SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey: a valuable resource for stellar astrophysics

Details SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey: a valuable resource for stellar astrophysics SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey: a valuable resource for stellar astrophysics

2008-06-11

arxiv.org/abs/0806.1770v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 4 figures. v2: corrected author list. To appear in proceedings of the 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophys

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The Australian National University's SkyMapper telescope is amongst the first of a new generation of dedicated wide-field survey telescopes. Featuring a 5.7 square deg field-of-view Cassegrain imager and 268 Mega-pixel CCD array, its primary goal will be to undertake the Southern Sky Survey: a six color (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.

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