| Title | Project Overview of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey |
| Authors | Zou, Hu Zhou, Xu Fan, Xiaohui Zhang, Tianmeng Zhou, Zhimin Nie, Jundan Peng, Xiyan McGreer, Ian Jiang, Linhua Dey, Arjun Fan, Dongwei He, Boliang Jiang, Zhaoji Lang, Dustin Lesser, Michael Ma, Jun Mao, Shude Schlegel, David Wang, Jiali |
| Affiliation | Chinese Acad Sci, Natl Astron Observ, Key Lab Opt Astron, Beijing 100012, Peoples R China. Univ Arizona, Steward Observ, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA. Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Astron & Space Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China. Peking Univ, Kavli Inst Astron & Astrophys, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China. Natl Opt Astron Observ, Tucson, AZ 85719 USA. Univ Toronto, David Dunlap Inst, Toronto, ON, Canada. Tsinghua Univ, Dept Phys, Beijing 100086, Peoples R China. Tsinghua Univ, Tsinghua Ctr Astrophys, Beijing 100086, Peoples R China. Univ Manchester, Jodrell Bank, Ctr Astrophys, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England. Lawrence Berkeley Natl Labortatory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA. |
| Keywords | methods: observational surveys OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY MILKY-WAY SDSS-III LUMINOSITY FUNCTION SATELLITES HALOS SUBSTRUCTURE ACCRETION MISSION STREAMS |
| Issue Date | 2017 |
| Publisher | PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC |
| Citation | PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC.2017,129(976). |
| Abstract | The Beijing Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) is a wide-field two-band photometric survey of the northern Galactic Cap using the 90Prime imager on the 2.3 m Bok telescope at Kitt Peak. It is a four-year collaboration between the National Astronomical Observatory of China and Steward Observatory, the University of Arizona, serving as one of the three imaging surveys to provide photometric input catalogs for target selection of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) project. BASS will take up to 240 dark/gray nights to cover an area of about 5400 deg(2) in the g and r bands. The 5 sigma limiting AB magnitudes for point sources in the two bands, corrected for the Galactic extinction, are 24.0 and 23.4 mag, respectively. BASS, together with other DESI imaging surveys, will provide unique science opportunities that cover a wide range of topics in both Galactic and extragalactic astronomy. |
| URI | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/473270 |
| ISSN | 0004-6280 |
| DOI | 10.1088/1538-3873/aa65ba |
| Indexed | SCI(E) |
| Appears in Collections: | 科维理天文与天体物理研究所 |
