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The Australian National University's SkyMapper telescope is amongst the first of a new generation of dedicated wide-field survey telescopes. Featuring a 5.7 square deg field-of-view Cassegrain imager and 268 Mega-pixel CCD array, its…

The Blanco Cosmology Survey (BCS) is a 60 night imaging survey of $\sim$80 deg$^2$ of the southern sky located in two fields: ($\alpha$,$\delta$)= (5 hr, $-55^{\circ}$) and (23 hr, $-55^{\circ}$). The survey was carried out between 2005 and…

The 2 Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) will observe over one-million galaxies and extended Galactic sources covering the entire sky at wavelengths between 1 and 2 microns. The survey catalog will have both high completeness and reliability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. H. Jarrett , T. Chester , R. Cutri , S. Schneider , M. Skrutskie , J. P. Huchra

We present the first results from the SAGE-Var program, a follow on to the Spitzer legacy program Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution (SAGE; Meixner, et al. 2006). We obtained 4 epochs of photometry at 3.6 & 4.5 microns covering the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-06 D. Riebel , M. L. Boyer , S. Srinivasan , P. Whitelock , M. Meixner , B. Babler , M. Feast , M. A. T. Groenewegen , Y. Ita , M. Meade , B. Shiao , B. Whitney

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) mosaic camera and telescope have obtained five-band optical-wavelength imaging near the Galactic plane outside of the nominal survey boundaries. These additional data were obtained during commissioning…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Nikhil Padmanabhan , David J. Schlegel

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is collecting photometry and intermediate resolution spectra for ~ 10**5 stars in the thick-disk and stellar halo of the Milky Way. This massive dataset can be used to infer the properties of the stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Allende Prieto , T. C. Beers , Y. Li , H. J. Newberg , R. Wilhelm , B. Yanny

The Parkes Galactic All-Sky Survey (GASS) is a survey of Galactic atomic hydrogen (HI) emission in the Southern sky covering declinations $\delta \leq 1^{\circ}$ using the Parkes Radio Telescope. The survey covers $2\pi$ steradians with an…

We describe a standard star catalog constructed using multiple SDSS photometric observations (at least four per band, with a median of ten) in the $ugriz$ system. The catalog includes 1.01 million non-variable unresolved objects from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zeljko Ivezic , J. Allyn Smith , Gajus Miknaitis , Huan Lin , Douglas Tucker

We present predictions for the galaxy-galaxy lensing profile from the EAGLE hydrodynamical cosmological simulation at redshift z=0.18, in the spatial range 0.02 < R/(Mpc/h) < 2, and for five logarithmically equi-spaced stellar mass bins in…

We describe the photometric data set assembled from the full six years of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) in support of static-sky cosmology analyses. DES Y6 Gold is a curated data set derived from DES Data Release 2 (DR2) that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 K. Bechtol , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , A. Drlica-Wagner , B. Yanny , R. A. Gruendl , E. Sheldon , E. S. Rykoff , J. De Vicente , M. Adamow , D. Anbajagane , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Gschwend , M. Gorsuch , W. G. Hartley , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , R. Kron , T. A. Manning , J. O'Donnell , A. Pieres , M. Rodríguez-Monroy , D. Sanchez Cid , M. Tabbutt , L. Toribio San Cipriano , D. L. Tucker , N. Weaverdyck , M. Yamamoto , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , A. Alarcón , S. Allam , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , S. Avila , P. H. Bernardinelli , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , G. Gutierrez , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , N. Jeffrey , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , C. Lidman , M. Lima , H. Lin , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Muir , J. Myles , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Raveri , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , M. A. Troxel , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , P. Wiseman , Y. Zhang

We present an overview of the LIGHTS (LBT Imaging of Galactic Halos and Tidal Structures) survey, which currently includes 25 nearby galaxies that are on average $\sim$ 1 mag fainter than the Milky Way, and a catalog of 54 low central…

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey--III (SDSS--III) Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) has obtained high resolution (R $\sim$ 22,500), high signal-to-noise ratio ($>$ 100) spectra in the H$-$band ($\sim$1.5$-$1.7…

Following on from the second release of calibrated photometry from IPHAS, the INT/WFC Photometric H-alpha Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane, we present incompleteness-corrected stellar density maps in the r and i photometric bands.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 H. J. Farnhill , J. E. Drew , G. Barentsen , E. A. González-Solares

An improved version of the 3D stellar reddening map in a space with a radius of 1200 pc around the Sun and within 600 pc of the Galactic midplane is presented. As in the previous 2010 and 2012 versions of the map, photometry with an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-13 George Gontcharov

We present a catalog of bulge, disk, and total stellar mass estimates for ~660,000 galaxies in the Legacy area of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. These masses are based on a homogeneous catalog of g- and r-band photometry…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Trevor Mendel , Luc Simard , Michael Palmer , Sara L. Ellison , David R. Patton

We present a catalog of 1.4 million photometrically-selected quasar candidates in the southern hemisphere over the $\sim 5000\,{\rm deg^2}$ Dark Energy Survey (DES) wide survey area. We combine optical photometry from the DES second data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Qian Yang , Yue Shen

Based on SDSS g, r and SCUSS (South Galactic Cap of u-band Sky Survey) $u$ photometry, we develop a photometric calibration for estimating the stellar metallicity from $u-g$ and $g-r$ colors by using the SDSS spectra of 32,542 F- and G-type…

We combine narrow/medium-band filter photometry from the Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) DR4 with ultra broad-band filter photometry from Gaia EDR3 to derive fundamental stellar parameters ($T_{\rm eff}$, $\log g$,…

Aims. We explore the outer Galactic disc up to a Galactocentric distance of 30 kpc to derive its parameters and measure the magnitude of its flare. Methods. We obtained the 3D density of stars of type F8V-G5V with a colour selection from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-05 M. Lopez-Corredoira , J. Molgo

We introduce the Survey for Ionization in Neutral Gas Galaxies (SINGG), a census of star formation in HI-selected galaxies. The survey consists of H-alpha and R-band imaging of a sample of 468 galaxies selected from the HI Parkes All Sky…