SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey: a valuable resource for stellar astrophysics

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dc.creatorMurphy, Simon J.
dc.creatorKeller, Stefan C.
dc.creatorSchmidt, Brian
dc.creatorTisserand, Patrick
dc.creatorBessell, Michael
dc.creatorFrancis, Paul
dc.creatorDa Costa, Gary
dc.date2008-06-11
dc.date2008-06-14
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:44:19Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:44:19Z
dc.descriptionThe Australian National University's SkyMapper telescope is amongst the first of a new generation of dedicated wide-field survey telescopes. Featuring a 5.7 square deg field-of-view Cassegrain imager and 268 Mega-pixel CCD array, its primary goal will be to undertake the Southern Sky Survey: a six color (uvgriz), six-epoch digital record of the entire southern sky. The survey will provide photometry for objects between 8th and 23rd magnitude with a global photometric accuracy of 0.03 magnitudes and astrometry to 50 mas. In this contribution we introduce the SkyMapper facility, the survey data products and outline a variety of case-studies in stellar astrophysics for which SkyMapper will have high impact.
dc.description5 pages, 4 figures. v2: corrected author list. To appear in proceedings of the 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics, Phuket, 2008
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1770
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1770
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/162831
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleSkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey: a valuable resource for stellar astrophysics
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