Astronomical survey projects
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2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
( 2dF )
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2dF QSO Redshift Survey
( 2QZ )
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The official home page of the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey
(2QZ), an Anglo-Australian collaboration surveying 740 square degrees of high-galactic
lattiude sky. It will contain more than 25 000 z<3
QSOs, making it far the largest QSO survey in existence.
This web page describes the survey objectives, current status and
will be the primary site for public access to the
data when the survey is complete.
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Aladin Sky Atlas
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Aladin is an interactive sky atlas, developed at CDS (Strasbourg,
France), allowing the user to visualize digitized images of any
part of the sky, to superimpose entries from astronomical catalogs
or personal user data files, and to interactively access related
data and information from the Simbad, NED, and Vizier databases
for all known objects in the field.
The set
of sky images consists of the STScI Digital Sky Survey
(DSS-I and DSS-II), as well as an ensemble of higher
resolution images (ESO-R and SERC plates) digitized at the MAMA
facility in Paris.
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All-sky Low Energy Gamma Ray Observatory
( ALEGRO )
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ALLEGRO is a proposed MidEx class instrument providing all-sky monitoring
of low-energy gamma-rays at unprecedented sensitivity. Unlike previous hard X-ray
experiments, there is no time-averaging, data-selection, or triggering on-board: ALLEGRO
transmits all events, time-tagged to 1/8th ms and with full
energy information. This produces a database of uniformly high resolution
in both energy and time, permitting non-triggered, unbiased detection of
transient and pulsed events.
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Andromeda Galaxy and Amplified Pixels Experiment
( AGAPE )
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AGAPE (Andromeda Galaxy and Amplified Pixels Experiment) is a French
collaboration between CNRS (IN2P3 and INSU) and
CEA (DSM/DAPNIA) laboratories.
The project is a search
for microlensing on unresolved stars of the Andromeda M31 galaxy
by MACHOs (baryonic dark matter candidates) of the halo of
the Milky Way as well as of the halo of
M31.
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APM Galaxy Survey
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The APM Galaxy Survey
contains over 2 million galaxies with Bj < 20.5 in
the South Galactic Cap. This page provides a summary of
the survey and some pretty pictures.
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APM POSS and UKST Sky Catalogues
( APMCAT )
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WWW access to machine based catalagues produced from Cambridge APM
(Automatic Plate Measuring) Machine scans of UKST, POSS1 and POSS2
plates. The catalogues consist of both blue and red plate
catalogues (i.e. O and E for POSS1 and B and
R for UKST and POSS2). The catalogues are complete for
mod(b)>30 degrees in the Northern Hemisphere and partially complete in
the Southern Celestial Hemisphere.
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APS Catalog of POSS I
( Univ. Minnesota )
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The APS Catalog of the POSS I contains millions of
entries for stars and galaxies, and the corresponding Image Database
contains their pixels and more. The data behind the Object
Catalog and Image Database are generated from digitized Palomar Observatory
Sky Survey plates. Object Catalog entries include calibrated magnitudes in
two colors, positions to 0.2 arcseconds, confidence measures on neural
network image classifications, colors, and various other useful parameters.
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ATNF Parkes 21cm Multibeam Survey
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The Parkes 64-m telescope is commencing an HI Southern Sky
and Zone of Avoidance survey in 1996. The survey will
cover redshifts up to 0.04, and be sensitive to objects
with HI mass between 10^6 and 10^10 solar masses, depending
on distance. This will be the first extensive "blind" survey
of the 21cm extragalactic sky.
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Balloon-borne Observations Of
Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation ANd Geophysics
( BOOMERanG )
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BOOMERANG is an instrument designed to measure anisotropies in the
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.
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Big Ear Radio Observatory
( Ohio State University )
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Big Ear is a Kraus-type radio telescope which covers an
area larger than three football fields. The telescope is famous
for discovering some of the most distant known objects in
the universe, and the longest-running SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence)
project.
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Caltech Millimeter Array
( Owens Valley Radio Observatory )
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Canadian Galactic Plane Survey
( CGPS )
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The CGPS is an international effort to map the interstellar
matter in a large swath of our own Milky Way
Galaxy at high resolution (atomic hydrogen and radio continuum emission).
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Carlsberg Meridian Telescope
( CMT )
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The Carlsberg Meridian Telescope (formerly the Carlsberg Automatic Meridian Circle)
is located on La Palma and is dedicated to carrying
out high-precision optical astrometry.
