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The Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R. S. Stobie ,
D. Kilkenny ,
D. O’Donoghue  and
A. Chen
R. S. Stobie
Affiliation:
South African Astronomical Observatory, PO Box 9, Observatory 7935, Cape, South Africa
D. Kilkenny
Affiliation:
South African Astronomical Observatory, PO Box 9, Observatory 7935, Cape, South Africa
D. O’Donoghue
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa
A. Chen
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa

Abstract

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The Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey is a major survey to discover blue stellar objects brighter than B ∼ 18 in the southern sky. It covers an area of sky of 10,000 square degrees with |b| > 30° and δ < 0°. 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 accuracy, and the completeness of the survey.

Type
IX. Galactic Structure and Stellar Surveys
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 148: The Future Utilisation of Schmidt Telescopes , 1995 , pp. 280 - 291
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1995

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