Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-10-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
This paper will be published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4836 and is made available as an electronic preprint with permission of
Scientific paper
10.1117/12.457953
The Supernova/Acceleration Probe (SNAP) is a proposed space-borne observatory that will survey the sky with a wide-field optical/near-infrared (NIR) imager. The images produced by SNAP will have an unprecedented combination of depth, solid-angle, angular resolution, and temporal sampling. For 16 months each, two 7.5 square-degree fields will be observed every four days to a magnitude depth of AB=27.7 in each of the SNAP filters, spanning 3500-17000\AA. Co-adding images over all epochs will give AB=30.3 per filter. In addition, a 300 square-degree field will be surveyed to AB=28 per filter, with no repeated temporal sampling. Although the survey strategy is tailored for supernova and weak gravitational lensing observations, the resulting data will support a broad range of auxiliary science programs.
for the SNAP Collaboration
Kim Alex
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