The SkyMapper Southern Sky Survey

摘要

SkyMapper is an automated 1.3-m telescope with an 5.7-squaredegree field of view being built at Siding Spring Observatory. It will have16K x 16K 0.5-arcsec pixels and conduct a multi-color (u, vs, g ,r, i, z), multi-epoch (4hr, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1 yr sampling) survey of the southerly 27rsteradian to below 22 magnitude. It will provide star and galaxy photometryto better than 3% global accuracy and astrometry to better than 50 mas. Datawill be supplied without proprietary period as part of Virtual Observatory work.The survey will take 5 years to complete.