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Catalog of Infrared Observations
( CIO )
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The Catalog of Infrared Observations is a database of over
200,000 published infrared observations of more than 10,000 individual astronomical
sources over the wavelength range from 1 to 1000 microns.
The catalog is available for downloading via ftp.
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Consortium for European Research on Extragalactic Surveys
( CERES )
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CERES is a research network funded by the European Union
through its Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) programme. The
coordinator is Ian Browne at Jodrell Bank.
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Darwin
( Space IR Interferometry Mission )
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Darwin is a proposal for a European infrared
interferometer in space. Its first aim is to detect Earth-like
planets around nearby stars, and then to search for a
signature of life, ozone in an atmosphere. It could also
be used as a general-purpose infrared observatory.
Darwin
was proposed to the European Space Agency (ESA) for
a Cornerstone Mission in its Horizon 2000 Plus plan. In
October 1995, ESA decided to study such an infrared interferometer
as an option for its Interferometer Cornerstone. The Darwin
and Edison teams have combined to promote
the selection by ESA of this option. The Darwin
advocacy team members are also members of the
International Working Group on Space Interferometry , a pressure group
for this type of mission. Final selection on cost, science
and technology grounds will be made around 2000, for a
launch in the period 2009 - 2017.
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DEep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky
( DENIS - Leiden )
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DENIS will be a complete deep near infrared survey of
the southern sky, with the objective to provide full coverage
in 2 near infrared bands (J at 1.25 micron and
K at 2.2 micron) and one optical band (I at
0.8 micron), using a ground-based telescope and digital array detectors.
The products of this survey will be databases of calibrated
images, extended sources, and small objects. In addition catalogs of
small and extended sources will be produced. We expect the
survey to be completed within five years; restricted access to
the databases is possible during the second half of the
survey. The production of catalogs (to be distributed) will take
a few additional years.
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DEep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky: Point Source Database
( DENIS )
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DENIS is a deep astronomical survey of the Southern Sky
in two near-infrared bands (J at 1.25 µ and K
at 2.16 µ) and one optical band (I at 0.8
µ) simultaneously, conducted by a European consortium, using a one
meter telescope (ESO, La Silla). The survey started in 1996
and is expected to be completed in 2000.
The Centre
de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) is implementing the final
point source databases and is providing access of the processed
and calibrated data to the worldwide community.
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Digital Sky Survey
( DSS )
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The Digitized Sky Survey comprises a set of all-sky photographic
surveys in E, V, J, R, and N bands conducted
with the Palomar and UK Schmidt telescopes. The Catalogs and
Surveys Branch (CASB) is digitizing the photographic plates to support
HST observing programs but also as a service to the
astronomical community.
Images of any part of the sky
may be extracted from the DSS, in either FITS or
GIF format.
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Digitized Palomar Observatory Sky
( DPOSS )
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DPOSS is a program to photograph and catalog the entire
Northern Sky.
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DIRECT Project
( Determining the distances to nearby galaxies )
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We undertook a long term project, DIRECT, to obtain the
direct distances to two important galaxies in the cosmological distance
ladder -- M31 and M33, using detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs)
and Cepheids.
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EROS Experiment
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In this (still experimental) server you may find general informations
as well as the latest publications/preprints from the EROS collaboration.
Our main topic is the search for microlensing amplification of
the luminosities of LMC/SMC stars.
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ESO Imaging Survey
( EIS )
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During 1997-1998 ESO carries out a deep, multicolor imaging survey
using EMMI on the NTT.
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Eso Nearby Abell Cluster Survey
( ENACS )
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ENACS is a database (Redshifts, positions, magnitudes) for more than
100 Nearby Abell Clusters
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ESO Slice Project: A Galaxy Redshift Survey in the South Galactic Pole Region
( ESP )
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Official Page of the ESO Slice Project. People can already
get useful information. The final data will be available directly
from this page.
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European Large Area ISO Survey
( ELAIS )
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ELAIS is a European collaborative venture to survey around thirteen
square degrees of the sky using the Infrared Space Observatory.
It is the largest single open time project of the
ISO mission and will produce maps and source lists at
7, 15,90 and 175 microns
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Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters
( VLA FIRST )
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FIRST -- Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm
-- is a project designed to produce the radio equivalent
of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey over 10,000 square degrees
of the North Galactic Cap. Using the NRAO Very Large
Array (VLA) and an automated mapping pipeline, we produce images
with 1.8" pixels, a typical rms of 150 Jy, and
a resolution of 5" . At the 0.75 mJy source
detection threshold, there are ~110 sources per square degree, ~35%
of which have resolved structure on scales from 2-30" .
