Tom Shanks tom.shanks@durham.ac.uk
Tom Shanks tom.shanks@durham.ac.uk
Nicola R. Napolitano
Editor
Giuseppe Longo
Editor
Marcella Marconi
Editor
Maurizio Paolillo
Editor
Enrichetta Iodice
Editor
I first review the status of Digital Sky Surveys. The focus will be on extragalactic surveys with an area of more than 100 deg2. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is the archetype of such imaging surveys and it is its great success that has prompted great activity in this field. The latest surveys explore wider, fainter and higher resolution and also a longer wavelength range than SDSS. Many of these surveys overlap particularly in the S Hemisphere where we now have Pan-STARRS, DES and the ESO VST surveys, and our aim here is to compare their properties. Since there is no dedicated article on the VST ATLAS in this symposium, we shall especially review the properties of this particular survey. This easily fits onto our other main focus which is to compare overlapping Southern Surveys and see how they best fit with the available NIR imaging data. We conclude that the Southern Hemisphere will soon overtake the North in terms of multiwavelength imaging. However we note that the South has more limited opportunities for spectroscopic follow-up and this weakness will persist during the LSST era. Some new perspectives are offered on this and other aspects of survey astronomy.
Shanks, T. (2016). Digital Sky Surveys from the ground: Status and Perspectives. In N. R. Napolitano, G. Longo, M. Marconi, M. Paolillo, & E. Iodice (Eds.), The universe of digital sky surveys : a meeting to honour the 70th birthday of Massimo Capaccioli (9-24). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19330-4_2
Publication Date | Jun 1, 2016 |
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Deposit Date | May 30, 2016 |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Pages | 9-24 |
Series Title | Astronomy Group |
Book Title | The universe of digital sky surveys : a meeting to honour the 70th birthday of Massimo Capaccioli. |
Chapter Number | 1 |
ISBN | 9783319193298 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19330-4_2 |
Related Public URLs | http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07694 |
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