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We describe DPOSS, a new digital survey of the northern sky, based on the POSS-II photographic sky atlas. The survey covers the entire sky north of delta = -3 deg in 3 bands, calibrated to the Gunn $gri$ system, reaching to equivalent…

Imaging at hard X-ray energies (~10-600 keV) over very large fields of view (~60 deg per telescope) is required to conduct a high sensitivity all-sky and all-time survey for black holes. The proposed Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Grindlay , J. Hong

The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) is a new wide-field legacy imaging survey in the northern Galactic cap using the 2.3m Bok telescope. The survey will cover about 5400 deg$^2$ in the $g$ and $r$ bands, and the expected 5$\sigma$ depths…

The Wide-Area VISTA Extragalactic Survey (WAVES) on the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) includes two flux-limited subsurveys with very high (95\%) completeness requirements: Wide over $\sim\!1200$ deg$^2$ and Deep over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 G. Kaur , M. Bilicki , S. Bellstedt , E. Tempel , W. A. Hellwing , I. Baldry , B. Bandi , S. Barsanti , S. Driver , N. Guerra-Varas , B. Holwerda , C. Lagos , J. Loveday , A. Robotham

Peculiar velocities arise from gravitational instability, and thus are linked to the surrounding distribution of matter. In order to understand the motion of the Local Group with respect to the Cosmic Microwave Background, a deep all-sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Guilhem Lavaux , Michael J. Hudson

[Abridged] To effectively investigate galaxy formation and evolution, it is of paramount importance to exploit homogeneous data for large samples of galaxies in different environments. The WINGS (WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey)…

We report on the results of an optical spectroscopic survey at high Galactic latitude (b\geq30{\deg}) of a sample of WISE-selected targets, grouped by WISE W1 ({\lambda}_eff = 3.4 \mum) flux, which we use to characterize the sources WISE…

This article describes the assembly of an optical (RGB) all-sky mosaic image with an image scale of 36 arcsec/pixel, a limiting magnitude of approx. 14 mag and an 18 bit dynamic range. Using a portable low-cost system, 70 fields (each…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Axel Mellinger

We present a comprehensive 3D dust reddening map covering the entire Milky Way, constructed by combining reddening estimates based on LAMOST low-resolution spectra (E(B$-$V)$_{\rm LAMOST}$) with those derived from $Gaia$ XP spectra…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-10 Tao Wang , Haibo Yuan , Bingqiu Chen , Maosheng Xiang , Ruoyi Zhang , Bowen Huang , Hongrui Gu , Shuaicong Wang , Jiawei Li

We present the techniques and early results of our program to measure the luminosity function for White Dwarfs in the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey. Our survey covers over three quarters of the sky to a mean depth of I~19.2, and finds ~9,500…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 N. R. Rowell , N. C. Hambly , P. Bergeron

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) will be unprecedented in its ability to probe exceptionally large cosmic volumes to relatively faint optical limits. Primarily designed for the study of comparatively low redshift (z<2) galaxies with the aim of…

In an earlier study we reported nearly 100 previously unknown dusty debris disks around Hipparcos main sequence stars within 75 pc by selecting stars with excesses in individual WISE colors. Here, we further scrutinize the Hipparcos 75 pc…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Rahul I. Patel , Stanimir Metchev , Aren Heinze , Joseph Trollo

In this work, we present and characterize the galaxy cluster catalog detected by the WaZP cluster finder, which is not based on red-sequence identification, on the full six years of observations of the Dark Energy Survey (DES-Y6). The full…

We have conducted a search for new strong gravitational lensing systems in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Legacy Imaging Surveys' Data Release 8. We use deep residual neural networks, building on previous work presented in Huang…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 X. Huang , C. Storfer , A. Gu , V. Ravi , A. Pilon , W. Sheu , R. Venguswamy , S. Banka , A. Dey , M. Landriau , D. Lang , A. Meisner , J. Moustakas , A. D. Myers , R. Sajith , E. F. Schlafly , D. J. Schlegel

We present photometry, photometric redshifts and extra galactic number counts for ultra deep 15 micron mapping of the gravitational lensing cluster Abell 2218 (A2218), which is the deepest image taken by any facility at this wavelength.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-14 Rosalind Hopwood , Stephen Serjeant , Mattia Negrello , Chris Pearson , Eiichi Egami , Myungshin Im , Jean-Paul Kneib , Jongwan Ko , Ian Smail

We introduce the properties of the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) survey for IAU Symposium 204. 2MASS is a near-infrared survey of the entire sky characterized by high reliability and completeness. Catalogs and images for 47% of the sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John E. Gizis , Michael F. Skrutskie

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey is a spectroscopic survey of tens of millions of galaxies at $0 < z < 3.5$ covering 14,000 square degrees of the sky. In its first 1.1 years of survey operations, it has observed more…

We present colour transformations for the conversion of the Wide-Field Survey Explorer (WISE) W1, W2, and W3 magnitudes to the Johnson-Cousins (BVIc), Sloan Digital Sky Survey (gri), and Two Micron All Sky Survey JHKs photometric systems,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Bilir , S. Karaali , N. D. Dagtekin , O. Onal , S. Ak , T. Ak , A. Cabrera-Lavers

We describe a new technique for turning scans of the microwave sky into intensity maps. The technique is based on a Fourier series analysis and is inspired by the lock-in deconvolution used in experiments which typically sweep the sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Piccirillo , G. Romeo , R. K. Schaefer , M. Limon