SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey: A Valuable Resource for Stellar Astrophysics

Simon Murphy, Stefan Keller, Brian Schmidt, Patrick Tisserand, Mike Bessell, Paul Francis, Gary Da Costa

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    Abstract

    The Australian National Universitys SkyMapper telescope is amongst the first of a new generation of dedicated wide-field survey telescopes. Featuring a 5.7 deg2 field-of-view Cassegrain imager and 268 Mega-pixel CCD array, its primary goal will be to undertake the Southern Sky Survey: a six colour (uvgriz), six-epoch digital record of the entire southern sky. The survey will provide photometry for objects between 8th and 23rd magnitude with a global photometric accuracy of 0.03 magnitudes and astrometry to 50 mas. In this contribution we introduce the SkyMapper facility, the survey data products and outline a variety of case-studies in stellar astrophysics for which SkyMapper will have high impact.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationThe Eighth Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics: A Tribute to Kam Ching Leung
    EditorsB. Soonthornthum, S. Komonjinda, K.S. Cheng, and K.C. Leung
    Place of PublicationSan Francisco
    PublisherAstronomical Society of the Pacific
    Pages356-360
    ISBN (Print)9781583816851
    Publication statusPublished - 2009
    Event8th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics (PRCSA 2008) - Phuket Thailand
    Duration: 1 Jan 2009 → …
    http://aspbooks.org/a/volumes/table_of_contents/?book_id=432

    Conference

    Conference8th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics (PRCSA 2008)
    Period1/01/09 → …
    OtherMay 5-9 2008
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