2000/01/16 by R.G McMahon, Richard G. McMahon, N.A Walton +10 · 63 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors #Field (mathematics) #Hubble Deep Field #Large Synoptic Survey Telescope #Range (aeronautics) #Schmidt camera #Sky #Survey research #Telescope #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s1387-6473(00)00137-8
published in New Astronomy Reviews 45(1-2), 97-104 (Elsevier BV) · 11 pages, 2 figures, Latex(requires elsart.cls). To appear in New Astronomy Reviews (see http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~wfcsur for further details)
arxiv created 2000/01/16 · openalex publication_date 2001/01/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The 2.5m Isaac Newton Telescope(INT) is currently being used to carry out a major multi-colour, multi-epoch, CCD based wide field survey over an area of 100 square degrees. The survey parameters have been chosen to maximise scientific return over a wide range of scientific areas and to complement other surveys being carried out elsewhere. Unique aspects of the survey is that it concentrates on regions of sky that are easily accessible from telescopes in both Northern and Southern terrestrial hemispheres and that it the first public survey to use filters similar to that being used by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A major aim of the the INT Wide Field Survey program is to bridge the gap between the all-sky photographic 2 and 3 band surveys such as the Palomar and UK Schmidt sky surveys and the ultra-deep keyhole surveys such as the Hubble Deep Field.