The Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey - I. Description of the survey

R. S. Stobie*, D. Kilkenny, D. O'Donoghue, A. Chen, C. Koen, D. H. Morgan, J. Barrow, D. A H Buckley, R. D. Cannon, C. J P Cass, M. R. Cranston, M. Drinkwater, M. Hartley, M. R S Hawkins, S. Hughes, C. M. Humphries, H. T. MacGillivray, P. B. McKenzie, Q. A. Parker, M. ReadK. S. Russell, A. Savage, E. B. Thomson, S. B. Tritton, J. D. Waldron, B. Warner, F. G. Watson

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Abstract

The Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey is a major survey to discover blue stellar objects brighter than B ∼ 18 in the southern sky. It is planned to cover an area of sky of 10 000 deg 2 with |b| > 30° and δ < 0°. The blue stellar objects are selected by automatic techniques from U and B pairs of UK Schmidt Telescope plates scanned with the COSMOS measuring machine. Follow-up photometry and spectroscopy are being obtained with the SAAO telescopes to classify objects brighter than B = 16.5. This paper describes the survey, the techniques used to extract the blue stellar objects, the photometric methods and accuracy, the spectroscopic classification, and the limits and completeness of the survey.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)848-866
Number of pages19
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume287
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - 1997
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Quasars: general
  • Stars: early-type
  • Stars: horizontal branch
  • Subdwarfs
  • Surveys
  • White dwarfs

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