The SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey – I. Introduction and description

By Nigel C. Hambly, H. Macgillivray, M. Read, S. Tritton, E. Thomson, D. Kelly, D. Morgan, Robert Smith, S. Driver, J. Williamson and 8 more. 2001

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In this, the first in a series of three papers concerning the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey (SSS), we give an introduction and user guide to the survey programme. We briefly describe other wide-field surveys and compare them with our own. We give examples of the data, and make a comparison of the accuracies of the various image parameters available with those from the other surveys providing similar data; we show that the SSS data base and interface offer advantages over these surveys. Some science applications of the data are also described and some limitations discussed. The series of three papers constitutes a comprehensive description and user guide for the SSS.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation

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The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: survey design and first data release (2009, methodology): “Before observing, we make a final check of all the target objects by visually inspecting them on SuperCOSMOS (Hambly et al. 2001) sky survey images to ensure that none is artefacts associated with extremely bright (r < 12) Galactic stars.”
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: 16 ⩽ BMGC < 24 galaxy counts and the calibration of the local galaxy luminosity function (2002, methodology): “Vaucouleurs et al. 1991) and the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey (Hambly et al. 2001).”
Binary planetary nebulae nuclei towards the Galactic bulge - I. Sample discovery, period distribution, and binary fraction (2009, methodology): “For 10 of the 12 fields we carefully inspected full resolution SHS and SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey (SSS, Hambly et al. 2001) data using the techniques described by Miszalski et al. (2008a) to select fibre positions for known, MASH and MASH-II PNe.”
The SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey – II. Image detection, parametrization, classification and photometry (2001, methodology): “1 I N T R O D U C T I O N In Paper I of this series (Hambly et al. 2001a) we describe the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey programme (hereafter SSS).”
Two Suns in The Sky: Stellar Multiplicity in Exoplanet Systems (2006, methodology): “We obtained optical plate photometry in BJ , R59F and IIV N bands (hereafter BRI) from the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey (SSS) scans of Schmidt survey plates (Hambly et al. 2001a).”
The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) (2006, background): “…goal of UKIDSS is to produce IR sky atlases and catalogs as a fundamental resource of lasting significance analogous to the various Schmidt photographic sky surveys of the 1970s and onwards (Hambly et al. 2001 and references therein), and to the SDSS survey of modern times (York et al. 2000).”
The stellar halo of the Galaxy (2008, methodology): “Xu et al. (2007) carried out this exercise and compared star counts towards the North Galactic Pole (NGP) from SDSS and towards the South Galactic Pole (SGP) using SuperCOSMOS4 photographic data (Hambly et al. 2001).”
The M-dwarfs in Multiples (MinMs) survey – I. Stellar multiplicity among low-mass stars within 15 pc (2015, methodology): “In order to extend the AO imaging survey with a wider search for companions at separations from ∼100 − 10, 000 au, we used the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey Science Archive (Hambly et al. 2001) to obtain scans of plates from the UK Schmidt (UKST), ESO Schmidt, and Palomar Oschin Schmidt (POSS) sky surveys ”
The Australia Telescope 20 GHz Survey: the source catalogue (2009, methodology): “Optical counterparts of the full AT20G sample were found by cross-matching the radio positions with optical positionsin the SuperCOSMOS database (Hambly et al. 2001).”
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Instrument specification and target selection (2014, methodology): “…resulting pool of unoccupied grid cells the one which is most isolated (furthest from the nearest occupied cell) is tested for suitability as a sky position, by means of a TAP ADQL (Ortiz et al. 2011) 10 arcsec radial proximity search of the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey catalogue (Hambly et al. 2001).”
Radio sources in the 6dFGS: local luminosity functions at 1.4 GHz for star-forming galaxies and radio-loud AGN (2006, methodology): “We visually inspected overlays of NVSS radio contours on to bJ images from the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey (Hambly et al. 2001) for each candidate identification and classified them as follows: 10 100 1000 S1.”
TWO MICRON ALL SKY SURVEY PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFT CATALOG: A COMPREHENSIVE THREE-DIMENSIONAL CENSUS OF THE WHOLE SKY (2013, methodology): “Working in the context of analyzing the ISW signal, they derived photometric redshift estimates by matching the 2MASS data with optical catalogs generated from SuperCOSMOS scans of major photographic sky surveys (Hambly et al. 2001c).”
The WFCAM Science Archive (2006, methodology): “Scalability of the design to terabyte data volumes was prototyped using our own existing legacy Schmidt survey dataset, the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey (Hambly et al. 2001a and references therein).”
Galaxy Alignments: Observations and Impact on Cosmology (2015, methodology): “This paper used 2 × 106 galaxies from the SuperCOSMOS sky survey (Hambly et al. 2001) with a median redshift of z ∼ 0.1.”
The Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph (2011, methodology): “SuperCOSMOS images (Hambly et al. 2001) were examined at the RA and Dec. of each remaining sky grid position for each field and if no source was found within a 24 arcsec window then the sky position was accepted.”
The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey – XII. The spectroscopic catalogue and luminosity function (2004, methodology): “On the WWW site, we also provide 1-arcmin square SuperCOSMOS-scanned images (Hambly et al. 2001) of the J photographic plates around each object in the 2QZ and 6QZ catalogue.”
THE RADIAL VELOCITY EXPERIMENT (RAVE): SECOND DATA RELEASE (2008, methodology): “So this data release uses the same input catalog as Paper I: the bright stars were selected using I magnitudes estimated from the Tycho-2 VT and BT magnitudes (Høg et al. 2000), and the faint ones were chosen by their I magnitudes in the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey (Hambly et al. 2001), hereafter SSS. Tr”
Subtle Signatures of Multiplicity in Late-type Dwarf Spectra: The Unresolved M8.5 + T5 Binary 2MASS J03202839–0446358 (2008, methodology): “Deacon, Hambly & Cooke (2005), using I-band plate data from the SuperCosmos Sky Survey (SSS; Hambly et al. 2001a,b,c), report a relatively high proper motion of 0.”
Measurement of intrinsic alignments in galaxy ellipticities (2000, methodology): “Further details concerning image parameterisation, classification and photometry are given in Hambly et al. (2001b).”