Northern Sky Variability Survey (NSVS): Public data release

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2004-01-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401217v1

Astron.J.127:2436-2449,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted for publication in Astronomical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/382719

The Northern Sky Variability Survey (NSVS) is a temporal record of the sky over the optical magnitude range from 8 to 15.5. It was conducted in the course of the first generation Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE-I) using a robotic system of four co-mounted unfiltered telephoto lenses equipped with CCD cameras. The survey was conducted from Los Alamos, NM, and primarily covers the entire northern sky. Some data in southern fields between declinations 0 and -38 deg is also available, although with fewer epochs and noticeably lesser quality. The NSVS contains light curves for approximately 14 million objects. With a one year baseline and typically 100-500 measurements per object, the NSVS is the most extensive record of stellar variability across the bright sky available today. In a median field, bright unsaturated stars attain a point to point photometric scatter of ~0.02 mag and position errors within 2 arcsec. At Galactic latitudes |b| < 20 deg the data quality is limited by severe blending due to ~14 arcsec pixel size. We present basic characteristics of the data set and describe data collection, analysis, and distribution. All NSVS photometric measurements are available for on-line public access from the Sky Database for Objects in Time-Domain (SkyDOT; http://skydot.lanl.gov) at LANL. Copies of the full survey photometry may also be requested on tape.

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