The Deep Lens Survey

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2002-10-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210118v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

to appear in Proc. SPIE Vol. 4836. v2 contains very minor changes

Scientific paper

10.1117/12.457348

The Deep Lens Survey (DLS) is a deep BVRz' imaging survey of seven 2x2 degree fields, with all data to be made public. The primary scientific driver is weak gravitational lensing, but the survey is also designed to enable a wide array of other astrophysical investigations. A unique feature of this survey is the search for transient phenomena. We subtract multiple exposures of a field, detect differences, classify, and release transients on the Web within about an hour of observation. Here we summarize the scientific goals of the DLS, field and filter selection, observing techniques and current status, data reduction, data products and release, and transient detections. Finally, we discuss some lessons which might apply to future large surveys such as LSST.

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