# The SuperCOSMOS all-sky galaxy catalogue

@article{Peacock2016TheSA,
title={The SuperCOSMOS all-sky galaxy catalogue},
author={John A Peacock and Nigel C. Hambly and Maciej Bilicki and H. T. Macgillivray and Lance Miller and Mike A. Read and Susan Barbara Tritton},
journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
year={2016},
volume={462},
pages={2085-2098}
}
• Published 5 July 2016
• Physics
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
We describe the construction of an all-sky galaxy catalogue, using SuperCOSMOS scans of Schmidt photographic plates from theUKSchmidt Telescope and Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey. The photographic photometry is calibrated using Sloan Digital Sky Survey data, with results that are linear to 2 per cent or better. All-sky photometric uniformity is achieved by matching plate overlaps and also by requiring homogeneity in optical-to-2MASS colours, yielding zero-points that are uniform to 0.03…
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