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

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 language	English
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

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Conference	8th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics (PRCSA 2008)
Period	1/01/09 → …
Other	May 5-9 2008
Internet address	http://aspbooks.org/a/volumes/table_of_contents/?book_id=432

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Murphy, Simon ; Keller, Stefan ; Schmidt, Brian et al. / SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey: A Valuable Resource for Stellar Astrophysics. The Eighth Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics: A Tribute to Kam Ching Leung. editor / B. Soonthornthum, S. Komonjinda, K.S. Cheng, and K.C. Leung. San Francisco : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2009. pp. 356-360

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Murphy, S, Keller, S, Schmidt, B, Tisserand, P, Bessell, M, Francis, P & Da Costa, G 2009, SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey: A Valuable Resource for Stellar Astrophysics. in BSSKKSCAKCL (ed.), The Eighth Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics: A Tribute to Kam Ching Leung. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, pp. 356-360, 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics (PRCSA 2008), 1/01/09.

SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey: A Valuable Resource for Stellar Astrophysics. / Murphy, Simon; Keller, Stefan; Schmidt, Brian et al.
The Eighth Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics: A Tribute to Kam Ching Leung. ed. / B. Soonthornthum, S. Komonjinda, K.S. Cheng, and K.C. Leung. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2009. p. 356-360.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › peer-review

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