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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 848-866 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Volume | 287 |
Issue number | 4 |
Publication status | Published - 1997 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Quasars: general
- Stars: early-type
- Stars: horizontal branch
- Subdwarfs
- Surveys
- White dwarfs