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. Read; K. S. Russell; A. Savage; E. B. Thomson; S. B. Tritton; J. D. Waldron; B. Warner; F. G. Watson

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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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
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

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Stobie, R. S., Kilkenny, D., O'Donoghue, D., Chen, A., Koen, C., Morgan, D. H., Barrow, J., Buckley, D. A. H., Cannon, R. D., Cass, C. J. P., Cranston, M. R., Drinkwater, M., Hartley, M., Hawkins, M. R. S., Hughes, S., Humphries, C. M., MacGillivray, H. T., McKenzie, P. B., Parker, Q. A., ... Watson, F. G. (1997). The Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey - I. Description of the survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 287(4), 848-866.

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