Data Release 3 of the AAVSO All-Sky Photometric Survey (APASS) (Poster abstract)

Volume 40 number 1 (2012)

Arne A. Henden

AAVSO Headquarters, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138; arne@aavso.org

Stephen E. Levine

Lowell Observatory, 1400 West Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001; sel@lowell.edu

Dirk Terrell

Southwest Research Institute, Space Studies, 1050 Walnut Street, #426, Boulder, CO 80301; terrell@boulder.swri.edu

T. C. Smith

Dark Ridge Observatory, 701 NM Highway 24, Weed, NM 88354; tcsmith@darkridgeobservatory.org

Douglas L. Welch

McMaster University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada; welch@physics.mcmaster.ca

Abstract

(Abstract only) APASS is an all-sky survey in five filters (B,V,g',r',i') covering the magnitude range 10–17. It is currently underway at two sites: Dark Ridge Observatory in New Mexico, and CTIO in Chile. The survey will take approximately two years to complete, and will provide a precision of 0.02 magnitude for well-sampled stars. This paper presents the current status of the project and provides the access methods to the catalog.