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The Pan-STARRS1 Database and Data Products
Price, P. A.; Rest, A.; Saglia, R. P. +36 more
This paper describes the organization of the database and the catalog data products from the Pan-STARRS1 3π Steradian Survey. The catalog data products are available in the form of an SQL-based relational database from MAST, the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes at STScI. The database is described in detail, including the construction of the d…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Sixteenth Data Release
Brandt, W. N.; Pâris, Isabelle; Petitjean, Patrick +34 more
We present the final Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) quasar catalog from Data Release 16 of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). This catalog comprises the largest selection of spectroscopically confirmed quasars to date. The full catalog includes two subcatalogs (the current versions are DR16Q_v4 and DR16Q_Superset_…
Pan-STARRS Photometric and Astrometric Calibration
Price, P. A.; Chambers, K. C.; Stubbs, C. W. +20 more
We present the details of the photometric and astrometric calibration of the Pan-STARRS1 3π Survey. The photometric goals were to reduce the systematic effects introduced by the camera and detectors, and to place all of the observations onto a photometric system with consistent zero-points over the entire area surveyed, the ≈30,000 deg2…
The Zwicky Transient Facility Catalog of Periodic Variable Stars
Tian, Hao; Yang, Ming; Wang, Shu +3 more
The number of known periodic variables has grown rapidly in recent years. Thanks to its large field of view and faint limiting magnitude, the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) offers a unique opportunity to detect variable stars in the northern sky. Here, we exploit ZTF Data Release 2 (DR2) to search for and classify variables down to r ∼ 20.6 mag. …
The SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey
Sharon, K.; Gladders, M. D.; Ade, P. A. R. +135 more
We describe the observations and resultant galaxy cluster catalog from the 2770 deg2 SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey (SPT-ECS). Clusters are identified via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect and confirmed with a combination of archival and targeted follow-up data, making particular use of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). With inco…
The ALPINE-ALMA [C II] Survey: Multiwavelength Ancillary Data and Basic Physical Measurements
Cimatti, A.; Pozzi, F.; Rodighiero, G. +37 more
We present the ancillary data and basic physical measurements for the galaxies in the ALMA Large Program to Investigate C+ at Early Times (ALPINE) survey - the first large multiwavelength survey that aims at characterizing the gas and dust properties of 118 main-sequence galaxies at redshifts 4.4 < z < 5.9 via the measurement of […
Synthetic Gaia Surveys from the FIRE Cosmological Simulations of Milky Way-mass Galaxies
Faucher-Giguère, Claude-André; Sharma, Sanjib; Hopkins, Philip F. +6 more
With Gaia Data Release 2, the astronomical community is entering a new era of multidimensional surveys of the Milky Way. This new phase-space view of our Galaxy demands new tools for comparing observations to simulations of Milky Way-mass galaxies in a cosmological context, to test the physics of both dark matter and galaxy formation. We present a…
The Multi-INstrument Burst ARchive (MINBAR)
Watts, Anna L.; Galloway, Duncan K.; Kuulkers, Erik +7 more
We present the largest sample of type I (thermonuclear) X-ray bursts yet assembled, comprising 7083 bursts from 85 bursting sources. The sample is drawn from observations with Xenon-filled proportional counters on the long-duration satellites RXTE, BeppoSAX, and International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory between 1996 February 8 and 2012 May 3…
The CatWISE Preliminary Catalog: Motions from WISE and NEOWISE Data
Teplitz, Harry I.; Schlegel, David J.; Mobasher, Bahram +19 more
CatWISE is a program to catalog sources selected from combined WISE and NEOWISE all-sky survey data at 3.4 and 4.6 &mgrm (W1 and W2). The CatWISE Preliminary Catalog consists of 900,849,014 sources measured in data collected from 2010 to 2016. This data set represents four times as many exposures and spans over 10 times as large a time baselin…
Scaling K2. I. Revised Parameters for 222,088 K2 Stars and a K2 Planet Radius Valley at 1.9 R⊕
Schlieder, Joshua E.; Ciardi, David R.; Dressing, Courtney D. +3 more
Previous measurements of stellar properties for K2 stars in the Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog largely relied on photometry and proper motion measurements, with some added information from available spectra and parallaxes. Combining Gaia DR2 distances with spectroscopic measurements of effective temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities fro…