Second Data Release of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program
Hiroaki Aihara,Yusra AlSayyad,Makoto Ando,Robert Armstrong,James Bosch,Eiichi Egami,Hisanori Furusawa,Junko Furusawa,Sumiko Harasawa,Yuichi Harikane,Bau-Ching Hsieh,Hiroyuki Ikeda,Kei Ito,Ikuru Iwata,Tadayuki Kodama,Michitaro Koike,Mitsuru Kokubo,Yutaka Komiyama,Xiangchong Li,Yongming Liang,Yen-Ting Lin,Robert H. Lupton,Nate B. Lust,Lauren A. MacArthur,Ken Mawatari,Sogo Mineo,Hironao Miyatake,Satoshi Miyazaki,Surhud More,Takahiro Morishima,Hitoshi Murayama,Kimihiko Nakajima,Fumiaki Nakata,Atsushi J. Nishizawa,Masamune Oguri,Nobuhiro Okabe,Yuki Okura,Yoshiaki Ono,Ken Osato,Masami Ouchi,Yen-Chen Pan,Andres Plazas Malagon,Paul A. Price,S. L. Reed,Eli S. Rykoff,Takatoshi Shibuya,Mirko Simunovic,Michael A. Strauss,Kanako Sugimori,Yasushi Suto,Nao Suzuki,Masahiro Takada,Yuhei Takagi,Tadafumi Takata,Satoshi Takita,Masayuki Tanaka,Shenli Tang,Dan S. Taranu,Tsuyoshi Terai,Yoshiki Toba,Edwin L. Turner,Hisakazu Uchiyama,Bovornpratch Vijarnwannaluk,Christopher Waters,Yoshihiko Yamada,Naoaki Yamamoto,T. Yamashita +66 more
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The first public data release of HSC-SSP is presented in the first 1.7 years of observations (61.5 nights) and each of the Wide, Deep, and UltraDeep layers covers about 108, 26, and 4 square degrees down to depths of i~26.4, ~26.5, and ~27.0 mag, respectively (5sigma for point sources) as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
The Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) is a three-layered imaging survey aimed at addressing some of the most outstanding questions in astronomy today, including the nature of dark matter and dark energy. The survey has been awarded 300 nights of observing time at the Subaru Telescope and it started in March 2014. This paper presents the first public data release of HSC-SSP. This release includes data taken in the first 1.7 years of observations (61.5 nights) and each of the Wide, Deep, and UltraDeep layers covers about 108, 26, and 4 square degrees down to depths of i~26.4, ~26.5, and ~27.0 mag, respectively (5sigma for point sources). All the layers are observed in five broad bands (grizy), and the Deep and UltraDeep layers are observed in narrow bands as well. We achieve an impressive image quality of 0.6 arcsec in the i-band in the Wide layer. We show that we achieve 1-2 per cent PSF photometry (rms) both internally and externally (against Pan-STARRS1), and ~10 mas and 40 mas internal and external astrometric accuracy, respectively. Both the calibrated images and catalogs are made available to the community through dedicated user interfaces and database servers. In addition to the pipeline products, we also provide value-added products such as photometric redshifts and a collection of public spectroscopic redshifts. Detailed descriptions of all the data can be found online. The data release website is this https URL.read more
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Astronomical data analysis software and systems
VizieR Online Data Catalog: A Stellar Spectral Flux Library: 1150 - 25000 A (Pickles 1998)
TL;DR: A stellar spectral flux library of wide spectral coverage and an example of its application are presented in this paper, which consists of 131 flux-calibrated spectra, encompassing all normal spectral types and luminosity classes at solar abundance, and metal-weak and metalrich F-K dwarf and G-K giant components.
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The Hyper Suprime-Cam SSP Survey: Overview and Survey Design
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TL;DR: Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is a wide-field imaging camera on the prime focus of the 8.2m Subaru telescope on the summit of Maunakea in Hawaii as mentioned in this paper.
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Overview of the DESI legacy imaging surveys
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TL;DR: The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (http://legacysurvey.org/) as mentioned in this paper is a combination of three public projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey, and the Mayall z-band Legacy Survey) that will jointly image ≈14,000 deg2 of the extragalactic sky visible from the northern hemisphere in three optical bands (g, r, and z) using telescopes at the Kitt Peak National Observatory and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.
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The dark energy survey data release 1
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TL;DR: The first public data release of the DES DR1 dataset is described in this paper, consisting of reduced single-epoch images, co-add images, and co-added source catalogs, and associated products and services.
