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The La Silla-QUEST Low Redshift Supernova Survey
C. Baltay,David Rabinowitz,Elena Hadjiyska,Emma S. Walker,Peter Nugent,Paolo De Coppi,Nancy Ellman,Ulrich Feindt,Ryan McKinnon,Benjamin Horowitz,Aaron Effron +10 more
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The La Silla-QUEST Low Redshift Supernova Survey (LS-QUEST) as mentioned in this paper is a part of the Southern Hemisphere Variability Survey (SVSS), which uses the 10-deg210-deg2 QUEST camera installed at the prime focus of the 1.0m Schmidt Telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO).Abstract:
.The La Silla-QUEST Low Redshift Supernova Survey is a part of the La Silla-QUEST Southern Hemisphere Variability Survey. The survey uses the 10 deg210 deg2 QUEST camera installed at the prime focus of the 1.0-m Schmidt Telescope of the European Southern Observatory at La Silla, Chile, and utilizes essentially all of the observing time of the telescope. The QUEST camera was installed on the ESO Schmidt telescope in 2009 after completing a 5 year variability survey in the northern hemisphere using the 1.2-m Oschin Schmidt telescope at Palomar. La Silla-QUEST started science operations in 2009 September. The low redshift supernova survey commenced in 2011 December and is planned to continue for the next 4 years. In this article we describe the instrumentation, software, operation, and performance characteristics of the survey.read more
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ATLAS: A High-cadence All-sky Survey System
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TL;DR: This system, the "Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System" (ATLAS), has been optimized to produce the best survey capability per unit cost, and therefore is an efficient and competitive system for finding potentially hazardous asteroids but also for tracking variables and finding transients.
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ATLAS: A High-Cadence All-Sky Survey System
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