The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS): improved SEDs, morphologies and redshifts with 12 optical filters
Creators: name: de Oliveira, C. Mendes
name: Ribeiro, T.
name: Schoenell, W.
name: Kanaan, A.
name: Overzier, R. A.
name: Molino, A.
name: Sampedro, L.
name: Coelho, P.
name: Barbosa, C. E.
name: Cortesi, A.
name: Costa-Duarte, M. V.
name: Herpich, F. R.
name: Hernandez-Jimenez, J. A.
name: Placco, V. M.
name: Xavier, H. S.
name: Abramo, L. R.
name: Saito, R. K.
name: Chies-Santos, A. L.
name: Ederoclite, A.
name: de Oliveira, R. Lopes
name: Gonçalves, D. R.
name: Akras, S.
name: Almeida, L. A.
name: Almeida-Fernandes, F.
name: Beers, T. C.
name: Bonatto, C.
name: Bonoli, S.
name: Cypriano, E. S.
name: de Lima, Erik V. R.
name: de Souza, R. S.
name: de Souza, G. Fabiano
name: Ferrari, F.
name: Gonçalves, T. S.
name: Gonzalez, A. H.
name: Gutiérrez-Soto, L. A.
name: Hartmann, E. A.
name: Jaffe, Y.
name: Kerber, L. O.
name: Lima-Dias, C.
name: Lopes, P. A. A.
name: Menendez-Delmestre, K.
name: Nakazono, L. M. I.
name: Novais, P. M.
name: Ortega-Minakata, R. A.
name: Pereira, E. S.
name: Perottoni, H. D.
name: Queiroz, C.
name: Reis, R. R. R.
name: Santos, W. A.
name: Santos-Silva, T.
name: Santucci, R. M.
name: Barbosa, C. L.
name: Siffert, B. B.
name: Sodré, L.
name: Torres-Flores, S.
name: Westera, P.
name: Whitten, D. D.
name: Alcaniz, J. S.
name: Alonso-García, Javier
name: Alencar, S.
name: Alvarez-Candal, A.
name: Amram, P.
name: Azanha, L.
name: Barbá, R. H.
name: Bernardinelli, P. H.
name: Fernandes, M. Borges
name: Branco, V.
name: Brito-Silva, D.
name: Buzzo, M. L.
name: Caffer, J.
name: Campillay, A.
name: Cano, Z.
name: Carvano, J. M.
name: Castejon, M.
name: Fernandes, R. Cid
name: Dantas, M. L. L.
name: Daflon, S.
name: Damke, G.
name: de la Reza, R.
name: de Azevedo, L. J. de Melo
name: De Paula, D. F.
name: Diem, K. G.
name: Donnerstein, R.
name: Dors, O. L.
name: Dupke, R.
name: Eikenberry, S.
name: Escudero, Carlos G.
name: Faifer, Favio R.
name: Farías, H.
name: Fernandes, B.
name: Fernandes, C.
name: Fontes, S.
name: Galarza, A.
name: Hirata, N. S. T.
name: Katena, L.
name: Gregorio-Hetem, J.
name: Hernández-Fernández, J. D.
name: Izzo, L.
name: Arancibia, M. Jaque
name: Jatenco-Pereira, V.
name: Jiménez-Teja, Y.
name: Kann, D. A.
name: Krabbe, A. C.
name: Labayru, C.
name: Lazzaro, D.
name: Neto, G. B. Lima
name: Lopes, Amanda R.
name: Magalhães, R.
name: Makler, M.
name: de Menezes, R.
name: Miralda-Escudé, J.
name: Monteiro-Oliveira, R.
name: Montero-Dorta, A. D.
name: Muñoz-Elgueta, N.
name: Nemmen, R. S.
name: Castellón, J. L. Nilo
name: Oliveira, A. S.
name: Ortíz, D.
name: Pattaro, E.
name: Pereira, C. B.
name: Quint, B.
name: Riguccini, L.
name: Pinto, H. J. Rocha
name: Rodrigues, I.
name: Roig, F.
name: Rossi, S.
name: Saha, Kanak
name: Santos, R.
name: Müller, A. Schnorr
name: Sesto, Leandro A.
name: Silva, R.
name: Castelli, Analía V. Smith
name: Teixeira, Ramachrisna
name: Telles, E.
name: de Souza, R. C. Thom
name: Thöne, C.
name: Trevisan, M.
name: Postigo, A. de Ugarte
name: Urrutia-Viscarra, F.
name: Veiga, C. H.
name: Vika, M.
name: Vitorelli, A. Z.
name: Werle, A.
name: Werner, S. V.
name: Zaritsky, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) is imaging ~9300 deg^2 of the celestial sphere in twelve optical bands using a dedicated 0.8 m robotic telescope, the T80-South, at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile. The telescope is equipped with a 9.2k by 9.2k e2v detector with 10 um pixels, resulting in a field-of-view of 2 deg^2 with a plate scale of 0.55"/pixel. The survey consists of four main subfields, which include two non-contiguous fields at high Galactic latitudes (8000 deg^2 at |b| &gt; 30 deg) and two areas of the Galactic plane and bulge (for an additional 1300 deg^2). S-PLUS uses the Javalambre 12-band magnitude system, which includes the 5 u, g, r, i, z broad-band filters and 7 narrow-band filters centered on prominent stellar spectral features: the Balmer jump/[OII], Ca H+K, H-delta, G-band, Mg b triplet, H-alpha, and the Ca triplet. S-PLUS delivers accurate photometric redshifts (delta_z/(1+z) = 0.02 or better) for galaxies with r &lt; 20 AB mag and redshift &lt; 0.5, thus producing a 3D map of the local Universe over a volume of more than 1 (Gpc/h)^3. The final S-PLUS catalogue will also enable the study of star formation and stellar populations in and around the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, as well as searches for quasars, variable sources, and low-metallicity stars. In this paper we introduce the main characteristics of the survey, illustrated with science verification data highlighting the unique capabilities of S-PLUS. We also present the first public data release of ~336 deg^2 of the Stripe-82 area, which is available at http://datalab.noao.edu/splus.
description: Updated to reflect the published version (MNRAS, 489, 241). For a short introductory video of the S-PLUS project, see https://youtu.be/yc5kHrHU9Jk - The S-PLUS Data Release 1 is available at http://datalab.noao.edu/splus