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The SkyMapper Telescope and The Southern Sky Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

S. C. Keller ,
B. P. Schmidt ,
M. S. Bessell ,
P. G. Conroy ,
P. Francis ,
A. Granlund ,
E. Kowald ,
A. P. Oates ,
T. Martin-Jones  and
T. Preston
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S. C. Keller*
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Rd, Weston ACT 2611, Australia
B. P. Schmidt
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Rd, Weston ACT 2611, Australia
M. S. Bessell
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Rd, Weston ACT 2611, Australia
P. G. Conroy
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Rd, Weston ACT 2611, Australia
P. Francis
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Rd, Weston ACT 2611, Australia
A. Granlund
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Rd, Weston ACT 2611, Australia
E. Kowald
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Rd, Weston ACT 2611, Australia
A. P. Oates
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Rd, Weston ACT 2611, Australia
T. Martin-Jones
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Rd, Weston ACT 2611, Australia
T. Preston
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Rd, Weston ACT 2611, Australia
P. Tisserand
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Rd, Weston ACT 2611, Australia
A. Vaccarella
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Rd, Weston ACT 2611, Australia
M. F. Waterson
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Rd, Weston ACT 2611, Australia
*
BCorresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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This paper presents the design and science goals for the SkyMapper telescope. SkyMapper is a 1.3-m telescope featuring a 5.7-square-degree field-of-view Cassegrain imager commissioned for the Australian National University's Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. It is located at Siding Spring Observatory, Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia and will see first light in late 2007.

The imager possesses 16 384 × 16 384 0.5-arcsec pixels. The primary scientific goal of the facility is to perform the Southern Sky Survey, a six-colour and multi-epoch (four-hour, one-day, one-week, one-month and one-year sampling) photometric survey of the southerly 2π sr to g ∼23 mag. The survey will provide photometry to better than 3% global accuracy and astrometry to better than 50 milliarcsec. Data will be supplied to the community as part of the Virtual Observatory effort. The survey will take five years to complete.

Keywords

telescopessurveystechniques: photometry
Type
Research Article
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , 2007 , pp. 1 - 12
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2007

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