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First Data Release of the All-sky NOAO Source Catalog

Most of the sky has been imaged with NOAO's telescopes from both hemispheres. While the large majority of these data were obtained for PI-led projects and almost all of the images are publicly available, only a small fraction have been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-05 David L. Nidever , Arjun Dey , Knut Olsen , Stephen Ridgway , Robert Nikutta , Stephanie Juneau , Michael Fitzpatrick , Adam Scott , Frank Valdes

The DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey Data Release 2

We present the second public data release (DR2) from the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE). DELVE DR2 combines new DECam observations with archival DECam data from the Dark Energy Survey, the DECam Legacy Survey, and other DECam…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 A. Drlica-Wagner , P. S. Ferguson , M. Adamów , M. Aguena , F. Andrade-Oliveira , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , E. F. Bell , E. Bertin , P. Bilaji , S. Bocquet , C. R. Bom , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. A. Carballo-Bello , J. L. Carlin , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , W. Cerny , C. Chang , Y. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , D. Crnojević , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , J. Esteves , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , M. Fitzpatrick , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , W. G. Hartley , D. Hernandez-Lang , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , A. K. Hughes , A. Jacques , D. J. James , M. D. Johnson , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , C. Lidman , H. Lin , M. March , J. L. Marshall , D. Martínez-Delgado , C. E. Martínez-Vázquez , P. Massana , S. Mau , M. McNanna , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , A. E. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , B. Mutlu-Pakdil , R. R. Muñoz , E. H. Neilsen , D. L. Nidever , R. Nikutta , J. L. Nilo Castellon , N. E. D. Noël , R. L. C. Ogando , K. A. G. Olsen , A. B. Pace , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , M. E. S. Pereira , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , J. Prat , A. H. Riley , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , J. D. Sakowska , E. Sanchez , F. J. Sánchez , D. J. Sand , L. Santana-Silva , B. Santiago , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , J. D. Simon , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , G. S. Stringfellow , E. Suchyta , D. J. Suson , C. Y. Tan , G. Tarle , K. Tavangar , D. Thomas , C. To , E. J. Tollerud , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , T. N. Varga , A. K. Vivas , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , R. D. Wilkinson , J. F. Wu , B. Yanny , E. Zaborowski , A. Zenteno

SkyMapper Southern Survey: Second Data Release (DR2)

We present the second data release (DR2) of the SkyMapper Southern Survey, a hemispheric survey carried out with the SkyMapper Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia, using six optical filters: $u,v,g,r,i,z$. DR2 is the first…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-25 Christopher A. Onken , Christian Wolf , Michael S. Bessell , Seo-Won Chang , Gary S. Da Costa , Lance C. Luvaul , Dougal Mackey , Brian P. Schmidt , Li Shao

A Precision Multi-Band Two-Epoch Photometric Catalog of 44 Million Sources in the Northern Sky from Combination of the USNO-B and Sloan Digital Sky Survey Catalogs

A key science driver for the next generation of wide-field optical and radio surveys is the exploration of the time variable sky. These surveys will have unprecedented sensitivity and areal coverage, but will be limited in their ability to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-04 G. J. Madsen , B. M. Gaensler

The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 square degrees of five-band (u g r i z) imaging data with photometry for over 88 million unique objects,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Abazajian et al.

The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2

We present the second public data release of the Dark Energy Survey, DES DR2, based on optical/near-infrared imaging by the Dark Energy Camera mounted on the 4-m Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. DES DR2…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Adamow , M. Aguena , S. Allam , A. Amon , J. Annis , S. Avila , D. Bacon , M. Banerji , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , L. Gelman , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , M. Gill , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. D. Johnson , S. Kent , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , C. Lidman , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , T. Manning , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , J. Myles , E. Neilsen , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas , C. Pond , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , J. Allyn. Smith , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , P. E. Tremblay , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , D. J Turner , T. N. Varga , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. D. Wilkinson , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang , R. Nikutta , M. Fitzpatrick , A. Jacques , A. Scott , K. Olsen , L. Huang , D. Herrera , S. Juneau , D. Nidever , B. A. Weaver , C. Adean , V. Correia , M. de Freitas , F. N. Freitas , C. Singulani , G. Vila-Verde

Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties

We present the second Gaia data release, Gaia DR2, consisting of astrometry, photometry, radial velocities, and information on astrophysical parameters and variability, for sources brighter than magnitude 21. In addition epoch astrometry…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 Gaia Collaboration , A. G. A. Brown , A. Vallenari , T. Prusti , J. H. J. de Bruijne , C. Babusiaux , C. A. L. Bailer-Jones

