Stellar Systems Group

Mendes de Oliveira, C.; Ribeiro, T.; Schoenell, W.; Kanaan, A.; Overzier, R. A.; Molino, A.; Sampedro, L.; Coelho, P.; Barbosa, C. E.; Cortesi, A.; Costa-Duarte, M. V.; Herpich, F. R.; Hernandez-Jimenez, J. A.; Placco, V. M.; Xavier, H. S.; Abramo, L. R.; Saito, R. K.; Chies-Santos, A. L.; Ederoclite, A.; Lopes de Oliveira, R. Gonçalves, D. R.; Akras, S.; Almeida, L. A.; Almeida-Fernandes, F.; Beers, T. C.; Bonatto, C.; Bonoli, S.; Cypriano, E. S.; de Lima, E. V. R.; de Souza, R. S.; Fabiano de Souza, G.; Ferrari, F.; Gonçalves, T. S.; Gonzalez, A. H.; Gutiérrez-Soto, L. A.; Hartmann, E. A.; Jaffe, Y.; Kerber, L. O.; Lima-Dias, C.; Lopes, P. A. A.; Menendez-Delmestre, K.; Nakazono, L. M. I.; Novais, P. M.; Ortega-Minakata, R. A.; Pereira, E. S.; Perottoni, H. D.; Queiroz, C.; Reis, R. R. R.; Santos, W. A.; Santos-Silva, T.; Santucci, R. M.; Barbosa, C. L.; Siffert, B. B.; Sodré, L., Jr.; Torres-Flores, S.; Westera, P.; Whitten, D. D.; Alcaniz, J. S.; Alonso-García, J.; Alencar, S.; Alvarez-Candal, A.; Amram, P.; Azanha, L.; Barbá, R. H.; Bernardinelli, P. H.; Borges Fernandes, M.; Branco, V.; Brito-Silva, D.; Buzzo, M. L.; Caffer, J.; Campillay, A.; Cano, Z.; Carvano, J. M.; Castejon, M.; Cid Fernandes, R.; Dantas, M. L. L.; Daflon, S.; Damke, G.; de Melo de Azevedo, L. J.; De Paula, D. F.; Diem, K. G.; Donnerstein, R.; Dors, O. L.; Dupke, R.; Eikenberry, S.; Escudero, C. G.; Faifer, F. R.; Farías, H.; Fernandes, B.; Fernandes, C.; Fontes, S.; Galarza, A.; Hirata, N. S. T.; Katena, L.; Gregorio-Hetem, J.; Hernández-Fernández, J. D.; Izzo, L.; Jaque Arancibia, M.; Jatenco-Pereira, V.; Jiménez-Teja, Y.; Kann, D. A.; Krabbe, A. C.; Labayru, C.; Lazzaro, D.; Lima Neto, G. B.; Lopes, A. R.; Magalhães, R.; Makler, M.; de Menezes, R.; Miralda-Escudé, J.; Monteiro-Oliveira, R.; Montero-Dorta, A. D.; Muñoz-Elgueta, N.; Nemmen, R. S.; Nilo Castellón, J. L.; Oliveira, A. S.; Ortíz, D.; Pattaro, E.; Pereira, C. B.; de la Reza, R.; Quint, B.; Riguccini, L.; Rocha Pinto, H. J.; Rodrigues, I.; Roig, F.; Rossi, S.; Saha, K.; Santos, R.; Schnorr Müller, A.; Sesto, L. A.; Silva, R.; Smith Castelli, A. V.; Teixeira, R.; Telles, E.; Thom de Souza, R. C.; Thöne, C.; de Ugarte Postigo, A.; Urrutia-Viscarra, F.; Veiga, C. H.; Vika, M.; Vitorelli, A. Z.; Werle, A.; Werner, S. V.; Zaritsky, D.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Advance Access
08/2019

ABSTRACT

The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) is imaging ̃9300deg2 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×9.2k e2v detector with 10 μm pixels, resulting in a field-of-view of 2 deg2 with a plate scale of 0.55" pixel-1. The survey consists of four main subfields, which include two non-contiguous fields at high Galactic latitudes (|b| > 30°, 8000deg2) and two areas of the Galactic plane and bulge (for an additional 1300deg2). S-PLUS uses the Javalambre 12-band magnitude system, which includes the 5 ugriz broad-band filters and 7 narrow-band filters centered on prominent stellar spectral features: the Balmer jump/[OII], Ca H+K, Hδ, G-band, Mg b triplet, Hα, and the Ca triplet. S-PLUS delivers accurate photometric redshifts (δz/(1 + z) = 0.02 or better) for galaxies with r < 20 AB mag and z < 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 ̃336deg2 of the Stripe-82 area, which is available at datalab.noao.edu/splus.