The Edinburgh Cape Blue Object Survey .1. Description of the survey

被引：106

作者：

Stobie, RS

Kilkenny, D

ODonoghue, D

Chen, A

Koen, C

Morgan, DH

Barrow, J

Buckley, DAH

Cannon, RD

Cass, CJP

Cranston, MR

Drinkwater, M

Hartley, M

Hawkins, MRS

Hughes, S

Humphries, CM

MacGillivray, HT

McKenzie, PB

Parker, QA

Read, M

Russell, KS

Savage, A

Thomson, EB

Tritton, SB

Waldron, JD

Warner, B

Watson, FG

机构：

[1] UNIV CAPE TOWN,DEPT ASTRON,ZA-7700 RONDEBOSCH,CAPE,SOUTH AFRICA

[2] ROYAL OBSERV,EDINBURGH EH9 3HJ,MIDLOTHIAN,SCOTLAND

[3] ANGLO AUSTRALIAN OBSERV,EPPING,NSW 2121,AUSTRALIA

[4] ROYAL GREENWICH OBSERV,CAMBRIDGE CB3 0EZ,ENGLAND

来源：

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | 1997年 / 287卷 / 04期

关键词：

surveys; stars; early-type; horizontal branch; subdwarfs; white dwarfs; quasars; general;

D O I：

10.1093/mnras/287.4.848

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey is a major survey to discover blue stellar objects brighter than B similar to 18 in the southern sky. It is planned to cover an area of sky of 10 000 deg(2) with \b\ > 30 degrees and delta < 0 degrees. The blue stellar objects are selected by automatic techniques from U and B pairs of UK Schmidt Telescope plates scanned with the COSMOS measuring machine. Follow-up photometry and spectroscopy are being obtained with the SAAO telescopes to classify objects brighter than B = 16.5. This paper describes the survey, the techniques used to extract the blue stellar objects, the photometric methods and accuracy, the spectroscopic classification, and the limits and completeness of the survey.

引用

页码：848 / 866

页数：19

共 34 条

[1] THE UNIVERSE AT FAINT MAGNITUDES .1. MODELS FOR THE GALAXY AND THE PREDICTED STAR COUNTS [J].