Gaia Data Release 2: Catalogue validation

The second Gaia data release (DR2), contains very precise astrometric and photometric properties for more than one billion sources, astrophysical parameters for dozens of millions, radial velocities for millions, variability information for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 F. Arenou , X. Luri , C. Babusiaux , C. Fabricius , A. Helmi , T. Muraveva , A. C. Robin , F. Spoto , A. Vallenari , T. Antoja , T. Cantat-Gaudin , C. Jordi , N. Leclerc , C. Reylé , M. Romero-Gómez , I-C. Shih , S. Soria , C. Barache , D. Bossini , A. Bragaglia , M. A. Breddels , M. Fabrizio , S. Lambert , P. M. Marrese , D. Massari , A. Moitinho , N. Robichon , L. Ruiz-Dern , R. Sordo , J. Veljanoski , P. Di Matteo , L. Eyer , G. Jasniewicz , E. Pancino , C. Soubiran , A. Spagna , P. Tanga , C. Turon , C. Zurbach

The Chandra Source Catalog Release 2 Series

The Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) is a virtual X-ray astrophysics facility that enables both detailed individual source studies and statistical studies of large samples of X-ray sources detected in ACIS and HRC-I imaging observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-16 Ian N. Evans , Janet D. Evans , J. Rafael Martínez-Galarza , Joseph B. Miller , Francis A. Primini , Mojegan Azadi , Douglas J. Burke , Francesca M. Civano , Raffaele D'Abrusco , Giuseppina Fabbiano , Dale E. Graessle , John D. Grier , John C. Houck , Jennifer Lauer , Michael L. McCollough , Michael A. Nowak , David A. Plummer , Arnold H. Rots , Aneta Siemiginowska , Michael S. Tibbetts

Data Release 2 of S-PLUS: accurate template-fitting based photometry covering $\sim$1000 square degrees in 12 optical filters

The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) is an ongoing survey of $\sim$9300 deg$^2$ in the southern sky in a 12-band photometric system. This paper presents the second data release (DR2) of S-PLUS, consisting of 514 tiles…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 F. Almeida-Fernandes , L. Sampedro , F. R. Herpich , A. Molino , C. E. Barbosa , M. L. Buzzo , R. A. Overzier , E. V. R. de Lima , L. M. I. Nakazono , G. B. Oliveira Schwarz , H. D. Perottoni , G. F. Bolutavicius , L. A. Gutiérrez-Soto , T. Santos-Silva , A. Z. Vitorelli , A. Werle , D. D. Whitten , M. V. Costa Duarte , C. R. Bom , P. Coelho , L. Sodré , V. M. Placco , G. S. M. Teixeira , J. Alonso-García , T. C. Beers , A. Kanaan , T. Ribeiro , W. Schoenell , C. Mendes de Oliveira

The Second-Generation Guide Star Catalog: Description and Properties

The GSC-II is an all-sky database of objects derived from the uncompressed DSS that the STScI has created from the Palomar and UK Schmidt survey plates and made available to the community. Like its predecessor (GSC-I), the GSC-II was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. M. Lasker , M. G. Lattanzi , B. J. McLean , B. Bucciarelli , R. Drimmel , J. Garcia , G. Greene , F. Guglielmetti , C. Hanley , G. Hawkins , V. G. Laidler , C. Loomis , M. Meakes , R. Mignani , R. Morbidelli , J. Morrison , R. Pannunzio , A. Rosenberg , M. Sarasso , R. L. Smart , A. Spagna , C. R. Sturch , A. Volpicelli , R. L. White , D. Wolfe , A. Zacchei

The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDSS-II. It includes 11663 deg^2 of imaging data, with most of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 K. Abazajian

Second Data Release of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program

This paper presents the second data release of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program, a wide-field optical imaging survey on the 8.2 meter Subaru Telescope. The release includes data from 174 nights of observation through January…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Hiroaki Aihara , Yusra AlSayyad , Makoto Ando , Robert Armstrong , James Bosch , Eiichi Egami , Hisanori Furusawa , Junko Furusawa , Andy Goulding , Yuichi Harikane , Chiaki Hikage , Paul T. P. Ho , Bau-Ching Hsieh , Song Huang , Hiroyuki Ikeda , Masatoshi Imanishi , Kei Ito , Ikuru Iwata , Anton T. Jaelani , Ryota Kakuma , Kojiro Kawana , Satoshi Kikuta , Umi Kobayashi , Michitaro Koike , Yutaka Komiyama , Xiangchong Li , Yongming Liang , Yen-Ting Lin , Wentao Luo , Robert Lupton , Nate B. Lust , Lauren A. MacArthur , Yoshiki Matsuoka , Sogo Mineo , Hironao Miyatake , Satoshi Miyazaki , Surhud More , Ryoma Murata , Shigeru V. Namiki , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Masamune Oguri , Nobuhiro Okabe , Sakurako Okamoto , Yuki Okura , Yoshiaki Ono , Masato Onodera , Masafusa Onoue , Ken Osato , Masami Ouchi , Takatoshi Shibuya , Michael A. Strauss , Naoshi Sugiyama , Yasushi Suto , Masahiro Takada , Yuhei Takagi , Tadafumi Takata , Satoshi Takita , Masayuki Tanaka , Tsuyoshi Terai , Yoshiki Toba , Hisakazu Uchiyama , Yousuke Utsumi , Shiang-Yu Wang , Wenting Wang , Yoshihiko Yamada

Exploring the Solar System with the NOIRLab Source Catalog I: Detecting Objects with CANFind

