Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
(Last update: 10-Apr-2024)

Result of query: info cati DELS$

Details on Acronym:   DELS
  
DELS (DESI Legacy imaging Survey)
Write:<<DELS NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN>>
Object:(Opt)  (SIMBAD class: Optical = Optical Source)
Note:The catalog object number provided by the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys is the combination the following fields: release,brickid,objid.
For more information, visit: https://www.legacysurvey.org/
Originof the Acronym: S = Created by Simbad, the CDS Database

Details on Acronym:   DELS
  
DELS (DESI Legacy imaging survey)
Write:<<DELS JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s>>
<<DELS JHHMM+DDMM>> (not recognised by Simbad, but found in literature)
N: ?
Object:(Opt)  (SIMBAD class: Optical = Optical Source)
Note:DECaLS, together with the g, r-bands Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS, Zou et al. 2017PASP..129f4101Z) and the Mayall z-band Legacy Survey (MzLS) provide imaging to support target selection for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), and are collectively referred to as the DESI Legacy imaging survey (DELS).
Only the first reference citing DELS objects is listed here.
Ref:=2017ApJ...839...27W
byWANG F. , FAN X., YANG J., WU X.-B., YANG Q., BIAN F., McGREER I.D., LI J.-T., LI Z., DING J., DEY A., DYE S., FINDLAY J.R., GREEN R., JAMES D., JIANG L., LANG D., LAWRENCE A., MYERS A.D., ROSS N.P., SCHLEGEL D.J., SHANKS T.
 Astrophys. J., 839, 27-27 (2017)
  First discoveries of z > 6 quasars with the DECam Legacy Survey and UKIRT Hemisphere Survey.
oTable 3: <DELS JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s> N=3. Table 4: <[WFY2017] JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s> N=44.
Originof the Acronym: A = Assigned by the author(s)