Astrophysical: Surveys

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    Probing the Local Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function with Gaia
    The Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function (PNLF) remains an important extragalactic distance indicator despite a still limited understanding of its most...
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    Probing the Upper Scorpius mass function in the planetary-mass regime
    We present the results of a deep ZYJ near-infrared survey of 13.5 deg2 in the Upper Scorpius (USco) OB association. We photometrically selected ˜100 cluster...
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    Probing the z > 6 Universe with the First Hubble Frontier Fields Cluster A2744
    The Hubble Frontier Fields program combines the capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) with the gravitational lensing of massive galaxy clusters to...
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    Processing GOTO data with the Rubin Observatory LSST Science Pipelines I: Production of coadded frames
    The past few decades have seen the burgeoning of wide-field, high-cadence surveys, the most formidable of which will be the Legacy Survey of Space and Time...
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    Processing GOTO survey data with the Rubin Observatory LSST Science Pipelines II: Forced Photometry and lightcurves
    We have adapted the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Science Pipelines to process data from the Gravitational-wave Optical...
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    Properties of FIRBACK-ELAIS 175-μm sources in the ELAIS N2 region
    We report on a search for the optical counterparts of 175-μm selected sources from the Far-Infrared Background (FIRBACK) survey in the European Large Area ISO...
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    QUEST1 200k light curve catalog (Rengstorf+, 2004)
    Between 1999 February and 2000 April, the QUEST1 variability survey collected 69 drift scans of the same region of high Galactic latitude sky. The scans cover a...
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    QUEST1 variability survey (QVS). III. (Rengstorf+, 2009)
    QUEST1 constructed a 16-chip CCD camera to be used on the 1m Schmidt telescope at the Llano del Hato National Astronomical Observatory in Venezuela. Normally...
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    QUEST1 Variability Survey. II. Variability Determination Criteria and 200k Light Curve Catalog
    The QUEST (QUasar Equatorial Survey Team) Phase 1 camera has collected multibandpass photometry on a large strip of high Galactic latitude sky over a period of...