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The Ultraviolet Near Infrared Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS) is a photometric survey in the northern sky. The quality of the data in the $r$ band provides precise shape measurements to measure the growth of structures using cosmic shear.…

We present an atlas of full-scan spectra from the Short-Wavelength Spectrometer (SWS) aboard the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) after reprocessing and improving an earlier version published 22 years ago. The SWS spectra cover the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 D. R. Mizuno , T. A. Kuchar , Kathleen E. Kraemer , G. C. Sloan , Samantha Greene , Elianna Cohen , Holly Branco

Technical description of the new project called All Sky Automated Survey and results of the tests of our prototype instrument are presented. The ultimate goal of this project is photometric monitoring of the large area of the sky with fully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pojmanski

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), the next-generation optical imaging survey sited at Cerro Pachon in Chile, will provide an unprecedented database of astronomical measurements. The LSST design, with an 8.4m (6.7m effective)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Željko Ivezić , Andrew J. Connolly , Mario Jurić

We describe the equipment, observational method and reduction procedure of an absolutely calibrated radio continuum survey of the South Celestial Hemisphere at a frequency of 1420 MHz. These observations cover the area 0h < R.A. < 24h for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. C. Testori , P. Reich , J. A. Bava , F. R. Colomb , E. E. Hurrel , J. J. Larrarte , W. Reich , A. J. Sanz

We investigate the emission of sub-millimetre-wave radiation from galaxies in a 165 square arcminute region surrounding the Hubble Deep Field North. The data were obtained from dedicated observing runs from our group and others using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Borys , S. C. Chapman , M. Halpern , D. Scott

The Galactic All-Sky Survey is a survey of Galactic atomic hydrogen emission in the southern sky observed with the Parkes 64-m Radio Telescope. The first data release (GASS I) concerned survey goals and observing techniques, the second…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-10 Peter M. W. Kalberla , Urmas Haud

The eROSITA X-ray telescope on board the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) spacecraft observed the field of the UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey (UDS) in August-September 2019, during its flight to Sun-Earth L2 point. The resulting eROSITA UDS (or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-22 R. Krivonos , M. Gilfanov , P. Medvedev , S. Sazonov , R. Sunyaev

HectoMAP is a dense redshift survey of 95,403 galaxies based primarily on MMT spectroscopy with a median redshift $z = 0.345$. The survey covers 54.64 square degrees in a 1.5$^\circ$ wide strip across the northern sky centered at a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Jubee Sohn , Margaret J. Geller , Ho Seong Hwang , Daniel G. Fabricant , Yousuke Utsumi , Ivana Damjanov

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10 meter telescope operating at mm wavelengths. It has recently completed a three-band survey covering 2500 sq. degrees. One of the survey's main goals is to detect galaxy clusters using Sunyaev-Zeldovich…

The Smallest Scale of Hierarchy (SSH) survey is an ongoing strategic large program at the Large Binocular Telescope, aimed at the detection of faint stellar streams and satellites around 45 late-type dwarf galaxies located in the Local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 F. Annibali , G. Beccari , M. Bellazzini , M. Tosi , F. Cusano , D. Paris , M. Cignoni , L. Ciotti , C. Nipoti , E. Sacchi

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10 m diameter, wide-field, offset Gregorian telescope with a 966-pixel, multi-color, millimeter-wave, bolometer camera. It is located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station in Antarctica. The design of…

We exploit the synergy between low-resolution spectroscopy and photometric redshifts to study environmental effects on galaxy evolution in slitless spectroscopic surveys from space. As a test case, we consider the future Euclid Deep survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 O. Cucciati , F. Marulli , A. Cimatti , A. I. Merson , P. Norberg , L. Pozzetti , C. M. Baugh , E. Branchini

With modern large scale spectroscopic surveys, such as the SDSS and LSS-GAC, Galactic astronomy has entered the era of millions of stellar spectra. Taking advantage of the huge spectroscopic database, we propose to use a "standard pair"…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Haibo Yuan , Xiaowei Liu , Maosheng Xiang , Zhiying Huo , Huihua Zhang , Yang Huang , Huawei Zhang

The SCUBA local universe galaxy survey is the first systematic survey of the local universe at submillimetre wavelengths. We have observed ~200 galaxies from the IRAS bright galaxy catalogue and the CfA optical redshift survey. The IRAS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Dunne , S. A. Eales

We present the design and performance of the multi-object fiber spectrographs for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and their upgrade for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). Originally commissioned in Fall 1999 on the…

The Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is a massively-multiplexed fiber-fed optical and near-infrared 3-arm spectrograph (N_fiber=2400, 380<lambda<1260nm, 1.3 degree diameter FoV), offering unique opportunities in survey astronomy. Here…

This paper belongs to a series presenting the WIde Field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey (WINGS). The WINGS project has collected wide-field, optical (B,V) and near-infrared (J,K) imaging, as well as medium resolution spectroscopy of galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Omizzolo , G. Fasano , D. Reverte Paya , C. De Santis , A. Grado , D. Bettoni , B. Poggianti , M. D'Onofrio , A. Moretti , J. Varela , J. Fritz , M. Gullieuszik , A. Cava , A. Grazian , M. Moles

The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) is a new galaxy cluster survey designed to provide a large sample of optically selected 0.1$<$z$<$1.4 clusters. The planned survey data are 100 square degrees of two color ($R$ and $z'$) imaging, with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael D. Gladders , H. K. C. Yee

We present a data-driven technique to analyze multifrequency images from upcoming cosmological surveys mapping large sky area. Using full information from the data at the two-point level, our method can simultaneously constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Yun-Ting Cheng , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Dore