The Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey (or EC in astronomical notation)[1] is a major astronomical survey to discover blue stellar objects brighter than B~18 in the southern hemisphere,[2] and is an extension of the earlier Palomar-Green survey.[1] At the time of its initiation, the completed survey was expected to cover "around 10,000 square degrees at high galactic latitudes in the southern hemisphere to a limiting magnitude of B ~ 18 mag".[3] The star EC 20058-5234, also known as QU Telescopii, was discovered during the survey. Other notable stars observed include BB Doradus, and the survey generally contributed to the number of known H-deficient stars.[4]
The stellar objects to be observed were "selected by automatic techniques from U and B pairs of UK Schmidt Telescope plates scanned with the COSMOS measuring machine", with "follow-up photometry and spectroscopy" being obtained with the South African Astronomical Observatory telescopes.[5]
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edit- ^ a b C. Aerts, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, D. W. Kurtz, Asteroseismology (2010), p. 105.
- ^ M.A. Barstow, White Dwarfs: Advances in Observation and Theory (2012), p. 38.
- ^ A. G. Davis Philip, Saul J. Adelman, Arthur R. Upgren, Hot Stars in the Galactic Halo (1994), p. 70.
- ^ John B. Hearnshaw, The Analysis of Starlight: Two Centuries of Astronomical Spectroscopy (2014), p. 226.
- ^ R.S. Stobie, et al., The Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. (June 1, 1997), Vol. 287, No. 4, p. 848-866.
