Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aas...209.9805m&link_type=abstract
2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #98.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, V
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The SNAP mission will generate the first truly wide field optical/NIR surveys from space. Primary mission observations will include both a "narrow" deep survey covering about 15 square degrees to an AB magnitude fainter than 31 and a wide "shallow" survey covering about 1000 square degrees to an AB magnitude of 28. Both surveys will be conducted in six optical and three NIR filters, and will feature the high resolution and photometric stability made possible by a space platform. These imaging surveys will impact all areas of astronomy, including cosmology, galaxy formation and evolution, galaxy clusters, high redshift quasars, gravitational lensing, resolved stellar populations of near-by galaxies, cool stars in the Milky Way halo, and various transients. This poster presents an overview of some key SNAP auxiliary science prospects, with an emphasis on those topics which will be most advanced by use of a space platform.
McKay Timothy
SNAP Collaboration
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