Palomar-QUEST: A case study in designing sky surveys in the VO era

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dc.creatorGraham, Matthew J.
dc.creatorWilliams, Roy
dc.creatorDjorgovski, S. G.
dc.creatorMahabal, Ashish
dc.creatorBaltay, Charles
dc.creatorRabinowitz, Dave
dc.creatorBauer, Anne
dc.creatorSnyder, Jeff
dc.creatorMorgan, Nick
dc.creatorAndrews, Peter
dc.creatorSzalay, Alexander S.
dc.creatorBrunner, Robert J.
dc.creatorMusser, Jim
dc.date2004-02-25
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:12:24Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:12:24Z
dc.descriptionThe advent of wide-area multicolour synoptic sky surveys is leading to data sets unprecedented in size, complexity and data throughput. VO technology offers a way to exploit these to the full but requires changes in design philosophy. The Palomar-QUEST survey is a major new survey being undertaken by Caltech, Yale, JPL and Indiana University to repeatedly observe 1/3 of the sky (~15000 sq. deg. between -27 < Dec <27 in seven passbands. Utilising the 48-inch Oschin Schmidt Telescope at the Palomar Observatory with the 112-CCD QUEST camera covering the full 4 x 4 sq. deg. field of view, it will generate \~1TB of data per month. In this paper, we review the design of QUEST as a VO resource, a federated data set and an exemplar of VO standards.
dc.description4 pages, 1 figure, published in ADASS XIII proceedings
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402616
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402616
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/7439
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titlePalomar-QUEST: A case study in designing sky surveys in the VO era
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