Despite extensive searches and the relative proximity of solar system objects (SSOS) to Earth, many remain undiscovered and there is still much to learn about their properties and interactions. This work is the first in a series dedicated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Katie M. Fasbender , David L. Nidever

Gaia Data Release 2: The astrometric solution

Gaia Data Release 2 (Gaia DR2) contains results for 1693 million sources in the magnitude range 3 to 21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gaia satellite during the first 22 months of its operational phase. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 L. Lindegren , J. Hernandez , A. Bombrun , S. Klioner , U. Bastian , M. Ramos-Lerate , A. de Torres , H. Steidelmuller , C. Stephenson , D. Hobbs , U. Lammers , M. Biermann , R. Geyer , T. Hilger , D. Michalik , U. Stampa , P. J. McMillan , J. Castaneda , M. Clotet , G. Comoretto , M. Davidson , C. Fabricius , G. Gracia , N. C. Hambly , A. Hutton , A. Mora , J. Portell , F. van Leeuwen , U. Abbas , A. Abreu , M. Altmann , A. Andrei , E. Anglada , L. Balaguer-Nunez , C. Barache , U. Becciani , S. Bertone , L. Bianchi , S. Bouquillon , G. Bourda , T. Brusemeister , B. Bucciarelli , D. Busonero , R. Buzzi , R. Cancelliere , T. Carlucci , P. Charlot , N. Cheek , M. Crosta , C. Crowley , J. de Bruijne , F. de Felice , R. Drimmel , P. Esquej , A. Fienga , E. Fraile , M. Gai , N. Garralda , J. J. Gonzalez-Vidal , R. Guerra , M. Hauser , W. Hofmann , B. Holl , S. Jordan , M. G. Lattanzi , H. Lenhardt , S. Liao , E. Licata , T. Lister , W. Loffler , J. Marchant , J. -M. Martin-Fleitas , R. Messineo , F. Mignard , R. Morbidelli , E. Poggio , A. Riva , N. Rowell , E. Salguero , M. Sarasso , E. Sciacca , H. Siddiqui , R. L. Smart , A. Spagna , I. Steele , F. Taris , J. Torra , A. van Elteren , W. van Reeven , A. Vecchiato

The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey VII: Spectra and Polarisation In Cutouts of Extragalactic Sources (SPICE-RACS) Second Data Release -- Unveiling the Magnetised Sky

We present the second data release (DR2) of Spectra and Polarisation in Cutouts of Extragalactic sources from RACS (SPICE-RACS). SPICE-RACS DR2 is derived from the third low-band epoch of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS-low3) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 Alec J. M. Thomson , Timothy J. Galvin , Stefan W. Duchesne , Emil Lenc , George Heald , Ondrej Hlinka , Sunil Malik , Craig S. Anderson , Erik Osinga , Lerato Baidoo , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , Sebastian Hutschenreuter , Shane P. O'Sullivan , Takuya Akahori , B. M. Gaensler , J. P. Leahy , Y. K. Ma , Vanessa A. Moss , L. Rudnick , C. L. Van Eck , J. L. West

The Second Data Release of the KODIAQ Survey

We present and make publicly available the second data release (DR2) of the Keck Observatory Database of Ionized Absorption toward Quasars (KODIAQ) survey. KODIAQ DR2 consists of a fully-reduced sample of 300 quasars at 0.07 < z_em < 5.29…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-06 John M. O'Meara , Nicolas Lehner , J. Christopher Howk , J. Xavier Prochaska , Andrew J. Fox , Molly S. Peeples , Jason Tumlinson , Brian W. O'Shea

The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

With the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the imaging of the Northern Galactic Cap is now complete. The survey contains images and parameters of roughly 287 million objects over 9583 deg^2, and 1.27 million spectra of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy

SkyMapper Southern Survey: Data Release 4

We present the fourth data release (DR4) of the SkyMapper Southern Survey (SMSS), the last major step in our hemispheric survey with six optical filters: u, v, g, r, i, z. SMSS DR4 covers 26,000 sq.deg from over 400,000 images acquired by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Christopher A. Onken , Christian Wolf , Michael S. Bessell , Seo-Won Chang , Lance C. Luvaul , John L. Tonry , Marc C. White , Gary S. Da Costa

CosmoDC2: A Synthetic Sky Catalog for Dark Energy Science with LSST

This paper introduces cosmoDC2, a large synthetic galaxy catalog designed to support precision dark energy science with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). CosmoDC2 is the starting point for the second data challenge (DC2) carried…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Danila Korytov , Andrew Hearin , Eve Kovacs , Patricia Larsen , Esteban Rangel , Joseph Hollowed , Andrew J. Benson , Katrin Heitmann , Yao-Yuan Mao , Anita Bahmanyar , Chihway Chang , Duncan Campbell , Joseph Derose , Hal Finkel , Nicholas Frontiere , Eric Gawiser , Salman Habib , Benjamin Joachimi , François Lanusse , Nan Li , Rachel Mandelbaum , Christopher Morrison , Jeffrey A. Newman , Adrian Pope , Eli Rykoff , Melanie Simet , Chun-Hao To , Vinu Vikraman , Risa H. Wechsler , Martin White