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Jan 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21342703s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #427.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.258
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The QUEST-II camera, operating on the Samuel Oschin 1.3-m telescope on Mt. Palomar between July 2003 and September 2008, took data in two modes: drift scan mode in 4 filters (alternating Johnson UBRI and SDSS riz) and point-and-track mode in a red RG-610 filter. Telescope time for RG-610 imaging has been shared among several collaborations, fueling searches for near-earth asteroids by the Near Earth Asteroid Tracker (NEAT) and minor planets by the Quasar Equatorial Survey Team (QUEST), and for supernovae by the Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory), with over 11 million images taken in total. The DeepSky project is an initiative to reprocess the RG-610 images and to co-add them into a much deeper set of images covering 20,000 square degrees of sky to R > 23. This set of deep images will
eventually serve as a reference for discovery of variable and transient phenomena through image subtraction. As another useful by-product of the necessary photometric calibration and co-addition, RG-610 light curves comprising 50+ epochs of imaging will be produced for each point source found in the DeepSky co-add, enabling detailed historical studies of the time-domain behavior of individual AGN, variable stars, supernovae and other transient phenomena discovered in a blind survey of a very large sky area. We describe the co-add and light curve data products and present first science results from the effort.
Baltay Charles
DeepSky Collaboration
Djorgovski Stanislav G.
Nugent Peter
Palomar-Quest Survey Team
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