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FIRBACK Survey
( IAS, Orsay )
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FIRBACK is a cosmological survey which used the Infrared
Space Observatory to study the Cosmic Far Infrared Background, and
distant galaxies.
The final products will include: -
maps and galaxy catalogs of 3 fields of 4 square
degree at 175 microns (using ISOPHOT)
- maps of
some interesting sources at 90 microns (using ISOPHOT)
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maps and galaxy catalogs of 1 fields of 1 square
degree at 15 microns (using ISOCAM)
- maps and
catalogs at various other wavelengths, from optical to radio.
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Hipparcos
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Hipparcos space astrometry mission: Professionals, amateurs, and educators in astronomer
should be interested in the (updated) Hipparcos astrometry mission www
page, maintained by ESA. The monumental Hipparcos and Tycho star
catalogues, with stellar positions, distances, and proper motions, double star
data, and photometry (including thousands of light curves) was completed
in June 1997. The 17-volume publication (including 6 ASCII CD-ROMs)
can be ordered via the www page; the main catalogues
can also be searched on-line, by object or sky region,
with hyperlinks to the principal annexes. An "Educational Page" offers
some ideas for observational projects for amateurs or for student
projects, with the facility to search for the periods of
variable stars interactively.
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Hubble Deep Field
( HDF )
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The Hubble Deep Field (HDF) is a Director's Discretionary program
on HST in Cycle 5 to image a typical field
at high galactic latitude in four wavelength passbands as deeply
as reasonably possible. In order to optimize observing in the
time available, a field in the northern continuous viewing zone
(CVZ) was selected and images were taken for 10 consecutive
days, or approximately 150 orbits. Shorter 1-orbit images were also
obtained of the fields immediately adjacent to the primary HDF
in order to facilitate spectroscopic follow-up by ground-based telescopes. The
observations were carried out from 18-30 December 1995, and the
data are available to the community for study.
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INTEGRAL Science Data Centre
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The INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) is a medium size
mission of the European Space Agency dedicated to gamma-ray
astronomy. The INTEGRAL Science Data Center (ISDC) located in Geneva
is the link between the astronomical community at large and
the INTEGRAL spacecraft.
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IRAS PSC Redshift Survey
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The IRAS Point Source Catalog redshift survey is a survey
of (almost) all of the 15,000 galaxies brighter than 0.6
Jansky at 60 microns, over 83% of the whole sky.
The survey is virtually complete as of Jan 1995, and
results on large-scale structure should appear in the next few
months.
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ISO-HDF
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The ISO-HDF project has mapped the Hubble Deep Field at
6.7 and 15 microns, using the ISOCAM camera on the
Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). Data and analysis products are made
available to the community via this WWW page.
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ISOGAL
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ISOGAL is a 7 and 15 micron survey of the
inner Galactic disk performed with the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO)
camera, ISOCAM, mostly with 6" pixels.
The ISOGAL sources
are systematically cross-identified with the KJI sources of the DENIS
survey.
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Las Campanas Redshift Survey
( LCRS )
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Las Campanas Redshift Survey data and publications
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MACHO project
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The MACHO project is
searching for dark matter in the form of Massive Compact
Halo Objects (MACHOs) using gravitational microlensing. We search for these
events by monitoring over 10 million stars every night in
the LMC and Galactic bulge, using the dedicated 50-inch telescope
at Mt. Stromlo.
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Medium Deep Survey
( MDS )
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The Medium Deep Survey (MDS) is an international project that
uses the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in Pure parallel mode
to study the nature of faint galaxies in the deepest
regions of the universe. The released MDS database contains model
fits for about 64000 objects in 185 WFPC2 fields, observed
in most cases using the F814W(I), F606W(V) and for few
in F450W(B) photometric filters. Some fields overlap each other, and
duplicate observations of the same object has not yet been
cross-identified.
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Multiwavelength Milky Way
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Images of the Milky Way galaxy in the light of
several spectral lines and continuum bands, spanning the electromagnetic spectrum
from radio to high-energy gamma-ray, are presented. The display is
interactive, allowing zooming and panning of the images, each of
which covers the entire sky within ten degrees of the
Galactic plane. Explanatory text and links to the data sources
and references are included. The Multiwavelength Milky Way site is
an educational service of the Astrophysics Data Facility at NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Nearby Field Galaxy Survey
( NFGS )
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The Nearby Field Galaxy Survey (NFGS) is a collaborative effort
to construct a photometric and spectrophotometric reference atlas and catalog
of the observable properties of ~200 nearby field galaxies. The
galaxies span a wide range in luminosity and color, and
are of all morphological types. This survey is designed to
be a benchmark for interpreting the spectra and imagery of
distant galaxies. (A U.S. mirror is located at http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~jansen/nfgs/).
