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A pilot study on the CSST astrometric capability: Detecting astrometric binaries with Gaia synergy via simulated data
Shangyu Wen, Shilong Liao, Zhaoxiang Qi +8
Context. The China Space-station Survey Telescope (CSST) will provide deep, wide-field epoch astrometry during its 10-year mission. Astrometric binary orbits constrain the masses o…
Shigatse Astronomical Site Testing. I. Cloud-cover Climatology and Selected Local Meteorological Conditions
Baiyu Zhang, Hejun Yang, Xiaojun Dong +15
As the first paper in a Shigatse astronomical site-testing series, we present a multi-source assessment of cloud cover and selected local meteorological conditions at the Shigatse…
Astrometric Calibration of the BeijingArizona Sky Survey
Xiyan Peng, Zhaoxiang Qi, Tianmeng Zhang +13
We present the astrometric calibration of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS). The BASS astrometry was tied to the International Celestial Reference Frame via the \emph{Gaia} Dat…
Simulation of CSSTs astrometric capability
Zhensen Fu, Zhaoxiang Qi, Shilong Liao +5
The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) will enter a low Earth orbit around 2024 and operate for 10 years, with seven of those years devoted to surveying the area of the median-to…
The Robotic Multi-Object Focal Plane System of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
Joseph Harry Silber, Parker Fagrelius, Kevin Fanning +97
A system of 5,020 robotic fiber positioners was installed in 2019 on the Mayall Telescope, at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The robots automatically re-target their optical fiber…
Searching Extra-tidal Features around the Globular Cluster Whiting 1
Jundan Nie, Hao Tian, Jing Li +14
Whiting 1 is a faint and young globular cluster in the halo of the Milky Way, and was suggested to have originated in the Sagittarius spherical dwarf galaxy (Sgr dSph). In this pap…
Revisiting the Full Sets of Orbital Parameters for the XO-3 System: No evidence for Temporal Variation of the Spin-Orbit Angle
Keduse Worku, Songhu Wang, Jennifer Burt +14
We present 12 new transit light curves and 16 new out-of-transit radial velocity measurements for the XO-3 system. By modelling our newly collected measurements together with archi…
Transiting Exoplanet Monitoring Project (TEMP). VI. The Homogeneous Refinement of System Parameters for 39 Transiting Hot Jupiters with 127 New Light Curves
Xian-Yu Wang, Yong-Hao Wang, Songhu Wang +11
We present 127 new transit light curves for 39 hot Jupiter systems, obtained over the span of five years by two ground-based telescopes. A homogeneous analysis of these newly colle…
The Third Data Release of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey
Hu Zou, Xu Zhou, Xiaohui Fan +45
The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) is a wide and deep imaging survey to cover a 5400 deg area in the Northern Galactic Cap with the 2.3m Bok telescope using two filters (…
Observations of A Fast-Expanding and UV-Bright Type Ia Supernova SN 2013gs
Tianmeng Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang, Xulin Zhao +21
In this paper, we present extensive optical and ultraviolet (UV) observations of the type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 2013gs discovered during the Tsinghua-NAOC Transient Survey. The phot…
Transiting Exoplanet Monitoring Project (TEMP). I. Refined System Parameters and Transit Timing Variations of HAT-P-29b
Songhu Wang, Xian-Yu Wang, Yong-Hao Wang +19
We report the photometry of six transits of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-29b obtained from 2013 October to 2015 January. We analyze the new light curves, in combination with the published…
Photometric calibration for the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey and Mayall z-band Legacy Survey
Zhimin Zhou, Xu Zhou, Hu Zou +14
We present the photometric calibration of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) and Mayall z-band Legacy Survey (MzLS), which are two of the three wide-field optical legacy imaging…
Transiting Exoplanet Monitoring Project (TEMP). IV. Refined System Parameters, Transit Timing Variations and Orbital Stability of the Transiting Planetary System HAT-P-25
Xian-Yu Wang, Songhu Wang, Tobias C. Hinse +12
We present eight new light curves of the transiting extra-solar planet HAT-P-25b obtained from 2013 to 2016 with three telescopes at two observatories. We use the new light curves,…
Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys
Arjun Dey, David J. Schlegel, Dustin Lang +157
The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys are a combination of three public projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey, and the Mayall z-band Legacy Surve…
Transiting Exoplanet Monitoring Project (TEMP). III. On the Relocation of the Kepler-9~b Transit
Songhu Wang, Dong-Hong Wu, Brett C. Addison +24
The Kepler-9 system harbors three known transiting planets. The system holds significant interest for several reasons. First, the outer two planets exhibit a period ratio that is c…
The Second Data Release of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey
Hu Zou, Tianmeng Zhang, Zhimin Zhou +28
This paper presents the second data release (DR2) of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS). BASS is an imaging survey of about 5400 deg in and bands using the 2.3 m Bok…
Mapping the Tidal Disruption of the Hercules Dwarf: A Wide-Field DECam Imaging Search for RR Lyrae Stars
Christopher Garling, Beth Willman, David J. Sand +10
We investigate the hypothesized tidal disruption of the Hercules ultra-faint dwarf galaxy (UFD). Previous tidal disruption studies of the Hercules UFD have been hindered by the hig…
Transiting Exoplanet Monitoring Project (TEMP). II. Refined System Parameters and Transit Timing Analysis of HAT-P-33b
Y. -H. Wang, S. Wang, H. -G. Liu +19
We present ten -band photometric observations of eight different transits of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-33b, which has been targeted by our Transiting Exoplanet Monitoring Project (T…
Ages and structural and dynamical parameters of two globular clusters in the M81 group
Jun Ma, Song Wang, Zhenyu Wu +10
GC-1 and GC-2 are two globular clusters (GCs) in the remote halo of M81 and M82 in the M81 group discovered by Jang et al. using the {\it Hubble Space Telescope} ({\it HST}) images…
Project Overview of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey
Hu Zou, Xu Zhou, Xiaohui Fan +16
The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) is a wide-field two-band photometric survey of the Northern Galactic Cap using the 90Prime imager on the 2.3 m Bok telescope at Kitt Peak. It…
The First Data Release of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey
Hu Zou, Tianmeng Zhang, Zhimin Zhou +25
The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) is a new wide-field legacy imaging survey in the northern Galactic cap using the 2.3m Bok telescope. The survey will cover about 5400 deg…
The Galactic extinction and reddening from the South Galactic Cap U-band Sky Survey: u band galaxy number counts and color distribution
Linlin Li, Shiyin Shen, Jinliang Hou +19
We study the integral Galactic extinction and reddening based on the galaxy catalog of the South Galactic Cap U-band Sky Survey (SCUSS), where band galaxy number counts and $u-…
The DESI Experiment Part II: Instrument Design
DESI Collaboration, Amir Aghamousa, Jessica Aguilar +290
DESI (Dark Energy Spectropic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations and the growth of structure through redshift…
The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design
DESI Collaboration, Amir Aghamousa, Jessica Aguilar +290
DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure through…