The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys

1. Front Matter

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2. Massimo Capaccioli: A Life for Astronomy

   • G. Longo, The Organizing Committee

   Pages 1-6

3. The Universe of Imaging Surveys

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Digital Sky Surveys from the Ground: Status and Perspectives

      • T. Shanks

      Pages 9-24

   3. Public Surveys at ESO

      • M. Arnaboldi, N. Delmotte, S. Geier, M. Hilker, G. Hussain, L. Mascetti et al.

      Pages 25-32

   4. Galaxy Evolution in the Era of Digital Surveys: A Theoretical Overview

      • G. De Lucia

      Pages 33-40

   5. Photometric Surveys of the Galactic Bulge and Long Bar

      • O. Gerhard, C. Wegg, M. Portail

      Pages 41-47

   6. The VMC Survey

      • M.-R. L. Cioni, The VMC team

      Pages 49-54

   7. Galactic Plane Hα Surveys: IPHAS and VPHAS+

      • N. J. Wright

      Pages 55-59

   8. Science Archives: Facilitating Survey Science

      • M. Read, B. Mann, R. Blake, R. Collins, N. Cross, C. Davenhall et al.

      Pages 61-65

   9. Science Archives at the Wide Field Astronomy Unit

      • R. Blake, M. Read, E. Sutorius, N. Hambly, N. Cross, R. Collins et al.

      Pages 67-70

   10. HELP: The Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project and The Coming of Age of Multi-wavelength Astrophysics

       • M. Vaccari

       Pages 71-77

   11. Cepheids and the Distance Ladder

       • I. Musella

       Pages 79-83

   12. The Environment of Barred Galaxies Revisited

       • B. Cervantes Sodi, C. Li, C. Park, L. Wang

       Pages 85-89

   13. Using Gamma Regression for Photometric Redshifts of Survey Galaxies

       • J. Elliott, R. S. de Souza, A. Krone-Martins, E. Cameron, E. E. O. Ishida, J. Hilbe

       Pages 91-96

   14. The Nature of Faint Blue Stars in the PHL and Ton Catalogues Based on Digital Sky Surveys

       • H. Andernach, F. Romero Sauri, W. Copó Córdova, I. del C. Santiago-Bautista

       Pages 97-100

   15. The Construction of a Reference Star Catalog for the Euclid Mission

       • B. Bucciarelli, R. Drimmel, M. G. Lattanzi, R. L. Smart, A. Spagna, A. Bacchetta et al.

       Pages 101-104

   16. Singular Spectrum Analysis for Astronomical Time Series: Constructing a Parsimonious Hypothesis Test

       • G. Greco, D. Kondrashov, S. Kobayashi, M. Ghil, M. Branchesi, C. Guidorzi et al.

       Pages 105-107

   17. The Environment of Radio Sources in the VLA-COSMOS Survey Field

       • N. Malavasi, S. Bardelli, P. Ciliegi, O. Ilbert, L. Pozzetti, E. Zucca

       Pages 109-112

4. News from VST

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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These are the proceedings of a meeting in honour of Massimo Capaccioli at the occasion of his 70th birthday. The conference aimed at summarizing the results from the main current and past digital sky survey projects and at discussing how these can be used to inspire ongoing projects and better plan the future ones. Over the last decades, digital sky surveys performed with dedicated telescopes and finely-tuned wide-field cameras, have revolutionized astronomy. They have become the main tool to investigate the nearby and far away universe, thus providing new insights in the understanding of the galaxy structure and assembly across time, the dark components of the universe, as well as the history of our own galaxy. They have also opened the time domain leading to a new understanding of the transient phenomena in the universe. By providing public access to top quality data, digital surveys have also changed the everyday practice of astronomers who have become less dependent on direct access to large observing facilities. The full scientific exploitation of these surveys has also triggered significant advances in both space and ground based technology and in the field of multi-object spectroscopy. The various sections of this book are devoted to different relevant aspects of astrophysics in the era of digital sky surveys and include both review and shorter, more focused contributions.

• DEC@BLANCO
• Digital Sky Surveys
• ESO VISTA Surveys
• ESO VST Surveys
• EUCLID Survey
• Future Digital Sky Surveys
• Imaging Surveys
• Large Synoptic Survey Telescope LSST
• Massimo Capaccioli
• Public Surveys Project
• Skymapper Wide-field Survey Telescope
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey SDSS
• Spectroscopic Surveys
• VLT Survey Telescope

• INAF - Observatory of Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy

  Nicola R. Napolitano, Marcella Marconi

• Department of Physics “Ettore Pancini”, University “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

  Giuseppe Longo

• Department of Physics “Ettore Pancini”, University "Federico II", Napoli, Italy

  Maurizio Paolillo

• INAF - Observatory of Capodimonte, Naples, Italy

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