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The SkyMapper Transient Survey
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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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 ~2000 deg2 with a cadence of $\leq 5$ days, 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.<br />Comment: 13 pages, 11 figures; submitted to PASA
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1702.05585
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2017.24