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The Gaia mission
T. Prusti,J. H. J. de Bruijne,Anthony G. A. Brown,Antonella Vallenari,C. Babusiaux,C. A. L. Bailer-Jones,Ulrich Bastian,M. Biermann,D. W. Evans,L. Eyer,F. A. Jansen,Carme Jordi,Sergei A. Klioner,Uwe Lammers,Lennart Lindegren,Xavier Luri,Francois Mignard,D. J. Milligan,C. Panem,V. Poinsignon,Dimitri Pourbaix,Sofia Randich,G. Sarri,P. Sartoretti,H. I. Siddiqui,Caroline Soubiran,V. Valette,F. van Leeuwen,N. A. Walton,Conny Aerts,Frédéric Arenou,Mark Cropper,R. Drimmel,Erik Høg,D. Katz,Mario G. Lattanzi,W. O'Mullane,Eva K. Grebel,Andrew D. Holland,C. Huc,X. Passot,L. Bramante,Carla Cacciari,J. Castañeda,L. Chaoul,N. Cheek,F. De Angeli,C. Fabricius,Raphael Guerra,Jose M Hernandez,A. Jean-Antoine-Piccolo,Eduard Masana,R. Messineo,Nami Mowlavi,Krzysztof Nienartowicz,D. Ordóñez-Blanco,Pasquale Panuzzo,Jordi Portell,P. J. Richards,M. Riello,George M. Seabroke,Paolo Tanga,F. Thévenin,J. Torra,Sebastian Els,G. Gracia-Abril,G. Comoretto,M. Garcia-Reinaldos,T. Lock,E. Mercier,Martin Altmann,Rene Andrae,Tri L. Astraatmadja,I. Bellas-Velidis,Kevin Benson,Jérôme Berthier,R. Blomme,G. Busso,Benoit Carry,Alberto Cellino,Gisella Clementini,S. Cowell,O. L. Creevey,J. Cuypers,Michael Davidson,J. De Ridder,A. de Torres,Ludovic Delchambre,Aldo Dell'Oro,C. Ducourant,Yves Fremat,Miguel García-Torres,Eric Gosset,J. L. Halbwachs,Nigel Hambly,D. L. Harrison,M. Hauser,Daniel Hestroffer,Simon Hodgkin,H. E. Huckle,A. Hutton,Gérard Jasniewicz,Stefan Jordan,M. Kontizas,Andreas Korn,A. C. Lanzafame,Minia Manteiga,André Moitinho,Karri Muinonen,J. Osinde,Elena Pancino,T. Pauwels,J. M. Petit,Alejandra Recio-Blanco,Annie C. Robin,L. M. Sarro,Christos Siopis,M. J. S. Smith,K. W. Smith,Alessandro Sozzetti,William Thuillot,W. van Reeven,Y. Viala,Ummi Abbas,A. Abreu Aramburu,S. Accart,J. J. Aguado,P. M. Allan,Walter Allasia,G. Altavilla,M. A. Álvarez,João Alves,Richard I. Anderson,Alexandre Humberto Andrei,E. Anglada Varela,E. Antiche,Teresa Antoja,Sonia Anton,Bernardino Arcay,A. Atzei,L. Ayache,N. Bach,S. G. Baker,L. Balaguer-Núñez,Christophe Barache,C. Barata,Antoine Barbier,F. Barblan,M. Baroni,D. Barrado y Navascués,M. Barros,Martin A. Barstow,Ugo Becciani,Michele Bellazzini,G. Bellei,A. Bello García,Vasily Belokurov,Philippe Bendjoya,A. Berihuete,Luciana Bianchi,Olivier Bienaymé,F. Billebaud,Nadejda Blagorodnova,S. Blanco-Cuaresma,T. Boch,Alex Bombrun,R. Borrachero,S. Bouquillon,G. Bourda,Hervé Bouy,Angela Bragaglia,Maarten A. Breddels,N. Brouillet,T. Brüsemeister,Beatrice Bucciarelli,F. Budnik,P. Burgess,R. Burgon,A. Burlacu,Deborah Busonero,R. Buzzi,Elisabetta Caffau,J. Cambras,Heather Campbell,Rossella Cancelliere,Tristan Cantat-Gaudin,T. Carlucci,J. M. Carrasco,Marco Castellani,P. Charlot,J. Charnas,P. Charvet,F. Chassat,Andrea Chiavassa,M. Clotet,G. Cocozza,Ross Collins,P. Collins,G. Costigan,F. Crifo,Nicholas Cross,Mariateresa Crosta,C. Crowley,Carlos Dafonte,Yassine