Deep Drilling in the Time Domain with DECam: Survey Characterization

分类： 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间： 2023-02-19

Melissa L. Graham Robert A. Knop Thomas Kennedy Peter E. Nugent Eric Bellm Márcio Catelan Avi Patel Hayden Smotherman Monika Soraisam Steven Stetzler Lauren N. Aldoroty Autumn Awbrey Karina Baeza-Villagra Pedro H. Bernardinelli Federica Bianco Dillon Brout Riley Clarke William I. Clarkson Thomas Collett James R. A. Davenport

摘要： This paper presents a new optical imaging survey of four deep drilling fields (DDFs), two Galactic and two extragalactic, with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the 4 meter Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO). During the first year of observations in 2021, $>$4000 images covering 21 square degrees (7 DECam pointings), with $\sim$40 epochs (nights) per field and 5 to 6 images per night per filter in $g$, $r$, $i$, and/or $z$, have become publicly available (the proprietary period for this program is waived). We describe the real-time difference-image pipeline and how alerts are distributed to brokers via the same distribution system as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). In this paper, we focus on the two extragalactic deep fields (COSMOS and ELAIS-S1), characterizing the detected sources and demonstrating that the survey design is effective for probing the discovery space of faint and fast variable and transient sources. We describe and make publicly available 4413 calibrated light curves based on difference-image detection photometry of transients and variables in the extragalactic fields. We also present preliminary scientific analysis regarding Solar System small bodies, stellar flares and variables, Galactic anomaly detection, fast-rising transients and variables, supernovae, and active galactic nuclei.

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