Blanton , John J. Bochanski , Adam S. Bolton , Jo Bovy , W. N. Brandt , J. Brinkmann , Peter J. Brown , Joel R. Brownstein , Nicolas G. Busca , Heather Campbell , Michael A. Carr , Yanmei Chen , Cristina Chiappini , Johan Comparat , Natalia Connolly , Marina Cortes , Rupert A. C. Croft , Antonio J. Cuesta , Luiz N. da Costa , James R. A. Davenport , Kyle Dawson , Saurav Dhital , Anne Ealet , Garrett L. Ebelke , Edward M. Edmondson , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Stephanie Escoffier , Massimiliano Esposito , Michael L. Evans , Xiaohui Fan , Bruno Femení a Castellá , Andreu Font-Ribera , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Jian Ge , Bruce A. Gillespie , G. Gilmore , Jonay I. González Hernández , J. Richard Gott , Andrew Gould , Eva K. Grebel , James E. Gunn , Jean-Christophe Hamilton , Paul Harding , David W. Harris , Suzanne L. Hawley , Frederick R. Hearty , Shirley Ho , David W. Hogg , Jon A. Holtzman , Klaus Honscheid , Naohisa Inada , Inese I. Ivans , Linhua Jiang , Jennifer A. Johnson , Cathy Jordan , Wendell P. Jordan , Eyal A. Kazin , David Kirkby , Mark A. Klaene , G. R. Knapp , Jean-Paul Kneib , C. S. Kochanek , Lars Koesterke , Juna A. Kollmeier , Richard G. Kron , Hubert Lampeitl , Dustin Lang , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Young Sun Lee , Yen-Ting Lin , Daniel C. Long , Craig P. Loomis , Sara Lucatello , Britt Lundgren , Robert H. Lupton , Zhibo Ma , Nicholas MacDonald , Suvrath Mahadevan , Marcio A. G. Maia , Martin Makler , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Rachel Mandelbaum , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Margala , Karen L. Masters , Cameron K. McBride , Peregrine M. McGehee , Ian D. McGreer , Brice Ménard , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Heather L. Morrison , F. Mullally , Demitri Muna , Jeffrey A. Munn , Hitoshi Murayama , Adam D. Myers , Tracy Naugle , Angelo Fausti Neto , Duy Cuong Nguyen , Robert C. Nichol , Robert W. O'Connell , Ricardo L. C. Ogando , Matthew D. Olmstead , Daniel J. Oravetz , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , Parul Pandey , Isabelle Pâris , Will J. Percival , Patrick Petitjean , Robert Pfaffenberger , Janine Pforr , Stefanie Phleps , Christophe Pichon , Matthew M. Pieri , Francisco Prada , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , M. Jordan Raddick , Beatriz H. F. Ramos , Céline Reylé , James Rich , Gordon T. Richards , Hans-Walter Rix , Annie C. Robin , Helio J. Rocha-Pinto , Constance M. Rockosi , Natalie A. Roe , Emmanuel Rollinde , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Bruno M. Rossetto , Ariel G. Sánchez , Conor Sayres , David J. Schlegel , Katharine J. Schlesinger , Sarah J. Schmidt , Donald P. Schneider , Erin Sheldon , Yiping Shu , Jennifer Simmerer , Audrey E. Simmons , Thirupathi Sivarani , Stephanie A. Snedden , Jennifer S. Sobeck , Matthias Steinmetz , Michael A. Strauss , Alexander S. Szalay , Masayuki Tanaka , Aniruddha R. Thakar , Daniel Thomas , Jeremy L. Tinker , Benjamin M. Tofflemire , Rita Tojeiro , Christy A. Tremonti , Jan Vandenberg , M. Vargas Magaña , Licia Verde , Nicole P. Vogt , David A. Wake , Ji Wang , Benjamin A. Weaver , David H. Weinberg , Martin White , Simon D. M. White , Brian Yanny , Naoki Yasuda , Christophe Yeche , Idit Zehavi

Observations, analysis techniques and photometric properties of a multi-narrowband survey of a 20 square-degree area of sky at +33 degrees declination are described. The survey is conducted with the 3-meter liquid-mirror telescope of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Hickson , Mark K. Mulrooney

