The Observatorio Astrofisico de Javalambre. A planned facility for large scale surveys

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Nov 2011

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Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VI, Proceedings of the IX Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), held

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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All-sky surveys play a fundamental role for the development of Astrophysics. The need for large-scale surveys comes from two basic motivations: one is to make an inventory of sources as complete as possible and allow for their classification in families. The other is to attack some problems demanding the sampling of large volumes to give a detectable signal. New challenges, in particular in the domain of Cosmology are giving impulse to a new kind of large-scale surveys, combining area coverage, depth and accurate enough spectral information to recover the redshift and spectral energy distribution (SED) of the detected objects. New instruments are needed to satisfy the requirements of those large-scale surveys, in particular large Etendue telescopes. The Observatorio Astrofisico de Javalambre, OAJ, project includes a telescope of 2.5 m aperture, with a wide field of view, 3 degrees in diameter, and excellent image quality in the whole field. Taking into account that it is going to be fully devoted to carry out surveys, it will be the highest effective Etendue telescope up to date. The project is completed with a smaller, wide field auxiliary telescope. The Observatory is being built at Pico del Buitre, Sierra de Javalambre, Teruel, a site with excellent seeing and low sky surface brightness. The institution in charge of the Observatory is the Centro de Estudios de Fisica del Cosmos de Aragon, CEFCA, a new center created in Teruel for the operation and scientific exploitation of the Javalambre Observatory. CEFCA will be also in charge of the data management and archiving. The data will be made accessible to the community.The first planned scientific project is a multi-narrow-band photometric survey covering 8,000 square degrees, designed to produce precise SEDs, and photometric redshifts accurate at the 0.3 % level. A total of 42, 100-120 Å band pass filters covering most of the optical spectral range will be used. In this sense it is the development, at a much higher scale, of the ALHAMBRA survey. Its main goal is to measure the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations to determine the equation of state of the Universe but its unbiased character and depth will produce relevant data for most domains in Astrophysics.

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