A Minute-Cadence Deep Bulge Survey: First Data Release of DREAMS
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| author | Yang, Hongjing Zang, Weicheng Valdes, Francisco Qian, Qiyue Tang, Yuchen Li, Zhixing Shang, Yuxin Mao, Shude Yu, Yaosong Damke, Guillermo Zenteno, Alfredo Heathcote, Steve Boutsia, Konstantina Xu, Andong Ma, Hao Zhang, Jiyuan Li, Hongyu Shan, Xikai Mróz, Przemek Zhao, Xiurui Gould, Andrew Yee, Jennifer C. Lee, Chung-Uk Penny, Matthew Terry, Sean Tamburo, Patrick Cunningham, Tim Ye, Quanzhi Peng, Eric W. Street, Rachel Kruszyńska, Katarzyna Bachelet, Etienne Tsapras, Yiannis Hundertmark, Markus |
| author_facet | Yang, Hongjing Zang, Weicheng Valdes, Francisco Qian, Qiyue Tang, Yuchen Li, Zhixing Shang, Yuxin Mao, Shude Yu, Yaosong Damke, Guillermo Zenteno, Alfredo Heathcote, Steve Boutsia, Konstantina Xu, Andong Ma, Hao Zhang, Jiyuan Li, Hongyu Shan, Xikai Mróz, Przemek Zhao, Xiurui Gould, Andrew Yee, Jennifer C. Lee, Chung-Uk Penny, Matthew Terry, Sean Tamburo, Patrick Cunningham, Tim Ye, Quanzhi Peng, Eric W. Street, Rachel Kruszyńska, Katarzyna Bachelet, Etienne Tsapras, Yiannis Hundertmark, Markus |
| contents | The DECam Rogue Earths and Mars Survey (DREAMS), a NOIRLab survey program, has been conducting a three-year survey covering a 5\,deg$^2$ area in the Galactic bulge since 2025 June. Its primary science goal is to detect low-mass free-floating planets through microlensing, while its minute-level cadence also enables the detection and characterization of rapid phenomena on timescales of minutes to hours such as stellar flares and pulsating stars. Here, we present the data reduction and calibration of the DREAMS observations obtained in 2025 and introduce the first DREAMS data release (DR1). DR1 includes 1,856 $z$-band observations and 325 $r$-band observations for 59,372,789 stars. The DREAMS DR1 catalog contains at least twice as many stars as any previous catalog covering the same 5\,deg$^2$ area. We present DREAMS light curves for a known blue large-amplitude pulsator and a known transiting system to demonstrate the survey's capabilities. We also perform a pilot search for short-duration variables over about 0.4% of the DR1 sample, identifying one new short microlensing event, two stellar flares, and 24 new short variables. This suggests that DREAMS DR1 may contain hundreds of stellar flares and thousands of previously unknown short variables. |
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| spellingShingle | A Minute-Cadence Deep Bulge Survey: First Data Release of DREAMS Yang, Hongjing Zang, Weicheng Valdes, Francisco Qian, Qiyue Tang, Yuchen Li, Zhixing Shang, Yuxin Mao, Shude Yu, Yaosong Damke, Guillermo Zenteno, Alfredo Heathcote, Steve Boutsia, Konstantina Xu, Andong Ma, Hao Zhang, Jiyuan Li, Hongyu Shan, Xikai Mróz, Przemek Zhao, Xiurui Gould, Andrew Yee, Jennifer C. Lee, Chung-Uk Penny, Matthew Terry, Sean Tamburo, Patrick Cunningham, Tim Ye, Quanzhi Peng, Eric W. Street, Rachel Kruszyńska, Katarzyna Bachelet, Etienne Tsapras, Yiannis Hundertmark, Markus Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics The DECam Rogue Earths and Mars Survey (DREAMS), a NOIRLab survey program, has been conducting a three-year survey covering a 5\,deg$^2$ area in the Galactic bulge since 2025 June. Its primary science goal is to detect low-mass free-floating planets through microlensing, while its minute-level cadence also enables the detection and characterization of rapid phenomena on timescales of minutes to hours such as stellar flares and pulsating stars. Here, we present the data reduction and calibration of the DREAMS observations obtained in 2025 and introduce the first DREAMS data release (DR1). DR1 includes 1,856 $z$-band observations and 325 $r$-band observations for 59,372,789 stars. The DREAMS DR1 catalog contains at least twice as many stars as any previous catalog covering the same 5\,deg$^2$ area. We present DREAMS light curves for a known blue large-amplitude pulsator and a known transiting system to demonstrate the survey's capabilities. We also perform a pilot search for short-duration variables over about 0.4% of the DR1 sample, identifying one new short microlensing event, two stellar flares, and 24 new short variables. This suggests that DREAMS DR1 may contain hundreds of stellar flares and thousands of previously unknown short variables. |
| title | A Minute-Cadence Deep Bulge Survey: First Data Release of DREAMS |
| topic | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27364 |