The Southern Sky Survey

南方天空调查将创建第一张南方天空的数字地图，为社区提供一个包含10亿个天体的数据库。这个数据库将供整个社区使用，我们的团队将致力于四个关键领域，包括：通过普查遥远的小行星来研究太阳系的形成；通过观察附近的年轻恒星来探索恒星和行星的形成方式；探测银河系暗物质晕的形状和范围；以及发现宇宙中第一批恒星的形成时间。该数据集还将被用作虚拟天文台的集结地。

The Southern Sky Survey will create the first digital map of the southern sky, providing a community available database of a billion objects. This database will be used by entire community, with our group targetting four key areas including: studying the creation of our solar system through a census of distant asteroids, exploring how stars and planets form by observing nearby young stars, probing the shape and extent of the Galaxy's dark matter halo, and discovering when the first stars in the Universe formed. This data set will also be used as a staging ground for a Virtual Observatory.