Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
(Last update: 26-Apr-2024)

Result of query: info cati VST-ATLAS$

Details on Acronym:   VST-ATLAS
  
VST-ATLAS (Very Large Telescope Survey Telescope ATLAS Survey)
Write:<<VST-ATLAS JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s>>
N: about 5e7
Object:?  (SIMBAD class: Unknown = Object of Unknown Nature)
Note:Optical 5-band (u,g,r,i,z) public survey of 4500deg2 of the Southern Sky at high galactic latitudes to comparable depths to the SDSS in the North. See http://astro.dur.ac.uk/cea/vstatlas/ for further information, and also http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015MNRAS.451.4238S
Notes:Note that ESO has been using ATLAS JHHHMMS.ss+DDMMSS.ss for this survey.
There are no +ve dec objects.
Ref:=2015MNRAS.451.4238S
bySHANKS T. , METCALFE N., CHEHADE B., FINDLAY J.R., IRWIN M.J., GONZALEZ-SOLARES E., LEWIS J.R., KUPCU YOLDAS A., MANN R.G., READ M.A., SUTORIUS E.T.W., VOUTSINAS S.
 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 451, 4238-4252 (2015)
  The VLT Survey Telescope ATLAS.
o<VST-ATLAS JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.ss> N about 5.10^{7}. Durham University
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as <II/350/>
Originof the Acronym: p = Pre-registered to IAU Comm.5

Details on Acronym:   VST-ATLAS
  
VST-ATLAS (Very Large Telescope Survey Telescope ATLAS Survey)
Write:<<VST-ATLAS JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.ss>>
N: about 5e7
Object:?  (SIMBAD class: Unknown = Object of Unknown Nature)
Note:Format JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.ss used in the IAUNAME column of the ESO catalogues (http://archive.eso.org).
See http://astro.dur.ac.uk/cea/vstatlas/
Ref:=2015MNRAS.451.4238S
bySHANKS T. , METCALFE N., CHEHADE B., FINDLAY J.R., IRWIN M.J., GONZALEZ-SOLARES E., LEWIS J.R., KUPCU YOLDAS A., MANN R.G., READ M.A., SUTORIUS E.T.W., VOUTSINAS S.
 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 451, 4238-4252 (2015)
  The VLT Survey Telescope ATLAS.
o<VST-ATLAS JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.ss> N about 5.10^{7}.
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as <II/350/>
Originof the Acronym: A = Assigned by the author(s)