scholarly journals Community Challenges in the Era of Petabyte-Scale Sky Surveys

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. P. Kelley ◽  
Henry H. Hsieh ◽  
Colin Orion Chandler ◽  
Siegfried Eggl ◽  
Timothy R. Holt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sky Surveys

Seti Figure of Merit

1997 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 711-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Dreher ◽  
D. Kent Cullers
Keyword(s):  
Figure Of Merit ◽  
Qualitative Difference ◽  
Current Generation ◽  
Detection Range ◽  
Sky Surveys ◽  
Independent Observations ◽  
Good For

AbstractWe develop a figure of merit for SETI observations which is anexplicitfunction of the EIRP of the transmitters, which allows us to treat sky surveys and targeted searches on the same footing. For each EIRP, we calculate the product of terms measuring the number of stars within detection range, the range of frequencies searched, and the number of independent observations for each star. For a given set of SETI observations, the result is a graph of merit versus transmitter EIRP. We apply this technique to several completed and ongoing SETI programs. The results provide a quantitative confirmation of the expected qualitative difference between sky surveys and targeted searches: the Project Phoenix targeted search is good for finding transmitters in the 109to 1014W range, while the sky surveys do their best at higher powers. Current generation optical SETI is not yet competitive with microwave SETI.

scholarly journals FINDING, CHARACTERIZING, AND CLASSIFYING VARIABLE SOURCES IN MULTI-EPOCH SKY SURVEYS: QSOs AND RR LYRAE IN PS1 3πDATA

2016 ◽  
Vol 817 (1) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Hernitschek ◽  
Edward F. Schlafly ◽  
Branimir Sesar ◽  
Hans-Walter Rix ◽  
David W. Hogg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sky Surveys ◽  
Rr Lyrae

scholarly journals An overview of the Planck mission

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (S274) ◽  
pp. 268-273
Author(s):  
N. Mandolesi ◽  
C. Burigana ◽  
A. Gruppuso ◽  
P. Procopio ◽  
S. Ricciardi
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Analysis Pipeline ◽  
Sky Surveys ◽  
Flight Data ◽  
Compact Source ◽  
Effective Aperture ◽  
Successful Launch ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
Data Analysis Pipeline

AbstractThis paper provides an overview of the ESA Planck mission and its scientific promises. Planck is equipped with a 1.5–m effective aperture telescope with two actively-cooled instruments observing the sky in nine frequency channels from 30 GHz to 857 GHz: the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) operating at 20 K with pseudo-correlation radiometers, and the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) with bolometers operating at 100 mK. After the successful launch in May 2009, Planck has already mapped the sky twice (at the time of writing this review) with the expected behavior and it is planned to complete at least two further all-sky surveys. The first scientific results, consisting of an Early Release Compact Source Catalog (ERCSC) and in about twenty papers on instrument performance in flight, data analysis pipeline, and main astrophysical results, will be released on January 2011. The first publications of the main cosmological implications are expected in 2012.

scholarly journals Exploring the Time Domain with Synoptic Sky Surveys

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (S285) ◽  
pp. 141-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. G. Djorgovski ◽  
A. A. Mahabal ◽  
A. J. Drake ◽  
M. J. Graham ◽  
C. Donalek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Domain ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Sky Surveys ◽  
The Past ◽  
Systematic Exploration ◽  
The Time Domain ◽  
New Research

AbstractSynoptic sky surveys are becoming the largest data generators in astronomy, and they are opening a new research frontier that touches practically every field of astronomy. Opening the time domain to a systematic exploration will strengthen our understanding of a number of interesting known phenomena, and may lead to the discoveries of as yet unknown ones. We describe some lessons learned over the past decade, and offer some ideas that may guide strategic considerations in the planning and execution of future synoptic sky surveys.

scholarly journals Measuring and calibrating galactic synchrotron emission

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (S259) ◽  
pp. 603-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Reich ◽  
Patricia Reich
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Angular Resolution ◽  
Galactic Plane ◽  
Synchrotron Emission ◽  
Diffuse Emission ◽  
Sky Surveys ◽  
Zero Level ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Scale Properties ◽  
Relative Measurements

AbstractOur position inside the Galaxy requires all-sky surveys to reveal its large-scale properties. The zero-level calibration of all-sky surveys differs from standard ‘relative’ measurements, where a source is measured in respect to its surroundings. All-sky surveys aim to include emission structures of all angular scales exceeding their angular resolution including isotropic emission components. Synchrotron radiation is the dominating emission process in the Galaxy up to frequencies of a few GHz, where numerous ground based surveys of the total intensity up to 1.4 GHz exist. Its polarization properties were just recently mapped for the entire sky at 1.4 GHz. All-sky total intensity and linear polarization maps from WMAP for frequencies of 23 GHz and higher became available and complement existing sky maps. Galactic plane surveys have higher angular resolution using large single-dish or synthesis telescopes. Polarized diffuse emission shows structures with no relation to total intensity emission resulting from Faraday rotation effects in the interstellar medium. The interpretation of these polarization structures critically depends on a correct setting of the absolute zero-level in Stokes U and Q.

Gspc-II: A Catalog of Photometric Calibrators for the Second Generation Guide Star Catalog

1998 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 379-380
Author(s):  
M. Postman ◽  
B. Bucciarelli ◽  
C. Sturch ◽  
T. Borgman ◽  
R. Casalegno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Sky Surveys ◽  
Star Catalog ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Guide Star

The Guide Star photometric Catalog (GSPC-I; Lasker et al. 1988) is an all-sky set of photoelectrically determined BV sequences created to provide photometric calibrators for the Guide Star Catalog (Paper-I: Lasker et al. 1990, Paper-II: Russell et al. 1990, Paper-III: Jenkner et al. 1990). Although the GSPC-I has been the basis of preliminary photometric calibrations for the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS; Doggett et al. 1995), its relatively bright cutoff at about 15th magnitude limits its capability to support calibration of sky surveys, e.g., the new GSC-II (McLean et al. 1996, this volume, p. 431).

scholarly journals A Comprehensive Study of 94 Open Clusters Based on the Data from IPHAS, GAIA DR2, and Other Sky Surveys

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. N. Yalyalieva ◽  
A. A. Chemel ◽  
E. V. Glushkova ◽  
A. K. Dambis ◽  
A. D. Klinichev
Keyword(s):  
Open Clusters ◽  
Sky Surveys ◽  
Gaia Dr2 ◽  
Comprehensive Study
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