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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Eighth Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics: A Tribute to Kam Ching Leung |
Editors | B. Soonthornthum, S. Komonjinda, K.S. Cheng, and K.C. Leung |
Place of Publication | San Francisco |
Publisher | Astronomical Society of the Pacific |
Pages | 356-360 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781583816851 |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Event | 8th 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
Conference | 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics (PRCSA 2008) |
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Period | 1/01/09 → … |
Other | May 5-9 2008 |
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