ISSN:
1572-946X
Keywords:
Surveys
;
Blue Stellar Objects
;
Hot Evolved Stars
;
Quasi-stellar Objects
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Abstract The Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey is a major survey to discover blue stellar objects brighter than B ∼ 18 in the southern sky. It is covering an area of sky of 10,000 square degrees with |b| 〉 30° andδ 〈 0°. The blue stellar objects are selected by automatic techniques from U and B pairs of UK Schmidt Telescope plates scanned with the COSMOS measuring machine. Follow-up photometry and spectroscopy are being obtained with the SAAO telescopes to classify objects brighter than B = 16.5. This paper describes the survey, the techniques used to extract the blue stellar objects, the photometric accuracy, the spectroscopic classification, and the completeness of the survey.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00658172
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