Weak gravitational lensing has become a widely used effect to characterise the dark-matter distribution on large scales in the Universe by measuring galaxy ellipticities and their statistical correlations. We present the first weak…

This paper presents the first public data release of the S-PLUS Ultra-Short Survey (USS), a photometric survey with short exposure times, covering approximately 9300 deg$^{2}$ of the Southern sky. The USS utilizes the Javalambre 12-band…

We present the COSMOS2015 catalog which contains precise photometric redshifts and stellar masses for more than half a million objects over the 2deg$^{2}$ COSMOS field. Including new $YJHK_{\rm s}$ images from the UltraVISTA-DR2 survey,…

Using the USNO CCD Astrograph all-sky Catalog (UCAC2), we measure the mean proper motion of the two Magellanic Clouds. Appropriately selected LMC populations show a proper motion (<\mu RA>, <\mu DEC>) ~ (+0.84,+4.32) that is significantly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Momany , S. Zaggia

The results of 3,989 intensified CCD observations of double stars, made with the 26-inch refractor of the U.S. Naval Observatory, are presented. Each observation of a system represents a combination of over two thousand short-exposure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf , Sean E. Urban , Jordan D. Josties

In this study, we present the construction of a new proper motion catalog utilizing the photometric data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) imaging surveys, with a median time baseline…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-18 Yun-Ao Xiao , Hu Zou , Xin Xu , Lu Feng , Wei-Jian Guo , Wen-Xiong Li , Shu-Fei Liu , Zhi-Xia Shen , Gaurav Singh , Ji-Peng Sui , Jia-Li Wang , Sui-Jian Xue

We present mean proper motions and membership probabilities of individual stars for optically visible open clusters, which have been determined using data from the UCAC5 catalog. This follows our previous studies with the UCAC2 and UCAC4…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 W. S. Dias , H. Monteiro , M. Assafin

We present near-infrared parallax and proper motion astrometry for 74 L-dwarfs and 99 T-dwarfs, as single objects or in binary systems, obtained with the ASTROCAM astrometric imager on the USNO, Flagstaff Station 1.55-m telescope over two…

We present the MARD-Y3 catalog of between 1086 and 2171 galaxy clusters (52\% and 65\% new) produced using multi-component matched filter (MCMF) followup in 5000\,deg$^2$ of DES-Y3 optical data of the $\sim$20000 overlapping 2RXS X-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Matthias Klein , Sebastian Grandis , Joseph Mohr , Maria Paulus , the DES Collaboration

We present a catalog of 345,000 stars with proper motions \mu > 20 mas/yr and magnitudes r' <20, drawn from the intersection of the SDSS Data Release One and USNO-B. We first use SDSS quasars to correct the proper motions in each of the two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-01 Andrew Gould , Juna A. Kollmeier

