Project Overview of the Beijing–Arizona Sky Survey

By H. Zou, Xu Zhou, Xiaohui Fan, Tianmeng Zhang, Zhi-min Zhou, J. Nie, Xiyan Peng, I. McGreer, Linhua Jiang, A. Dey and 9 more. 2017

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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 range of topics in both Galactic and extragalactic astronomy.

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Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (2025, unknown): “…primary spectroscopic targets using 14,000 deg 2 of broadband optical and mid-infrared photometry from DR9 of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys ( H. Zou et al. 2017; A. Dey et al. 2019; J. Moustakas et al. 2023; A. D. Myers et al. 2023a; hereafter, the Legacy Surveys ) , and, in some cases, using…”
Survey Operations for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (2023, methodology): “…of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (Dey et al. 2019), which included imaging from the Dark Energy Camera on the Blanco telescope (Flaugher et al. 2015), the 90prime imager on the Bok telescope (Williams et al. 2004; Zou et al. 2017), and the Mosaic3 imager on the Mayall telescope (Dey et al. 2016).”
Target Selection and Validation of DESI Emission Line Galaxies (2022, methodology): “For the northern part of the North Galactic Cap (NGC), the imaging comes from two programs: the Beijing– Arizona Sky Survey (BASS; Zou et al. 2017) provides the g and r bands, observed with the 90Prime camera on the Bok 2.3 m telescope; and the Mayall z-band Legacy Survey (MzLS) provides the z…”
Validation of the Scientific Program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (2023, methodology): “Imaging was performed using the g -band and r -band filters in the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS; Zou et al. 2017) using the 90Prime camera at the 2.3-m Bok tele-scope.”
The Early Data Release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (2023, methodology): “DESI primary targets ( MWS, BGS, LRG, ELG, and QSO ) are selected from Data Release 9 of the Legacy Imaging Surveys ( LS / DR9; Zou et al. 2017; Dey et al. 2019; D. J. Schlegel et al. 2023, in preparation ) , while secondary targets could come from LS / DR9 or other sources.”
Target Selection and Validation of DESI Luminous Red Galaxies (2022, methodology): “…is inaccessible from CTIO, is observed by two telescopes at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in two surveys: the Beijing–Arizona Sky Survey (BASS, Zou et al. 2017) observed in the g and r bands using the 90Prime Camera on the 2.3 m Bok Telescope, and the Mayall zband Legacy Survey (MzLS)…”
Target Selection and Validation of DESI Quasars (2022, methodology): “The Beijing–Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) observed ∼5100 deg2 of the north Galactic cap (NGC) in g and r using the 2.3 m Bok telescope (Zou et al. 2017).”
The DESI Bright Galaxy Survey: Final Target Selection, Design, and Validation (2022, methodology): “For more details on the LS imaging data, we refer readers to Zou et al. (2017), Dey et al. (2019), and D. Schlegel et al. (2023, in preparation).”