Cataloging of the Digitized POSS-II, and Some Initial Scientific Results From It

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1996-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9612108v1

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to appear in New Horizons From Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #179, eds. B. McLean et al. (Dordrec

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We are conducting an effort to catalog all sources detected in the digitized POSS-II (DPOSS). This is now becoming an international collaboration including Caltech and the Observatories of Rome and Naples (project CRONA). There are also ongoing extensive CCD calibration efforts at Palomar. The resulting Palomar-Norris Sky Catalog (PNSC) is expected to contain > 5 x 10^7 galaxies, and > 2 x 10^9 stars, in 3 colors (photographic JFN bands, calibrated to CCD gri system), down to the limiting magnitude equivalent of B approx 22 mag. The star-galaxy classification is accurate to 90 - 95% down to the equivalent of B approx 21 mag. The catalog will be made available to the community via computer networks or other suitable media, probably in installments, as soon as scientific validation and quality checks are completed and the funding allows it. Analysis and manipulation software will also be freely available. A great variety of scientific projects will be possible with this vast new data base, including studies of the large-scale structure in the universe, the Galactic structure, automatic optical identifications of sources from radio through x-ray bands, generation of objectively defined catalogs of clusters and groups of galaxies, generation of statistically complete catalogs of galaxies to be used in future redshift surveys, searches for high-redshift quasars and other active objects, searches for variable or extreme-color objects, etc. We have already started work on a number of such projects, and we summarize briefly some of the results obtained to date.

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