The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fiber-fed optical spectrograph, a new near-infrared…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-07 Shadab Alam , Franco D. Albareti , Carlos Allende Prieto , F. Anders , Scott F. Anderson , Brett H. Andrews , Eric Armengaud , Éric Aubourg , Stephen Bailey , Julian E. Bautista , Rachael L. Beaton , Timothy C. Beers , Chad F. Bender , Andreas A. Berlind , Florian Beutler , Vaishali Bhardwaj , Jonathan C. Bird , Dmitry Bizyaev , Cullen H. Blake , Michael R. Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , John J. Bochanski , Adam S. Bolton , Jo Bovy , A. Shelden Bradley , W. N. Brandt , D. E. Brauer , J. Brinkmann , Peter J. Brown , Joel R. Brownstein , Angela Burden , Etienne Burtin , Nicolás G. Busca , Zheng Cai , Diego Capozzi , Aurelio Carnero Rosell , Ricardo Carrera , Yen-Chi Chen , Cristina Chiappini , S. Drew Chojnowski , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Nicolas Clerc , Johan Comparat , Kevin Covey , Rupert A. C. Croft , Antonio J. Cuesta , Katia Cunha , Luiz N. da Costa , Nicola Da Rio , James R. A. Davenport , Kyle S. Dawson , Nathan De Lee , Timothée Delubac , Rohit Deshpande , Letícia Dutra-Ferreira , Tom Dwelly , Anne Ealet , Garrett L. Ebelke , Edward M. Edmondson , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Stephanie Escoffier , Massimiliano Esposito , Xiaohui Fan , Emma Fernández-Alvar , Diane Feuillet , Nurten Filiz Ak , Hayley Finley , Alexis Finoguenov , Kevin Flaherty , Scott W. Fleming , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jonathan Foster , Peter M. Frinchaboy , J. G. Galbraith-Frew , D. A. García-Hernández , Ana E. García Pérez , Patrick Gaulme , Jian Ge , R. Génova-Santos , Luan Ghezzi , Bruce A. Gillespie , Léo Girardi , Daniel Goddard , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Jonay I. González Hernández , Eva K. Grebel , Jan Niklas Grieb , Nolan Grieves , James E. Gunn , Hong Guo , Paul Harding , Sten Hasselquist , Suzanne L. Hawley , Michael Hayden , Fred R. Hearty , Shirley Ho , David W. Hogg , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Jon A. Holtzman , Klaus Honscheid , Joseph Huehnerhoff , Linhua Jiang , Jennifer A. Johnson , Karen Kinemuchi , David Kirkby , Francisco Kitaura , Mark A. Klaene , Jean-Paul Kneib , Xavier P. Koenig , Charles R. Lam , Ting-Wen Lan , Dustin Lang , Pierre Laurent , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Alexie Leauthaud , Khee-Gan Lee , Young Sun Lee , Timothy C. Licquia , Jian Liu , Daniel C. Long , Martín López-Corredoira , Diego Lorenzo-Oliveira , Sara Lucatello , Britt Lundgren , Robert H. Lupton , Claude E. Mack , Suvrath Mahadevan , Marcio A. G. Maia , Steven R. Majewski , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , A. Manchado , Marc Manera , Qingqing Mao , Claudia Maraston , Robert C. Marchwinski , Daniel Margala , Sarah L. Martell , Marie Martig , Karen L. Masters , Cameron K. McBride , Peregrine M. McGehee , Ian D. McGreer , Richard G. McMahon , Brice Ménard , Marie-Luise Menzel , Andrea Merloni , Szabolcs Mészáros , Adam A. Miller , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Hironao Miyatake , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Surhud More , Xan Morice-Atkinson , Heather L. Morrison , Demitri Muna , Adam D. Myers , Jeffrey A. Newman , Mark Neyrinck , Duy Cuong Nguyen , Robert C. Nichol , David L. Nidever , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Sebastián E. Nuza , Julia E. O'Connell , Robert W. O'Connell , Ross O'Connell , Ricardo L. C. Ogando , Matthew D. Olmstead , Audrey E. Oravetz , Daniel J. Oravetz , Keisuke Osumi , Russell Owen , Deborah L. Padgett , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Martin Paegert , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , John K. Parejko , Changbom Park , Isabelle Pâris , Petchara Pattarakijwanich , M. Pellejero-Ibanez , Joshua Pepper , Will J. Percival , Ismael Pérez-Fournon , Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols , Patrick Petitjean , Matthew M. Pieri , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Gustavo F. Porto de Mello , Francisco Prada , Abhishek Prakash , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , M. Jordan Raddick , Mubdi Rahman , Beth A. Reid , James Rich , Hans-Walter Rix , Annie C. Robin , Constance M. Rockosi , Thaíse S. Rodrigues , Sergio Rodríguez-Rottes , Natalie A. Roe , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Graziano Rossi , John J. Ruan , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , Eli S. Rykoff , Salvador Salazar-Albornoz , Mara Salvato , Lado Samushia , Ariel G. Sánchez , Basílio Santiago , Conor Sayres , Ricardo P. Schiavon , David J. Schlegel , Sarah J. Schmidt , Donald P. Schneider , Mathias Schultheis , Axel D. Schwope , C. G. Scóccola , Kris Sellgren , Hee-Jong Seo , Neville Shane , Yue Shen , Matthew Shetrone , Yiping Shu , Thirupathi Sivarani , M. F. Skrutskie , Anže Slosar , Verne V. Smith , Flávia Sobreira , Keivan G. Stassun , Matthias Steinmetz , Michael A. Strauss , Alina Streblyanska , Molly E. C. Swanson , Jonathan C. Tan , Jamie Tayar , Ryan C. Terrien , Aniruddha R. Thakar , Daniel Thomas , Benjamin A. Thompson , Jeremy L. Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Nicholas W. Troup , Mariana Vargas-Magaña , Jose A. Vazquez , Licia Verde , Matteo Viel , Nicole P. Vogt , David A. Wake , Ji Wang , Benjamin A. Weaver , David H. Weinberg , Benjamin J. Weiner , Martin White , John C. Wilson , John P. Wisniewski , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Christophe Yèche , Donald G. York , Nadia L. Zakamska , O. Zamora , Gail Zasowski , Idit Zehavi , Gong-Bo Zhao , Zheng Zheng , Xu Zhou , Zhimin Zhou , Guangtun Zhu , Hu Zou

