Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract
The Faint Sky Variability Survey is aimed at finding photometric and/or
astrometric variable objects in the brightness range between ∼16th and
∼24th mag on time-scales between tens of minutes and years with
photometric precisions ranging from 3 millimag for the brightest to 0.2
mag for the faintest objects. An area of ∼23 deg2, located at
mid and high Galactic latitudes, has been covered using the Wide Field
Camera on the 2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope on La Palma. Here we describe
the main goals of the Faint Sky Variability Survey and the data
reduction process.