Damerdji,A. Dapergolas,P. David,M. David,P. De Cat,F. de Felice,P. de Laverny,F. De Luise,R. De March,D. de Martino,R. E. de Souza,Jonas Debosscher,E. del Pozo,Marco Delbo,A. Delgado,H. E. Delgado,F. di Marco,P. Di Matteo,S. Diakite,Elisa Distefano,C. Dolding,S. dos Anjos,P. Drazinos,J. Durán,Y. Dzigan,E. Ecale,Bengt Edvardsson,Harry Enke,M. Erdmann,D. Escolar,M. Espina,Nick Evans,G. Eynard Bontemps,C. Fabre,M. Fabrizio,Simchon Faigler,A. J. Falcão,M. Farràs Casas,F. Faye,Luciana Federici,Grigori Fedorets,J. Fernández-Hernández,Pierre Fernique,Agnes Fienga,Francesca Figueras,F. Filippi,K. Findeisen,A. Fonti,Morgan Fouesneau,E. Fraile,Morgan Fraser,J. Fuchs,R. Furnell,Mario Gai,S. Galleti,Laurent Galluccio,D. Garabato,F. García-Sedano,P. Gare,A. Garofalo,N. Garralda,P. Gavras,J. Gerssen,R. Geyer,Gerry Gilmore,S. Girona,G. Giuffrida,M. Gomes,Ana González-Marcos,J. González-Núñez,J. J. González-Vidal,Mikael Granvik,A. Guerrier,Patrick Guillout,J. Guiraud,A. Gúrpide,R. Gutiérrez-Sánchez,Leanne P. Guy,R. Haigron,Despina Hatzidimitriou,Misha Haywood,Ulrike Heiter,Amina Helmi,David Hobbs,W. Hofmann,B. Holl,G. Holland,Julie Ann Hunt,A. Hypki,V. Icardi,Mike Irwin,G. Jevardat de Fombelle,Paula Jofre,Peter G. Jonker,Alain Jorissen,F. Julbe,A. Karampelas,A. Kochoska,R. Kohley,Katrien Kolenberg,E. Kontizas,Sergey E. Koposov,Georges Kordopatis,P. Koubsky,A. Kowalczyk,Alberto Krone-Martins,M. Kudryashova,I. Kull,R. K. Bachchan,F. Lacoste-Seris,Antonino F. Lanza,J.-B. Lavigne,C. Le Poncin-Lafitte,Yveline Lebreton,T. Lebzelter,Silvio Leccia,N. Leclerc,Isabelle Lecoeur-Taïbi,Vincent Lemaitre,H. Lenhardt,F. Leroux,Shilong Liao,E. Licata,H. E. P. Lindstrøm,T. A. Lister,E. Livanou,Alex Lobel,W. Löffler,M. López,A. Lopez-Lozano,D. Lorenz,T. Loureiro,I. MacDonald,T. Magalhães Fernandes,S. Managau,Robert G. Mann,G. Mantelet,O. Marchal,Jon Marchant,Marcella Marconi,J. Marie,S. Marinoni,P. M. Marrese,G. Marschalkó,D. J. Marshall,J. M. Martín-Fleitas,M. Martino,Nicolas Mary,Gal Matijevic,Tsevi Mazeh,Paul J. McMillan,S. Messina,A. Mestre,Daniel Michalik,N. R. Millar,B. M. H. Miranda,D. Molina,Roberto Molinaro,Marco Molinaro,László Molnár,M. Moniez,Paolo Montegriffo,D. Monteiro,R. Mor,A. Mora,Roberto Morbidelli,Thierry Morel,Stephan Morgenthaler,T. Morley,Derek W. Morris,A. F. Mulone,Tatiana Muraveva,Ilaria Musella,J. Narbonne,Gijs Nelemans,Luciano Nicastro,L. Noval,C. Ordenovic,Joaquín Ordieres-Meré,P. Osborne,C. Pagani,Isabella Pagano,F. Pailler,H. Palacin,L. Palaversa,P. Parsons,T. Paulsen,M. Pecoraro,R. Pedrosa,H. Pentikäinen,J. Pereira,B. Pichon,A. M. Piersimoni,F. X. Pineau,Emese Plachy,G. Plum,E. Poujoulet,Andrej Prsa,L. Pulone,S. Ragaini,S. Rago,Nicolas Rambaux,M. Ramos-Lerate,Piero Ranalli,Grégor Rauw,A. M. Read,S. Regibo,F. Renk,Céline Reylé,Rita A. Ribeiro,Lorenzo Rimoldini,Vincenzo Ripepi,Alberto Riva,Guy Rixon,Maroussia Roelens,M. Romero-Gómez,Nicholas Rowell,Frédéric Royer,Anja Rudolph,L. Ruiz-Dern,G. Sadowski,T. Sagristà Sellés,Johannes Sahlmann,Jesus Salgado,E. Salguero,M. Sarasso,H. Savietto,A. Schnorhk,M. Schultheis,Eva Sciacca,M. Segol,J. C. Segovia,Damien Ségransan,E. Serpell,I.