Table · dataset · 2000
Search for peculiar objects
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The NASA Orbital Debris Observatory (NODO) astronomical survey uses a transit 3m liquid mirror telescope to observe a strip of sky in 20 narrowband filters.
Description
In this article, we analyze a subset of data from the 1996 observing season. The catalog consists of 18,000 objects with 10<V<19 observed in 10 narrowband filters ranging from 500 to 950nm.
We first demonstrate the reliability of the data by fitting the Bahcall-Soneira model of the Galaxy to the NODO magnitude counts and color counts at various Galactic latitudes. We then perform a hierarchical clustering analysis on the sample to extract 206 objects, out of a total of 18,000, showing peculiar spectral energy distributions. It is a measure of the reliability of the instrument that we extract so few peculiar objects.
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Although the data and results, per se, may not seem otherwise particularly remarkable, this work constitutes a milestone in optical astronomy, since this is the first article that demonstrates astronomical research with a radically new type of mirror.
Links
Where it is published
- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/509/309 ↗
landing page · from IVOA Registry
Documentation and papers
- ADS 1998ApJ...509..309C ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998ApJ...509..309C ↗
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Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
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- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/apj/509/309 ↗
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Topics
- Stated by source
- Optical
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
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| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://cds.vizier/j/apj/509/309 | 14 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:optical | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_description |
| license_text | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
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