The SkyMapper Transient Survey
The SkyMapper Transient Survey
The SkyMapper 1.3 m telescope at Siding Spring Observatory has now begun regular operations. Alongside the Southern Sky Survey, a comprehensive digital survey of the entire southern sky, SkyMapper will carry out a search for supernovae and other transients. The search strategy, covering a total footprint area of ~2 000 deg2 with a cadence of ⩽5 d, is optimised for discovery and follow-up of low-redshift type Ia supernovae to constrain cosmic expansion and peculiar velocities. We describe the search operations and infrastructure, including a parallelised software pipeline to discover variable objects in difference imaging; simulations of the performance of the survey over its lifetime; public access to discovered transients; and some first results from the Science Verification data.
Scalzo, R.
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Yuan, F.
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Childress, M.J.
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Möller, A.
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Schmidt, B.P.
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2017
Scalzo, R.
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Yuan, F.
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Childress, M.J.
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Möller, A.
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Schmidt, B.P.
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Scalzo, R., Yuan, F., Childress, M.J., Möller, A. and Schmidt, B.P.
(2017)
The SkyMapper Transient Survey.
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 34, [e030].
(doi:10.1017/pasa.2017.24).
Abstract
The SkyMapper 1.3 m telescope at Siding Spring Observatory has now begun regular operations. Alongside the Southern Sky Survey, a comprehensive digital survey of the entire southern sky, SkyMapper will carry out a search for supernovae and other transients. The search strategy, covering a total footprint area of ~2 000 deg2 with a cadence of ⩽5 d, is optimised for discovery and follow-up of low-redshift type Ia supernovae to constrain cosmic expansion and peculiar velocities. We describe the search operations and infrastructure, including a parallelised software pipeline to discover variable objects in difference imaging; simulations of the performance of the survey over its lifetime; public access to discovered transients; and some first results from the Science Verification data.
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Accepted/In Press date: 3 July 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 17 July 2017
Published date: 2017
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/413110
ISSN: 1323-3580
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R. Scalzo
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F. Yuan
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M.J. Childress
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A. Möller
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B.P. Schmidt
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