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Digital Sky Surveys from the ground: Status and Perspectives

Shanks, T.

Authors

T. Shanks



Contributors

Nicola R. Napolitano
Editor

Giuseppe Longo
Editor

Marcella Marconi
Editor

Maurizio Paolillo
Editor

Enrichetta Iodice
Editor

Abstract

I first review the status of Digital Sky Surveys. The focus will be on extragalactic surveys with an area of more than 100 deg2. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is the archetype of such imaging surveys and it is its great success that has prompted great activity in this field. The latest surveys explore wider, fainter and higher resolution and also a longer wavelength range than SDSS. Many of these surveys overlap particularly in the S Hemisphere where we now have Pan-STARRS, DES and the ESO VST surveys, and our aim here is to compare their properties. Since there is no dedicated article on the VST ATLAS in this symposium, we shall especially review the properties of this particular survey. This easily fits onto our other main focus which is to compare overlapping Southern Surveys and see how they best fit with the available NIR imaging data. We conclude that the Southern Hemisphere will soon overtake the North in terms of multiwavelength imaging. However we note that the South has more limited opportunities for spectroscopic follow-up and this weakness will persist during the LSST era. Some new perspectives are offered on this and other aspects of survey astronomy.

Citation

Shanks, T. (2016). Digital Sky Surveys from the ground: Status and Perspectives. In N. R. Napolitano, G. Longo, M. Marconi, M. Paolillo, & E. Iodice (Eds.), The universe of digital sky surveys : a meeting to honour the 70th birthday of Massimo Capaccioli (9-24). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19330-4_2

Publication Date Jun 1, 2016
Deposit Date May 30, 2016
Publisher Springer Verlag
Pages 9-24
Series Title Astronomy Group
Book Title The universe of digital sky surveys : a meeting to honour the 70th birthday of Massimo Capaccioli.
Chapter Number 1
ISBN 9783319193298
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19330-4_2
Related Public URLs http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07694


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