The Ohio State University College of Mathematical & Physical Sciences Department of Astronomy

OSUBSGS

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THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY BRIGHT SPIRAL GALAXY SURVEY

Overview

The goal of the Ohio State Bright Spiral Galaxy Survey is to create a database of deep, photometrically calibrated images of a complete magnitude limited sample of nearly 200 bright, nearby, well-resolved spirals.

The selection criteria are based on the RC3:

• Spiral galaxies classified as S0/a or later
• B < 12
• D < 6 arcmin

Survey Status:

• OSUBSGS Early Data Release (EDR - 2002 June 20) that accompanies the publication of Eskridge et al. 2002 [astro-ph/0206320].
  High Resolution Figures from this paper.

• Galaxies for which the observations are complete

• Galaxies with incomplete BVRJHK imaging

Results & Publications:

• OSUBSGS Early Data Release (EDR), the set of B- and H-band images presented in Eskridge et al. 2002 [astro-ph/0206320]. (2002 June 20). See also the Hi-Res Figures from that paper.

• Refereed Journal Publications Based on OSUBSGS Data.

• Optical and Infrared Images of Galaxies: What's to be Learned? [152K PS file], by Frogel, Quillen, and Pogge (invited review in New Extragalactic Perspectives in the New South Africa, ed. by Block and Greenberg, Dordrect: Kluwer, p 65). This paper discusses the scientific objectives of galaxy surveys in general and of the OSUBSGS in particular.

• A number of images from the OSUBGS are in the OSU Astronomy Image Gallery.

• A final data release of the complete OSUBSGS sample is currently in the works, more details when the release date becomes clearer.

The OSUBSGS Team:

The OSUBSGS has been a considerable effort on the part of many people, with particular help from OSU Astronomy Dept. graduate students and undergraduates who served as observers and data reduction and assistants, as well as using OSUBSGS data for their research.

Project PI:

Prof. Jay A. Frogel

Co-Investigators:

Roger L. Davies (Durham, UK)
Darren DePoy (OSU)
Paul Eskridge (OSU, MSU)
Richard Pogge (OSU)
Alice Quillen (OSU, Rochester)
Kris Sellgren (OSU)
Donald Terndrup (OSU)

Service Observers:

Roberto Aviles (CTIO)
Ray Bertram (OSU, LBTPO)

Graduate Students:

Andreas Berlind (OSU, Chicago)
Bob Blum (OSU, CTIO)
Glenn Tiede (OSU, U Florida)
Leslie Kuchinski (OSU)
Solange V. Ramirez (OSU, Caltech)
Susan Kassin (OSU)
Anita Krishnamurthi (OSU, NAS)
Mark Houdasheldt (OSU, JHU)
Paul Martini (OSU, OCIW)
Andrew Stephens (OSU, Princeton/Catolica)
Babar Ali (OSU, IPAC)
Alberto Conti (OSU, Pitt)
Rosa Gonzalez (UCB, STScI)

Data Reduction Assistants:

Eric Himburg (OSU)
Gordon Baugh (OSU)
Karrie Gilbert (OSU)
Amy Stutz (OSU)

Our Sponsors:

The OSU Bright Spiral Galaxy Survey was supported by grants from National Science Foundation (AST-9217716 and AST-9617006; PI Jay Frogel), with additional funding from the Ohio State University. The OSIRIS infrared imager/spectrometer used for much of this project was funded in part by NSF grant AST-9016112, and we were granted generous allocations of time by CTIO with OSIRIS and CIRIM for this project, for which we are most grateful. Some of the CCD images for the Survey were acquired with the OSU Imaging Fabry-Perot Spectrometer (IFPS) in direct-imaging mode. The IFPS was funded in part by NSF Grants AST-8822009 and AST-9112879.