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The SkyMapper Transient Survey

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.
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Scalzo, R.
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Yuan, F.
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Childress, M.J.
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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).

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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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Local EPrints ID: 413110
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/413110
ISSN: 1323-3580
PURE UUID: 0057bf31-3485-4a6a-822e-674df080e09f

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Date deposited: 15 Aug 2017 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 05:38

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Author: R. Scalzo
Author: F. Yuan
Author: M.J. Childress
Author: A. Möller
Author: B.P. Schmidt

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