Ravi Gupta
1 Dec 2017

This directory contains data from South Galactic Cap U-band Sky Survey (SCUSS).
Currently only the processed stacked images are available here. They were
downloaded from http://casdc.china-vo.org/archive/SCUSS/dr/images/big/ on
25 Nov 2017 and comprise 3700 FITS files.

The SCUSS data release also includes directories /catalog/, /proper_motion/,
and /images/small/, but the data therein has not yet been downloaded to NERSC.

Also included in /images/ is a FITS table called combcat-pos.fits that lists
FILENAME, RA_CEN, DEC_CEN, and SEEING for all 3700 stacked images. This file
was downloaded from
batc.bao.ac.cn/BASS/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=scuss:combcat-pos.fits

Also see http://batc.bao.ac.cn/BASS/doku.php?id=scuss:scuss

Please cite three papers if you used the SCUSS data:

* project overview (X. Zhou et al., 2016, RAA, 16, 17)
* data reduction (H. Zou et al., 2015, AJ, 150, 104)
* data release (H. Zou et al., 2016, AJ, 151, 37)

Please add an acknowledgement in your papers:

The SCUSS is funded by the Main Direction Program of Knowledge Innovation of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KJCX2-EW-T06). It is also an international cooperative project between National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Steward Observatory of the University of Arizona. Technical support and observational assistance from the Bok telescope are provided by Steward Observatory. The project is managed by the National Astronomical Observatory of China and Shanghai Astronomical Observatory. Data resources are supported by Chinese Astronomical Data Center (CAsDC).