SkyMapper Southern Survey: Data Release 4

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Autores principales: Onken, Christopher A., Wolf, Christian, Bessell, Michael S., Chang, Seo-Won, Luvaul, Lance C., Tonry, John L., White, Marc C., Da Costa, Gary S.
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author Onken, Christopher A.
Wolf, Christian
Bessell, Michael S.
Chang, Seo-Won
Luvaul, Lance C.
Tonry, John L.
White, Marc C.
Da Costa, Gary S.
author_facet Onken, Christopher A.
Wolf, Christian
Bessell, Michael S.
Chang, Seo-Won
Luvaul, Lance C.
Tonry, John L.
White, Marc C.
Da Costa, Gary S.
contents We present the fourth data release (DR4) of the SkyMapper Southern Survey (SMSS), the last major step in our hemispheric survey with six optical filters: u, v, g, r, i, z. SMSS DR4 covers 26,000 sq.deg from over 400,000 images acquired by the 1.3m SkyMapper telescope between 2014-03 and 2021-09. The 6-band sky coverage extends from the South Celestial Pole to Dec = +16deg, with some images reaching Dec ~ +28deg. In contrast to previous DRs, we include all good-quality images from the facility taken during that time span, not only those explicitly taken for the public Survey. From the image dataset, we produce a catalogue of nearly 13 billion detections made from ~700 million unique astrophysical objects. The typical 10sigma depths for each field range between 18.5 and 20.5 mag, depending on the filter, but certain sky regions include longer exposures that reach as deep as 22 mag in some filters. As with previous SMSS catalogues, we have cross-matched with a host of other imaging and spectroscopic datasets to facilitate additional science outcomes. SMSS DR4 is now available to the worldwide astronomical community.
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spellingShingle SkyMapper Southern Survey: Data Release 4
Onken, Christopher A.
Wolf, Christian
Bessell, Michael S.
Chang, Seo-Won
Luvaul, Lance C.
Tonry, John L.
White, Marc C.
Da Costa, Gary S.
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
We present the fourth data release (DR4) of the SkyMapper Southern Survey (SMSS), the last major step in our hemispheric survey with six optical filters: u, v, g, r, i, z. SMSS DR4 covers 26,000 sq.deg from over 400,000 images acquired by the 1.3m SkyMapper telescope between 2014-03 and 2021-09. The 6-band sky coverage extends from the South Celestial Pole to Dec = +16deg, with some images reaching Dec ~ +28deg. In contrast to previous DRs, we include all good-quality images from the facility taken during that time span, not only those explicitly taken for the public Survey. From the image dataset, we produce a catalogue of nearly 13 billion detections made from ~700 million unique astrophysical objects. The typical 10sigma depths for each field range between 18.5 and 20.5 mag, depending on the filter, but certain sky regions include longer exposures that reach as deep as 22 mag in some filters. As with previous SMSS catalogues, we have cross-matched with a host of other imaging and spectroscopic datasets to facilitate additional science outcomes. SMSS DR4 is now available to the worldwide astronomical community.
title SkyMapper Southern Survey: Data Release 4
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02015