This optical catalogue combines the all-sky USNO-B1.0/A1.0 and most-sky APM catalogues, plus overlays of SDSS optical data, into a single all-sky map presented in a sparse binary format which is easily downloaded at 9Gb zipped. Total count…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 Eric Wim Flesch

We present the third data release of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS-DR3). The survey images cover 88% of the northern sky and were created from 12,950 hrs of data (18.6 PB) accumulated over 10.5 years. The images were produced…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-19 T. W. Shimwell , M. J. Hardcastle , C. Tasse , A. Drabent , A. Botteon , W. L. Williams , P. N. Best , H. J. A. Röttgering , M. Brüggen , G. Brunetti , J. R. Callingham , K. T. Chyży , J. E. Conway , F. De Gasperin , M. Haverkorn , C. Horellou , N. Jackson , G. K. Miley , L. K. Morabito , R. Morganti , S. P. O'Sullivan , D. J. Schwarz , D. J. B. Smith , R. J. van Weeren , H. K. Vedantham , G. J. White , A. Ahmadi , L. Alegre , M. Arias , B. Asabere , B. Bahr-Kalus , B. Barkus , M. Bilicki , L. Böhme , M. Brentjens , M. Brienza , D. J. Bomans , A. Bonafede , M. Bonato , E. Bonnassieux , J. M. Boxelaar , S. Camera , R. Cassano , J. Chilufya , M. Cianfaglione , J. H. Croston , V. Cuciti , P. Dabhade , E. De Rubeis , J. M. G. H. J. de Jong , D. Dallacasa , R. J. Dettmar , K. J. Duncan , G. Di Gennaro , H. W. Edler , C. Groeneveld , G. Gürkan , M. Hajduk , C. L. Hale , V. Heesen , D. N. Hoang , M. Hoeft , H. Holties , M. A. Horton , M. Iacobelli , M. Jamrozy , M. J. Jarvis , V. Jelic , M. Kadler , R. Kondapally , M. Kunert-Bajraszewska , M. Loose , M. Magliocchetti , K. Małek , C. Manzano , J. P. McKean , M. Mevius , B. Mingo , A. Miskolczi , A. Misra , J. Moldón , D. G. Nair , S. J. Nakoneczny , E. Orru , M. Pashapour-Ahmadabadi , T. Pasini , J. Petley , J. C. S. Pierce , I. Prandoni , D. Rafferty , K. Rajpurohit , C. J. Riseley , I. D. Roberts , S. Sethi , A. Shulevski , M. Stein , C. Stuardi , F. Sweijen , S. ter Veen , R. Timmerman , M. Vaccari , S. Wijnholds

We present refined coordinates and proper motion data for the high proper motion (HPM) stars in the Luyten Half-Second (LHS) catalogue. The positional uncertainty in the original Luyten catalogue is typically >10" and is often >30". We have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gaspar A. Bakos , Kailash C. Sahu , Peter Nemeth

Absolute proper motions are determined for stars and galaxies to V=17.5 over a 450 square-degree area that encloses both Magellanic Clouds. The proper motions are based on photographic and CCD observations of the Yale/San Juan Southern…