-C. Shih,Riccardo Smareglia,Richard L. Smart,Caleb Smith,Enrique Solano,F. Solitro,Rosanna Sordo,Sonia Nieto,J. Souchay,Alessandro Spagna,Federica Spoto,U. Stampa,Iain A. Steele,H. Steidelmüller,C.A. Stephenson,H. Stoev,F. F. Suess,Maria Süveges,Jean Surdej,László Szabados,E. Szegedi-Elek,D. Tapiador,F. Taris,G. Tauran,Mark Taylor,Ramachrisna Teixeira,D. Terrett,Brandon Tingley,Scott Trager,C. Turon,Ana Ulla,E. Utrilla,Gaetano Valentini,A. van Elteren,E. Van Hemelryck,M. van Leeuwen,M. Varadi,Alberto Vecchiato,Jovan Veljanoski,T. Via,D. Vicente,Steven S. Vogt,Holger Voss,Viktor Votruba,S. Voutsinas,G. Walmsley,M. Weiler,K. Weingrill,D. Werner,Thomas Wevers,G. Whitehead,Łukasz Wyrzykowski,A. Yoldas,M. Žerjal,Shay Zucker,C. Zurbach,Tomaz Zwitter,A. Alecu,M. Allen,C. Allende Prieto,António Amorim,Guillem Anglada-Escudé,V. Arsenijevic,S. Azaz,P. Balm,M. Beck,H.-H. Bernstein,Lionel Bigot,Albert Bijaoui,C. Blasco,M. Bonfigli,Giuseppe Bono,Steve Boudreault,Alessandro Bressan,S. Brown,P.-M. Brunet,P. S. Bunclark,R. Buonanno,A. G. Butkevich,C. Carret,C. Carrion,Laurent Chemin,F. Chéreau,Leonardo Corcione,E. Darmigny,K. S. de Boer,P. de Teodoro,P. T. de Zeeuw,C. Delle Luche,Catherine Dominguès,Pierre Dubath,F. Fodor,B. Frézouls,A. Fries,Diego Fustes,D. Fyfe,E. Gallardo,J. Gallegos,Daniele Gardiol,M. Gebran,A. Gomboc,A. E. Gomez,E. Grux,A. Gueguen,A. Heyrovsky,J. Hoar,G. Iannicola,Y. Isasi Parache,A.-M. Janotto,E. Joliet,A. Jonckheere,R. Keil,Dae-Won Kim,Peter Klagyivik,Joakim Klar,J. Knude,Oleg Kochukhov,I. Kolka,Janez Kos,A. Kutka,Valéry Lainey,D. LeBouquin,Chao Liu,Davide Loreggia,Valeri V. Makarov,M. Marseille,Christophe Martayan,O. Martinez-Rubi,B. Massart,F. Meynadier,Shan Mignot,Ulisse Munari,A.-T. Nguyen,Thomas Nordlander,P. Ocvirk,K. S. O'Flaherty,A. Olias Sanz,P. Ortiz,J. Osorio,Dagmara Oszkiewicz,A. Ouzounis,M. Palmer,P. Park,Ester Pasquato,C. Peltzer,J. Peralta,F. Péturaud,T. Pieniluoma,E. Pigozzi,J. Poels,G. Prat,Thibaut Prod'homme,F. Raison,José Manuel Rebordão,D. Risquez,Brigitte Rocca-Volmerange,Simon Rosen,M. I. Ruiz-Fuertes,Federico Russo,Steven Sembay,I. Serraller Vizcaino,A. Short,A. Siebert,H. Silva,D. Sinachopoulos,Eric Slezak,Michael Soffel,Danuta Sosnowska,V. Straižys,M. ter Linden,Dirk Terrell,Stephan Theil,C. Tiede,L. Troisi,P. Tsalmantza,D. Tur,Mattia Vaccari,Frédéric Vachier,P. Valles,W. Van Hamme,L. Veltz,Jenni Virtanen,J.-M. Wallut,R. Wichmann,Mark I. Wilkinson,H. Ziaeepour,Sven Zschocke +624 more
TL;DR: Gaia as discussed by the authors is a cornerstone mission in the science programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft construction was approved in 2006, following a study in which the original interferometric concept was changed to a direct-imaging approach.
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