The Blanco Cosmology Survey: Data Acquisition, Processing, Calibration, Quality Diagnostics, and Data Release

• Published in: The Astrophysical Journal
• Main Authors: Desai, S., Armstrong, R., Mohr, J. J., Semler, D. R., Liu, J., Bertin, E., Allam, S. S., Barkhouse, W. A., Bazin, G., Buckley-Geer, E. J., Cooper, M. C., Hansen, S. M., High, F. W., Lin, H., Lin, Y. -T., Ngeow, C. -C., Rest, A., Song, J., Tucker, D., Zenteno, A.
• Other Authors: Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2012
• Subjects: cosmology: observations; galaxies: clusters: general; methods: data analysis; surveys; techniques: image processing; Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics; [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Blanco; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03645778; https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/757/1/83

International audience The Blanco Cosmology Survey (BCS) is a 60 night imaging survey of ~80 deg 2 of the southern sky located in two fields: (α, δ) = (5 hr, -55°) and (23 hr, -55°). The survey was carried out between 2005 and 2008 in griz bands with the Mosaic2 imager on the Blanco 4 m telescope. T...