An All-Sky Portable (ASP) Optical Catalogue

Abstract

This optical catalogue combines the all-sky USNO-B1.0/A1.0 and most-sky APM catalogues, plus overlays of SDSS optical data, into a single all-sky map presented in a sparse binary format which is easily downloaded at 9Gb zipped. Total count is 1,163,237,190 sources and each has J2000 astrometry, red & blue magnitudes with PSFs and variability indicator, and flags for proper motion, epoch, and source survey & catalogue for each of the photometry and astrometry. The catalogue is available on the PASA datastore at http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/50/5807fbc12595f .

arXiv commentAccepted by Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA). 13 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables. Catalog available at http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/50/5807fbc12595f

References in corpus (6)

• The USNO-B Catalog
• The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III
• The SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey. Paper I: Introduction and Description
• Think Outside the Color Box: Probabilistic Target Selection and the SDSS-XDQSO Quasar Targeting Catalog
• Optical Counterparts for 70,000 Radio Sources: APM Identifications for the FIRST Radio Survey
• The Million Optical - Radio/X-ray Associations (MORX) Catalogue

Cited by in corpus (1)

• MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) -- I: Survey design and the environment of a near pristine gas cloud at z~3.5