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NRAO VLA Sky Survey
( NVSS )
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The NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) is mapping the sky
north of -40 deg declination at 1.4 GHz. The principal
data products are (1) 4 deg X 4 deg continuum
maps " cubes" with three planes containing Stokes I, Q,
and U images, (2) source lists, and (3) processed (u,v)
data sets. The maps have 45 arcsec FWHM resolution and
nearly uniform rms noise, about 0.45 mJy/beam = 0.14 K
(Stokes I) and 0.29 mJy/beam (Stokes Q and U). The
rms uncertainties in right ascension and declination vary from 0.3
arcsec for strong (S > 30 mJy) point sources to
5 arcsec for the faintest (S ~ 2.5 mJy) detectable
sources.
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Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
( OGLE - Warsaw University )
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The OGLE project is a long term microlensing survey with
main target being the search for dark matter in the
Galaxy and possibly also in the Magellanic Clouds. The second
phase of the project is realized on a dedicated 1.3m
Warsaw telescope located in Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. Every night
up to 30 million stars are measured in the Galactic
Bulge, LMC and SMC.
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Postage Stamp Server for NVSS Radio Sky Survey
( NVSS Postage Stamp Server )
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This Web page allows the user to obtain "postage stamp"
FITS images of selected, small fields from the NRAO/VLA Sky
Survey (NVSS). Either 1950 or 2000 positions are supported as
are a number of projective geometries. This survey is being
done with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array
telescope at a wavelength of 20 cm (1.4 GHz) and
is producing images of the sky north of declination -40
deg with a resolution of 45". Both total intensity and
linear polarization is being imaged. This project began in September
1993 and the main body of observations will be finished
in the Summer of 1996. Results are being made available
as they are produced.
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Probing Lensing Anomalies
NETwork
( PLANET )
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The PLANET collaboration is a worldwide network of astronomers with
access to Dutch, South African, and Australian telescopes. The primary
goal of PLANET is the study of microlensing anomalies (departures
from an achromatic point-source, point-lens light curve) through multi-band, rapidly-sampled
photometry. An ultimate goal is to place constraints on the
number and distribution of planets around other stars.
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Radio Surveys of the Southern and Northern Sky
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This page attempts to list some of the survey work
at radio wavelengths in both the southern and northern hemispheres.
Links to the data from these surveys are included, where
available.
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ROSAT All Sky Survey
( RASS at MPE )
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The ROSAT All-Sky X-ray Survey was obtained during 1990/1991 using
the ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter (PSPC) in combination with
the ROSAT X-ray Telescope (XRT).
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Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
( ROE )
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This site offers information about the extensive activities of the
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, a PPARC establishment responsible for building common-user
IR and sub-mm instrumentation and managing telescope sites and data
archive resources, as well as the UK Schmidt Telescope and
the SuperCOSMOS measuring machine. The ROE site also has links
to, or acts as the home page for:
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Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh;
- latest research
e-prints;
- the Crawford library;
- the ROE Visitor Centre;
- the UKIRT data archive;
- Public Understanding of Science;
- ROE Photolabs;
- Teacher Research Inititive
and much more
information besides.
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SDSS Science Archive
( JHU/SDSS )
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is a project to survey
a 10000 square degree area on the Northern sky over
a 5 year period. A dedicated 2.5m telescope is specially
designed to take wide field (3x3 degree) images using a
5x6 mosaic of 2048x2048 CCD's, in five wavelength bands, operating
in scanning mode. The total raw data will exceed 40
TB. A processed subset, of about 1 TB in size,
will consist of 1 million spectra, positions and image parameters
for over 100 million objects, plus a mini-image centered on
each object in every color. The data will be made
available to the public after the completion of the survey.
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SERENDIP
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The UC Berkeley SETI Program, SERENDIP (Search for Extraterrestrial Radio
Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations) is an ongoing scientific
research effort aimed at detecting radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations.
The project is the world's only " piggyback" SETI system,
operating alongside simultaneously conducted conventional radio astronomy observations. SERENDIP is
currently piggybacking on the 1,000-foot dish at Arecibo Observatory in
Puerto Rico, the largest radio telescope in the world.
