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The Data Release of Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS)
The BASS is an new imaging survey with the collaboration between NAOC and Steward Observatory. It uses the 2.3m Bok telescope to survey an area of about 5400 deg² in the north Galactic cap. The photometric system includes the SDSS g and DES r bands. The expected depths for 5σ point sources and Galactic extinction correction are 24.0 mag for g band and 23.4 mag for r band, respectively. The observation is expected to be completed in 2018. We will release the data almost every year. The BASS is also one of three optical imaging surveys that are designated for target selections of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). The other two surveys are the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS) and the MOSAIC z-band Legacy Survey (MzLS). The BASS and MzLS cover the same area of about 5500 deg² in the north Galactic cap, while the DECaLS cover an area of about 9000 deg² along the equator in both south and north. The DESI team will also reduce the data from all three surveys. The latest data release (DR4) include the BASS and MzLS data taken before 2016 July. The BASS team reduce the BASS and MzLS data by independent pipelines. The latest data release is DR2.
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Other data releases for DESI legacy surveys, which also include the BASS data.
Survey summary
| Telescope | BASS | MzLS |
|---|---|---|
| Telescope | 2.3m Bok telescope | 4m Mayall telescope |
| Corrected focal ratio | f/2.98 | f/3 |
| Absolute pointing | <3″ RMS | N/A |
| Site | Kitt Peak | Kitt Peak |
| Elevation | 2071 m | 2071m |
| Camera | BASS | MzLS |
| CCD number | 4 | 4 |
| CCD size | 4096×4032 | 4096×4096 |
| Pixel size | 0.454″ (15 μm) | 0.26″ (15 μm) |
| FoV | 1°.08×1°.03 | 36'x36' |
| Full well | 90,000 e (65,535 DN) | N/A |
| Gain | 1.5 e/ADU | 1.8 e/ADU |
| Readout noise | 8.4 e | 9 e |
| Readout time | 35 s | 30 s |
| Filter | BASS | MzLS |
| Name | SDSS g, DECam r | DECam z |
| Central | 4776, 6412 Å | 9203 Å |
| FWHM | 1135, 1410 Å | 1410 Å |
| Survey parameters | BASS | MzLS |
| Area | 5400 deg² (δ > 30°) | 5100 deg² (δ > 32°) |
| Desired full depth (5σ) | g = 24.0, r = 23.4 | z=23.0 |
| Desired single depth (5σ) | g = 23.4, r = 22.8 | z=22.4 |
| Observation period | 2015-2018 | 2016-2017 |
| Median seeing | g=1.6″, r=1.4″ | z=1.0″ |
| Median sky brightness | g=22.1, r=21.3 | z=19.0 |
| Median zeropoint | g=25.9, r=25.8 | z=26.5 |
Acknowledgement
Whatever level of the BASS data you used, we hope you add the following acknowledgement in your paper/project.
The BASS is a collaborative program between the National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Science and Steward Observatory of the University of Arizona. It is a key project of the Telescope Access Program (TAP), which has been funded by the National Astronomical Observatories of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (the Strategic Priority Research Program “The Emergence of Cosmological Structures” Grant No. XDB09000000), and the Special Fund for Astronomy from the Ministry of Finance. The BASS is also supported by the External Cooperation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 114A11KYSB20160057) and Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 11433005). Data resources are supported by Chinese Astronomical Data Center (CAsDC).
