Useful Material and other Survey Projects

COBE/IRAS Reddening Maps Princeton Berkeley ADS Abstract

SIRTF First Look Survey Launch Dec 2001; Survey occurs immediately after the nominal 60 day checkout

1620+5430 1deg^2 [ELAIS N1]
1715+5930 4deg^2

CFHT

8K and 12K
MEGACAM [science case]

NOAO

Supporting Capabilities for large Telescopes

NOAO Deep Wide Survey [remote copy] [local copy] Not Public

Field	RA, Dec (J2000)	Gal(l,b)	Ecliptic (long,lat)
Spring (3x3degree)	14^h 32^m 05.72^s, +34^o 16' 47.5''	57.4, 67.3	200.4, 46.0
Autumn (2x4.5degree)	02^h 10^m 00.00^s, -04^o 30' 00.0''	166.0, 60.6	28.7, -16.6

Lauer, Postman Deep Range 16deg^2 I band only survey Not Public

Field RA, Dec (J2000) Gal(l,b) Ecliptic (long,lat)

Deep Range (4x4degree) 10^h 13^m 27.95^s, +52^o 36' 43.5''

Field	RA, Dec (J2000)	Gal(l,b)	Ecliptic (long,lat)
Deep Range (4x4degree)	10^h 13^m 27.95^s, +52^o 36' 43.5''

ESO Imaging Survey

**Field Centers (J2000) for EIS-WIDE**
Field	RA	DEC
A	22 42 54	-39 28 00
B (SGP)	00 51 00	-28 54 00
C	05 38 24	-23 51 00
D	09 51 36	-21 00 00

Scientific Case and Observing Proposals [remote copy] [local copy in preparation]

NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey Planned Detection Limits
Bands	AB mag.	Vega mag.	AB mag.	Vega mag.
	5-sig Detection Limit in 2" Aperture		1-sig Surf. Brightness Limit per square arcsec
B_W	26.6	26.6	29.0	29.0
R	26.0	25.8	28.4	28.2
I	26.0	25.5	28.4	27.9
J	21.0	20.2	23.4	22.6
H	21.0	19.6	23.4	22.0
K	21.4	19.5	23.8	21.9

SDSS [Main Portal at Fermilab]

Pixels are 0.40 arcsec; the optical system delivers 0.8 arcsec images.

The following table gives limits for point sources on the AB system:

filter	lambda_c (Å)	delta lambda (Å)	S/N = 10	saturation
u'	3543	567	21.4	12.1
g'	4770	1387	22.6	14.1
r'	6231	1373	22.3	14.1
i'	7625	1526	21.7	13.8
z'	9134	950	20.1	12.3

Photometric calibrations are enabled by a dedicated 20-inch Photometric Telescope (atmospheric extinction, calibration of fainter stars with respect to brighter fundamental standards).

Astrometric calibrations are enabled by special CCDs in the focal plane of the 2.5-meter telescope, capable of measuring standard stars in the range 8.3 < r' < 16.5.

Data products include: merged 5-band catalogues of image parameters (position, flux, size, profile); "atlas images" (cut-out pixel maps around each detected object); link to spectrum (if available). copied from http://www.sdss.org/science on 1999-09-15 by rgm see also the proposed DSS data release schedule with no data released until the start of 2003 ie over 3 years from the end of 1999.

Scientific Case: Black Book [remote copy]
online papers

AAT-2DF

VLT-VIRMOS

Deep

VST- VLT Survey Telescope

OmegaCam for VST

Cambridge Astronomy Homepage | Richard McMahon' Homepage
IOA Instrumentation Group Homepage | Sackler Camera Homepage

Richard McMahon, rgm@ast.cam.ac.uk

Last modified: Thu May 11 22:44:18 2000

Useful Material and other Survey Projects

NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey Planned Detection Limits