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SETI Australia Centre
( UWS )
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Australia Center supports SETI-related
high school and university science education, SETI research and public
outreach programs from the University of Western Sydney Macarthur. Its
research project, Southern SERENDIP, is an eight million channel spectrum
analyzer piggy-backing onto conventional radio astronomy observations for the next
five years at the Parkes 64 metre radio telescope in
NSW,Australia.
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SETI Institute Home Page
( SETI )
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The SETI Institute (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) serves as
an institutional home for scientific and educational projects relevant to
the nature, distribution, and prevalence of life in the universe.
The largest research effort is Project Phoenix, the privately-funded continuation
of the Targeted Search portion of NASA's High Resolution Microwave
Survey. Two other projects of interest are the Life in
the Universe (LITU) Curriculum Project and the Flight Opportunities for
Science Teacher EnRichment (FOSTER) Project. LITU develops supplementary science curriculum
material for grades 3 through 9. FOSTER allows science teachers
to experience the excitement of research on NASA's Kuiper Airborne
Observatory (KAO).
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SETI@home
( SETI at home )
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SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in
the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by
running a free program that downloads and analyzes batches of
radio telescope data, for signals which may be transimtted by
intelligent extra terrestrial life.
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SHARC Survey Home Page
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The SHARC survey is a large survey for high-redshift x-ray-luminous
clusters of galaxies. Our home page has lists of cluster
candidates, links to papers about the survey, and much more
information.
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SkyView
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SkyView is a facility available over the net which allows
users to retrieve data from public all-sky surveys conveniently. The
user enters the position and size of the region desired,
and the surveys wanted and the data is extracted and
formatted for the user. Documentation available through anonymous ftp.
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Sloan Digital Sky Survey
( SDSS at Fermilab )
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- In the pi steradians of the available North
Galactic Pole (b > 30 degrees), we shall conduct surveys
in the following manner: Obtain a photometric survey, in four
or five filters to 23rd magnitude (R), 5 sigma, for
stellar objects; obtain redshifts for all galaxies down to 19th
magnitude (B); obtain redshifts for all QSOs down to 20th
magnitude (B).
- In the available South Galactic Pole region
there will be a deeper survey in a strip 2
degrees (dec) by 50 degrees, in order to: obtain a
photometric survey, in four or five filters to 25th magnitude
(R), 5 sigma, for stellar objects; obtain redshifts for all
galaxies down to 20th magnitude (B); obtain redshifts for all
QSOs down to 21st magnitude (B).
- In the additional
available sky covering the Galactic disk, a deep photometric survey
will be conducted on a best effort basis to 23rd
magnitude (R), 5 sigma.
The following resources are similar (same sort-key, different text):
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Sloan Digital Sky Survey
( SDSS )
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey's goal is to probe the
large-scale structure of the universe by systematically mapping in detail
one fourth of the sky. The survey will produce a
catalog of roughly 100 million objects, with redshifts to more
than a million galaxies and quasars.
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Space Telescope Science Institute
( STScI )
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STScI is responsible for the scientific operations of the Hubble
Space Telescope (HST). STScI is operated by Associated Universities for
Research in Astronomy (AURA) under contract to NASA.
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Stardial:an autonomous astronomical camera on the World Wide Web
( Stardial )
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Stardial delivers images of the night sky nearly in real-time
to the world wide web. It is used primarily for
educational purposes. Its archive consists of images taken at 15
minute (sidereal) intervals since July 1996. The survey covers from
0 to -8 degrees declination to 12th magnitude. Highlights and
possible classroom assignments are described.
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SuperCOSMOS
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SuperCOSMOS is the Royal Observatory Edinburgh's advanced photographic plate digitising
machine. It succeeds COSMOS which was in operation at the
ROE until December 1993, and is 10 times more powerful
than its predecessor.
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Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey
( SUMSS )
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SUMSS is a deep radio survey of the entire sky
south of declination -30 degrees, made using the Molonglo Observatory
Synthesis Telescope, operating at 843MHz and recording right-circular polarization.
SUMSS matches (approximately) the resolution and depth of the NRAO-VLA
Sky Survey (NVSS). The principal data products are mosaics which
cover a 4x4 degree square on the sky. The centres
of the mosaics mirror the NVSS centres in the north.
The resolution is 45" x 45"/sin(dec), and the rms noise
limit varies from 1.3 to 2mJy/beam (lower toward the south
celestial pole).
The survey began in March 1997 and
will take eight years to complete. SUMSS is suported by
funding from the Australian Research Council.