The follow papers should be cited as appropriate if you use the BASS data:
- the BASS project overview | ADS | astroph (1702.03653)
- The first data release (DR1) | ADS | astroph (1702.03854)
- The second data release (DR2) | ADS | astroph (1712.09165)
- The third data release (DR3) | ADS | astroph (1908.07099)
Publications
| # | Bibcode | Score | Date | List of Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Authors | Title | Access Control Help | |||
| 1 | 2019MNRAS.484..431C | 1.000 | 03/2019 | A E F X D R O U | |
| Chen, Hsiao-Wen; Johnson, Sean D.; Straka, Lorrie A.; Zahedy, Fakhri S.; Schaye, Joop; Muzahid, Sowgat; Bouché, Nicolas; Cantalupo, Sebastiano; Marino, Raffaella Anna; Wendt, Martin | Characterizing circumgalactic gas around massive ellipticals at z ≈ 0.4 - III. The galactic environment of a chemically pristine Lyman limit absorber | ||||
| 2 | 2019MNRAS.484...93D | 1.000 | 03/2019 | A E F X R C U | |
| Domínguez Sánchez, H.; Huertas-Company, M.; Bernardi, M.; Kaviraj, S.; Fischer, J. L.; Abbott, T. M. C.; Abdalla, F. B.; Annis, J.; Avila, S.; Brooks, D.; and 49 coauthors | Transfer learning for galaxy morphology from one survey to another | ||||
| 3 | 2019MNRAS.tmp..457K | 1.000 | 02/2019 | A E X | |
| Koposov, S. E.; Belokurov, V.; Li, T. S.; Mateu, C.; Erkal, D.; Grillmair, C. J.; Hendel, D.; Price-Whelan, A. M.; Laporte, C. F. P.; Hawkins, K.; and 6 coauthors | Piercing the Milky Way: an all-sky view of the Orphan Stream | ||||
| 4 | 2019ApJS..240...33G | 1.000 | 02/2019 | A E F X R C U | |
| Gonzalez, Anthony H.; Gettings, Daniel P.; Brodwin, Mark; Eisenhardt, Peter R. M.; Stanford, S. A.; Wylezalek, Dominika; Decker, Bandon; Marrone, Daniel P.; Moravec, Emily; O’Donnell, Christine; and 16 coauthors | The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey. I. Survey Overview and a Catalog of >2000 Galaxy Clusters at z ≃ 1 | ||||
| 5 | 2019ApJS..240...30S | 1.000 | 02/2019 | A E F X R C U | |
| Schlafly, Edward F.; Meisner, Aaron M.; Green, Gregory M. | The unWISE Catalog: Two Billion Infrared Sources from Five Years of WISE Imaging | ||||
| 6 | 2019ApJ...872L...2M | 1.000 | 02/2019 | A E F X R U | |
| Matsuoka, Yoshiki; Onoue, Masafusa; Kashikawa, Nobunari; Strauss, Michael A.; Iwasawa, Kazushi; Lee, Chien-Hsiu; Imanishi, Masatoshi; Nagao, Tohru; Akiyama, Masayuki; Asami, Naoko; and 38 coauthors | Discovery of the First Low-luminosity Quasar at z > 7 | ||||
| 7 | 2019arXiv190110866C | 1.000 | 01/2019 | A X R U | |
| Comparat, J.; Merloni, A.; Salvato, M.; Nandra, K.; Boller, T.; Georgakakis, A.; Finoguenov, A.; Dwelly, T.; Buchner, J.; Del Moro, A.; and 7 coauthors | Active Galactic Nuclei and their Large-scale Structure: an eROSITA mock catalogue | ||||
| 8 | 2019arXiv190105508K | 1.000 | 01/2019 | A X R U | |
| Kokubo, Mitsuru; Mitsuda, Kazuma; Morokuma, Tomoki; Tominaga, Nozomu; Tanaka, Masaomi; Moriya, Takashi J.; Yoachim, Peter; Ivezić, Željko; Sako, Shigeyuki; Doi, Mamoru | A Long-Duration Luminous Type IIn Supernova KISS15s: Strong Recombination Lines from the Inhomogeneous Ejecta-CSM Interaction Region and Hot Dust Emission from Newly Formed Dust | ||||
| 9 | 2019ApJS..240....1Z | 1.000 | 01/2019 | A E F X R C U | |
| Zaritsky, Dennis; Donnerstein, Richard; Dey, Arjun; Kadowaki, Jennifer; Zhang, Huanian; Karunakaran, Ananthan; Martínez-Delgado, David; Rahman, Mubdi; Spekkens, Kristine | Systematically Measuring Ultra-diffuse Galaxies (SMUDGes). I. Survey Description and First Results in the Coma Galaxy Cluster and Environs | ||||
| 10 | 2018ApJ...869L...9W | 1.000 | 12/2018 | A E F X D R C S U | |
