TY - JOUR
T1 - Project overview of the Beijing-Arizona sky survey
AU - Zou, Hu
AU - Zhou, X. U.
AU - Fan, Xiaohui
AU - Zhang, Tianmeng
AU - Zhou, Zhimin
AU - Nie, Jundan
AU - Peng, Xiyan
AU - McGreer, Ian
AU - Jiang, Linhua
AU - Dey, Arjun
AU - Fan, Dongwei
AU - He, Boliang
AU - Jiang, Zhaoji
AU - Lang, Dustin
AU - Lesser, Michael
AU - Ma, Jun
AU - Mao, Shude
AU - Schlegel, David
AU - Wang, Jiali
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - 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 deg2 in the g and r bands. The 5σ 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 astronomy.
AB - 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 deg2 in the g and r bands. The 5σ 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 astronomy.
KW - Methods: observational - Surveys Online material: color figures
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020063336&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1088/1538-3873/aa65ba
DO - 10.1088/1538-3873/aa65ba
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85020063336
SN - 0004-6280
VL - 129
JO - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
JF - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
IS - 976
M1 - 064101
ER -