Stripe 82 Explained

Stripe 82 is a 300 deg² equatorial field of sky that was imaged multiple times by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from 2000 to 2008.^[1] It approximately covers the region with right ascension from 20:00h to 4:00h and declination from -1.26° to +1.26°.

Stripe 82 has also been observed using many other telescopes and instruments, a list of which is given below.

Current data available on Stripe 82

Imaging

Optical/UV Imaging

• SDSS Co-adds (Jiang, LSST, Huff, Annis)
• CFHT i-band (CS82)
• CFHTLS
• DES
• HSC
• GALEX

Near-IR

• UKIDSS
• VHS
• NEWFIRM (Jiang)
• VICS82 (CFHT and VISTA)

Mid-IR

• SHELA
• SpIES
• WISE
• IRAC High-z quasars

Far-IR

• HELMS
• vHerS

Radio/mm

• VLA-L (Hodge et al. 2011, Heywood et al. 2016)
• VLA-S (Hallinan)
• ACT
• ASKAP Variables and Slow Transients (VAST; Murphy et al. 2013, Murphy et al. 2021)

X-ray

• Chandra (LaMassa)
• XMM (LaMassa)
• Swift

Spectra

• SDSS-DR7
• SDSS-DR10
• HETDEX

• Wigglez
• VVDS

• PRIMUS
• DEEP2
• VIPERS

Notes and References

1. Abazajian et al., THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 182:543–558, 2009 June