The VST Photometric Hα Survey of the Southern Galactic Plane and Bulge (VPHAS
By J. Drew, E. González-Solares, R. Greimel, M. Irwin, A. Yoldas, J. Lewis, G. Barentsen, J. Eislöffel, H. Farnhill, W. Martin and 25 more. 2014
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The VST Photometric HSurvey of the Southern Galactic Plane and Bulge (VPHAS+) is surveying the southern Milky Way in u,g,r,i and Hat �1 arcsec angular resolution. Its footprint spans the Galactic latitude range 5 o < b < +5 o at all longitudes south of the celestial equator. Extensions around the Galactic Centre to Galactic latitudes ±10 ◦ bring in much of the Galactic Bulge. This ESO public sur- vey, begun on 28th December 2011, reaches down to �20th magnitude (10�) and will provide single-epoch digital optical photometry for �300 million stars. The observing strategy and data pipelining is described, and an appraisal of the segmented narrow- band Hfilter in use is presented. Using model atmospheres and library spectra, we compute main-sequence (u g), (g r), (r i) and (r H�) stellar colours in the Vega system. We report on a preliminary validation of the photometry using test data obtained from two pointings overlapping the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. An example of the (u g,g r) and (r H�,r i) diagrams for a full VPHAS+ survey field is given. Attention is drawn to the opportunities for studies of compact nebulae and nebular morphologies that arise from the image quality being achieved. The value of the u band as the means to identify planetary-nebula central stars is demonstrated by the discovery of the central star of NGC 2899 in survey data. Thanks to its excellent imaging performance, the VST/OmegaCam combination used by this survey is a per- fect vehicle for automated searches for reddened early-type stars, and will allow the discovery and analysis of compact binaries, white dwarfs and transient sources.
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- The first and second data releases of the Kilo-Degree Survey (2015, methodology): “Article published by EDP Sciences A62, page 1 of 26 VST Photometric H-α Survey of the Southern Galactic Plane (VPHAS+, Drew et al. 2014), VST ATLAS (Shanks et al. 2013), which covers 5000 square degrees in the Southern Galactic Cap to similar depth as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS, Ahn et al.…”
- The second data release of the INT Photometric Hα Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (IPHAS DR2) (2014, methodology): “The data-taking strategy developed for IPHAS has since been reapplied to carry out a companion INT/WFC Galactic Plane survey called UVEX in U, g, r, He I (Groot et al. 2009), a survey of the Kepler field in U, g, r, i, Hα (Greiss et al. 2012), and a survey of the southern Galactic plane and bulge in”
- Magnetic White Dwarfs (2015, background): “Forthcoming surveys such as SDSS-IV and VPHAS+ (Drew et al. 2014) in the optical and in the X-rays, such as the one expected to be conducted by eROSITA (e.g., Schwope 2012) will allow the discovery of new systems providing new exciting challenges.”
- Gravitational lensing analysis of the Kilo-Degree Survey (2015, background): “The VPHAS+ survey (Drew et al. 2014) targets the southern Galactic plane with short exposures in broad-bands and Hα, and the ATLAS project (Shanks et al. 2015) covers some 5000 square degrees of extragalactic sky in the Southern Galactic Cap to similar depth as the (mostly northern) Sloan Digital…”
- AGaiaData Release 2 catalogue of white dwarfs and a comparison with SDSS (2018, background): “A potentially more complete selection of white dwarfs in the Galactic plane could be achieved combining Gaia observations with dedicated photometric surveys (e.g., IPHAS (Drew et al. 2005) or VPHAS+ (Drew et al. 2014)).”