The First Data Release of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey
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/ Authors
Hu Zou, Tianmeng Zhang, Zhimin Zhou, Jundan Nie, Xiyan Peng, Xu Zhou, Linhua Jiang, Zheng Cai, Arjun Dey, Xiaohui Fan
and 18 more authors
Dongwei Fan, Yucheng Guo, Boliang He, Zhaoji Jiang, Dustin Lang, Michael Lesser, Zefeng Li, Jun Ma, Shude Mao, Ian McGreer, David Schlegel, Yali Shao, Jiali Wang, Shu Wang, Jin Wu, Xiaohan Wu, Qian Yang, Minghao Yue
/ Abstract
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$^2$ in the $g$ and $r$ bands, and the expected 5$σ$ depths (corrected for the Galactic extinction) in the two bands are 24.0 and 23.4 mag, respectively. BASS started observations in January 2015, and has completed about 41% of the whole area as of July 2016. The first data release contains both calibrated images and photometric catalogs obtained in 2015 and 2016. The depths of single-epoch images in the two bands are 23.4 and 22.9 mag, and the full depths of three epochs are about 24.1 and 23.5 mag, respectively.