The Third Data Release of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey
Hu Zou, Xu Zhou, Xiaohui Fan, Tianmeng Zhang, Zhimin Zhou, Xiyan Peng,, Jundan Nie, Linhua Jiang, Ian McGreer, Zheng Cai, Guangwen Chen, Xinkai Chen,, Arjun Dey, Dongwei Fan, Joseph R. Findlay, Jinghua Gao, Yizhou Gu, Yucheng, Guo, Boliang He, Zhaoji Jiang, Junjie Jin, Xu Kong

TL;DR
The third data release of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey provides comprehensive, high-precision photometric and astrometric data over 5400 deg$^2$ for use in cosmological and astronomical research, with publicly accessible data products.
Contribution
This paper presents the third data release of BASS, including raw, calibrated, and co-added data, with improved depth and homogeneity, supporting spectroscopic targeting for DESI.
Findings
Median astrometric precision of 17 mas relative to Gaia.
Median photometric depth of 24.2, 23.6, and 23.0 mag in g, r, z bands.
High homogeneity in photometric depth across the survey area.
Abstract
The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) is a wide and deep imaging survey to cover a 5400 deg area in the Northern Galactic Cap with the 2.3m Bok telescope using two filters ( and bands). The Mosaic -band Legacy Survey (MzLS) covers the same area in band with the 4m Mayall telescope. These two surveys will be used for spectroscopic targeting of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). The BASS survey observations were completed in 2019 March. This paper describes the third data release (DR3) of BASS, which contains the photometric data from all BASS and MzLS observations between 2015 January and 2019 March. The median astrometric precision relative to {\it Gaia} positions is about 17 mas and the median photometric offset relative to the PanSTARRS1 photometry is within 5 mmag. The median AB magnitude depths for point sources are 24.2, 23.6, and 23.0 mag…
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