| Wang, Feige; Yang, Jinyi; Fan, Xiaohui; Yue, Minghao; Wu, Xue-Bing; Schindler, Jan-Torge; Bian, Fuyan; Li, Jiang-Tao; Farina, Emanuele P.; Bañados, Eduardo; and 11 coauthors | The Discovery of a Luminous Broad Absorption Line Quasar at a Redshift of 7.02 | ||||
| 11 | 2018ApJ...869...15G | 1.000 | 12/2018 | A E F X R C U | |
| Gao, YuLong; Bao, Min; Yuan, QiRong; Kong, Xu; Zou, Hu; Zhou, Xu; Gu, Yizhou; Lin, Zesen; Liang, Zhixiong; Huang, Chi | Mass–Metallicity Relation and Fundamental Metallicity Relation of Metal-poor Star-forming Galaxies at 0.6 < Z < 0.9 from the eBOSS Survey | ||||
| 12 | 2018MNRAS.481L.136S | 1.000 | 11/2018 | A E F X R S U | |
| Shu, Yiping; Marques-Chaves, Rui; Evans, N. Wyn; Pérez-Fournon, Ismael | SDSS J0909+4449: A large-separation strongly lensed quasar at z ˜ 2.8 with three images | ||||
| 13 | 2018arXiv181111915Y | 1.000 | 11/2018 | A X R C U | |
| Yang, Jinyi; Wang, Feige; Fan, Xiaohui; Yue, Minghao; Wu, Xue-Bing; Li, Jiangtao; Bian, Fuyan; Jiang, Linhua; Bañados, Eduardo; Beletsky, Yuri | Exploring Reionization-Era Quasars IV: Discovery of Six New $z gtrsim 6.5$ Quasars with DES, VHS and unWISE Photometry | ||||
| 14 | 2018arXiv181107928D | 1.000 | 11/2018 | A X R C U | |
| Duncan, Kenneth J; Sabater, J.; Röttgering, H. J. A.; Jarvis, M. J.; Smith, D. J. B.; Best, P. N.; Callingham, J. R.; Cochrane, R.; Croston, J. H.; Hardcastle, M. J.; and 17 coauthors | The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey IV. First Data Release: Photometric redshifts and rest-frame magnitudes | ||||
| 15 | 2018MNRAS.480.1705L | 1.000 | 10/2018 | A E F X R C S U | |
| Li, Song-lin; Shi, Yong; Chen, Yan-Mei; Tabor, Martha; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Chen, Jian-hang; Yu, Xiao-ling; Bing, Long-ji | An early-type galaxy with an inner star-forming disc | ||||
| 16 | 2018arXiv181011926W | 1.000 | 10/2018 | A X R C U | |
| Wang, Feige; Yang, Jinyi; Fan, Xiaohui; Wu, Xue-Bing; Yue, Minghao; Li, Jiang-Tao; Bian, Fuyan; Jiang, Linhua; Bañados, Eduardo; Schindler, Jan-Torge; and 15 coauthors | Exploring Reionization-Era Quasars III: Discovery of 16 Quasars at $6.4lesssim z lesssim 6.9$ with DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and UKIRT Hemisphere Survey and Quasar Luminosity Function at $zsim6.7$ | ||||
| 17 | 2018ApJ...866...36L | 1.000 | 10/2018 | A E F X D R C U | |
| Lan, Ting-Wen; Mo, Houjun | The Circumgalactic Medium of eBOSS Emission Line Galaxies: Signatures of Galactic Outflows in Gas Distribution and Kinematics | ||||
| 18 | 2018ApJ...864..142D | 1.000 | 09/2018 | A E F X R C S N U | |
| Davies, Frederick B.; Hennawi, Joseph F.; Bañados, Eduardo; Lukić, Zarija; Decarli, Roberto; Fan, Xiaohui; Farina, Emanuele P.; Mazzucchelli, Chiara; Rix, Hans-Walter; Venemans, Bram P.; and 3 coauthors | Quantitative Constraints on the Reionization History from the IGM Damping Wing Signature in Two Quasars at z > 7 | ||||
| 19 | 2018AJ....156..131N | 1.000 | 09/2018 | A E F X R C S U | |
| Nidever, David L.; Dey, Arjun; Olsen, Knut; Ridgway, Stephen; Nikutta, Robert; Juneau, Stephanie; Fitzpatrick, Michael; Scott, Adam; Valdes, Francisco | First Data Release of the All-sky NOAO Source Catalog | ||||
| 20 | 2018PASP..130h5001Z | 1.000 | 08/2018 | A E F X R U | |
| Zhou, Zhimin; Zhou, Xu; Zou, Hu; Zhang, Tianmeng; Nie, Jundan; Peng, Xiyan; Fan, Xiaohui; Jiang, Linhua; McGreer, Ian; Yang, Jinyi; and 7 coauthors | Photometric Calibration for the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey and Mayall z-band Legacy Survey | ||||
| 21 | 2018ApJS..237...37Z | 1.000 | 08/2018 | A E F X R C U | |