The primary reference
for a description of the survey is: Bock, D.,
Large, M. and Sadler, E.
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The Amateur Sky Survey
( TASS )
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The TASS project has constructed low-cost drift-scan cameras and distributed
them to sites around the world. The goal is to
monitor bright objects across a large section of the sky.
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Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) Image Gallery
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Gallery of three-color near-IR JHKs composite Atlas Images of interesting
and beautiful objects from the Two Micron All Sky Survey
(2MASS).
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Two Micron All-Sky Survey
( 2MASS )
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Infrared detector technology has made such huge advances in the
past decade that the only existing near-infrared sky survey, which
was carried out at Caltech nearly 25 years ago, no
longer serves as a useful context within which to interpret
observations or select sources for study. The University of Massachusetts
is therefore leading a new project, called the Two Micron
All Sky Survey (2MASS), which will canvas the entire sky
for stars and galaxies as much as 50,000 times fainter
than the stars seen in the last survey.
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UK Schmidt Telescope
( UKST )
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The initial task of the UKST was to construct a
photographic survey of the entire southern sky. The telescope still
takes some 700 plates a year - about half for
current surveys and the remainder taken at the request of
research astronomers around the world. To date the UKST has
taken over 17,000 plates, the plates are stored in the
Plate Library at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE) and represent
a huge source of data for the astronomical community. Some
300 active research programmes make use of UKST plate material.
Many plates are copied in the ROE Photolabs and sold
as Sky Atlases or Teaching Packages. In addition to its
photographic role the UKST also has a multi-object fibre spectroscopy
system known as FLAIR. e-mail ukstu@roe.ac.uk
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UTR-2 catalogue
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The very-low frequency sky survey of discrete sources has been
obtained in the Institute of Radio Astronomy of the Ukrainian
National Academy of Sciences (Kharkov, Ukraine) with the UTR-2 radio
telescope at a number of the lowest frequencies used in
contemporary radio astronomy within the range from 10 to 25
MHz.
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Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy
( VISTA )
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Preliminary web site for the project of a 4m Wide
Field Survey telescope for the Southern Hemisphere.
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VLT Survey Telescope
( VST )
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The VST project is a cooperation between the European Southern
Observatory (ESO) and the Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory (OAC) for the
study, design and construction of a wide field alt-az telescope
of 2.6 m aperture, specialized for high quality astronomical imaging
to be installed and operated on Cerro Paranal, next to
ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT).
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Vulcan Camera Project
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The Vulcan Camera Project, sponsored by NASA Ames Research Center,
is designed to detect transits of large extrasolar planets using
differential photometry. Vulcan uses a 15cm aperture refactor at Lick
Observatory to image a wide field in which ~6000 stars
are monitored for two months, in a search for the
~1% transit signal expect from a 51 Pegasi-type planet. Vulcan
is a ground-based test-bed for the proposed Kepler Mission to
detect Earth-sized exoplanets.
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Wide-Field Astronomy
( The New Era of )
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The New Era of Wide-Field Astronomy : A Conference to
be held in Preston (England), 21 - 24 August 2000.
We are at the beginning of a new era
in wide-field astronomy, with major new surveys now in production,
and with new telescopes and instruments, both ground- and space-based,
scheduled to be in production in the next few years.
This conference aims to review the present and future of
this exciting new era of wide-field astronomy, and to discuss
the optimum exploitation of the remarkable range of new facilities.
The conference will cover all aspects of the new era
- cosmology and both extragalactic and galactic astronomy, from X-ray
to radio.
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Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper
( WHAM )
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The Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper will produce a survey of H-Alpha
emission from the interstellar medium (ISM) over the entire northern
sky. The instrument combines a 24-inch telescope and a high-resolution,
6-inch Fabry-Perot spectrometer to achieve 8-12 km/s velocity resolution in
one-degree beams on the sky. By utilizing CCD technology, we
hope to attain a sensitivity level of 0.01 Rayleighs. This
survey, the first of ionized hydrogen in our galaxy, will
be used to explore the spatial and kinematic structure of
the warm ionized component of the ISM. WHAM is currently
at Pine Bluff Observatory but will move to Kitt Peak, Arizona in the Fall of 1996 for the
survey, which should take about 2 years.
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XMM Survey Science Centre
( XMM SSC )
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The XMM Survey Science Centre (SSC) has responsibilities within the
XMM project in three main areas:
- the
follow-up/identification programme for the XMM serendipitous X-ray sky survey
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the development of science analysis software for XMM
- the
"pipe-line processing" of all XMM observations.
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