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卡特琳娜实时瞬态调查(CRTS)

The Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey (CRTS)

S. G. Djorgovski, A. J. Drake, A. A. Mahabal, M. J. Graham, C. Donalek, R. Williams, E. C. Beshore, S. M. Larson, J. Prieto, M. Catelan, E. Christensen, R. H. McNaught

摘要:

卡塔利娜实时瞬变巡天(CRTS)是一项天气学巡天,使用来自亚利桑那州和澳大利亚的3台宽视场望远镜的数据流,覆盖总面积约30,000平方度,每次曝光的极限星等约为20 - 21等,时间基线从10分钟到6年(并在不断增长);现在通常每次指向约200 - 300次曝光,叠加图像的深度超过23 mag. CRTS的基本目标是系统地探索和描述暗淡,多变的天空。迄今为止,该调查已经检测到约3,000个高振幅瞬变,包括约1,000个超新星,数百个CV(其中大多数以前未编入目录),以及数百个blazar/ OVV AGN,高度可变和耀斑星等。所有的瞬态都立即以电子方式发布,没有任何专有期限,所有的数据(图像,光变曲线)将在不久的将来公开,从而使整个天文学界受益。CRTS是一个科学和技术的试验平台,也是未来更大规模的天气巡天的先驱。

英文摘要:

Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey (CRTS) is a synoptic sky survey uses data streams from 3 wide-field telescopes in Arizona and Australia, covering the total area of ~30,000 deg2, down to the limiting magnitudes ~ 20 - 21 mag per exposure, with time baselines from 10 min to 6 years (and growing); there are now typically ~ 200 - 300 exposures per pointing, and coadded images reach deeper than 23 mag. The basic goal of CRTS is a systematic exploration and characterization of the faint, variable sky. The survey has detected ~ 3,000 high-amplitude transients to date, including ~ 1,000 supernovae, hundreds of CVs (the majority of them previously uncatalogued), and hundreds of blazars / OVV AGN, highly variable and flare stars, etc. CRTS has a complete open data philosophy: all transients are published immediately electronically, with no proprietary period at all, and all of the data (images, light curves) will be publicly available in the near future, thus benefiting the entire astronomical community. CRTS is a scientific and technological testbed and precursor for the grander synoptic sky surveys to come.

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