| Zou, Hu; Zhang, Tianmeng; Zhou, Zhimin; Peng, Xiyan; Nie, Jundan; Zhou, Xu; Fan, Xiaohui; Jiang, Linhua; McGreer, Ian; Dey, Arjun; and 22 coauthors | The Second Data Release of the Beijing–Arizona Sky Survey | ||||
| 22 | 2018ApJ...862..109Y | 1.000 | 08/2018 | A E F X R C S N U | |
| Yang, Qian; Wu, Xue-Bing; Fan, Xiaohui; Jiang, Linhua; McGreer, Ian; Shangguan, Jinyi; Yao, Su; Wang, Bingquan; Joshi, Ravi; Green, Richard; and 5 coauthors | Discovery of 21 New Changing-look AGNs in the Northern Sky | ||||
| 23 | 2018SPIE10702E..1FM | 1.000 | 07/2018 | A E X R C U | |
| Martini, Paul; Bailey, Stephen; Besuner, Robert W.; Brooks, David; Doel, Peter; Edelstein, Jerry; Eisenstein, Daniel; Flaugher, Brenna; Gutierrez, Gaston; Harris, Stewart E.; and 16 coauthors | Overview of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument | ||||
| 24 | 2018ApJ...861....6L | 1.000 | 07/2018 | A E F X R C U | |
| Li, Zefeng; McGreer, Ian D.; Wu, Xue-Bing; Fan, Xiaohui; Yang, Qian | The Ensemble Photometric Variability of Over 105 Quasars in the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | ||||
| 25 | 2018arXiv180408657D | 1.000 | 04/2018 | A X R C U | |
| Dey, Arjun; Schlegel, David J.; Lang, Dustin; Blum, Robert; Burleigh, Kaylan; Fan, Xiaohui; Findlay, Joseph R.; Finkbeiner, Doug; Herrera, David; Juneau, Stephanie; and 143 coauthors | Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys | ||||
| 26 | 2018ApJ...852...44G | 1.000 | 01/2018 | A E F X R C S N U | |
| Garling, Christopher; Willman, Beth; Sand, David J.; Hargis, Jonathan; Crnojević, Denija; Bechtol, Keith; Carlin, Jeffrey L.; Strader, Jay; Zou, Hu; Zhou, Xu; and 4 coauthors | Mapping the Tidal Destruction of the Hercules Dwarf: A Wide-field DECam Imaging Search for RR Lyrae Stars | ||||
| 27 | 2017AJ....154..269Y | 1.000 | 12/2017 | A E F X D R C S O U | |
| Yang, Qian; Wu, Xue-Bing; Fan, Xiaohui; Jiang, Linhua; McGreer, Ian; Green, Richard; Yang, Jinyi; Schindler, Jan-Torge; Wang, Feige; Zuo, Wenwen; Fu, Yuming | Quasar Photometric Redshifts and Candidate Selection: A New Algorithm Based on Optical and Mid-infrared Photometric Data | ||||
| 28 | 2017PASP..129f4101Z | 1.000 | 06/2017 | A E F X R C S U | |
| Zou, Hu; Zhou, Xu; Fan, Xiaohui; Zhang, Tianmeng; Zhou, Zhimin; Nie, Jundan; Peng, Xiyan; McGreer, Ian; Jiang, Linhua; Dey, Arjun; and 9 coauthors | Project Overview of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey | ||||
| 29 | 2017AJ....153..276Z | 1.000 | 06/2017 | A E F X R C S U | |
| Zou, Hu; Zhang, Tianmeng; Zhou, Zhimin; Nie, Jundan; Peng, Xiyan; Zhou, Xu; Jiang, Linhua; Cai, Zheng; Dey, Arjun; Fan, Xiaohui; and 18 coauthors | The First Data Release of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey | ||||
| 30 | 2017ApJ...839...27W | 1.000 | 04/2017 | A E F X D R C S N U | |
| Wang, Feige; Fan, Xiaohui; Yang, Jinyi; Wu, Xue-Bing; Yang, Qian; Bian, Fuyan; McGreer, Ian D.; Li, Jiang-Tao; Li, Zefeng; Ding, Jiani; and 12 coauthors | First Discoveries of z > 6 Quasars with the DECam Legacy Survey and UKIRT Hemisphere Survey | ||||
| 31 | 2016arXiv161100037D | 1.000 | 10/2016 | A X R C U | |
| DESI Collaboration; Aghamousa, Amir; Aguilar, Jessica; Ahlen, Steve; Alam, Shadab; Allen, Lori E.; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Annis, James; Bailey, Stephen; Balland, Christophe; and 283 coauthors | The DESI Experiment Part II: Instrument Design | ||||
| 32 | 2016arXiv161100036D | 1.000 | 10/2016 | A X R C U | |
| DESI Collaboration; Aghamousa, Amir; Aguilar, Jessica; Ahlen, Steve; Alam, Shadab; Allen, Lori E.; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Annis, James; Bailey, Stephen; Balland, Christophe; and 283 coauthors | The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design | ||||
