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The First Data Release of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey

  • Hu Zou
  • , Tianmeng Zhang
  • , Zhimin Zhou
  • , Jundan Nie
  • , Xiyan Peng
  • , Xu Zhou
  • , Linhua Jiang
  • , Zheng Cai
  • , Arjun Dey
  • , Xiaohui Fan
  • , Dongwei Fan
  • , Yucheng Guo
  • , Boliang He
  • , Zhaoji Jiang
  • , Dustin Lang
  • , Michael Lesser
  • , Zefeng Li
  • , Jun Ma
  • , Shude Mao
  • , Ian McGreer
  • David Schlegel, Yali Shao, Jiali Wang, Shu Wang, Jin Wu, Xiaohan Wu, Qian Yang, Minghao Yue

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Abstract

The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) is a new wide-field legacy imaging survey in the northern Galactic cap using the 2.3 m Bok telescope. The survey will cover about 5400 deg2 in the g and r bands, and the expected 5σ depths (corrected for the Galactic extinction) in these two bands are g = 24.0 and r = 23.4 mag (AB magnitude). BASS started observations in 2015 January and had completed about 41% of the area as of 2016 July. The first data release contains calibrated images obtained in 2015 and 2016 and their corresponding single-epoch and co-added catalogs. The actual depths of the single-epoch images are g ∼ 23.4 and r ∼ 22.9 mag. The full depths of the three epochs are g ∼ 24.1 and r ∼ 23.5 mag.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number276
JournalAstronomical Journal
Volume153
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2017

Keywords

  • surveys
  • techniques: image processing
  • techniques: photometric

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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