The Fornax Cluster through S-PLUS

TL;DR

This paper introduces the S-PLUS survey and its specific application to studying the Fornax galaxy cluster, utilizing multi-band optical photometry over a large sky area with a new robotic telescope.

Contribution

It presents the design and initial application of the S-PLUS survey to the Fornax cluster, demonstrating the survey's capability for detailed galaxy cluster studies.

Findings

Homogeneous 12-band photometry of the Fornax cluster obtained.

Coverage of approximately 11 x 7 degrees of the sky.

Demonstrated the effectiveness of S-PLUS for galaxy cluster analysis.

Abstract

The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) aims to map $\approx$ 9300 deg$^2$ of the Southern sky using the Javalambre filter system of 12 optical bands, 5 Sloan-like filters and 7 narrow-band filters centered on several prominent stellar features ([OII], Ca H+K, D4000, H$_{\delta}$, Mgb, H$_{\alpha}$ and CaT). S-PLUS is carried out with the T80-South, a new robotic 0.826-m telescope located on CTIO, equipped with a wide FoV camera (2 deg$^2$). In this poster we introduce project #59 of the S-PLUS collaboration aimed at studying the Fornax galaxy cluster covering an sky area of $\approx$ 11 $\times$ 7 deg$^2$, and with homogeneous photometry in the 12 optical bands of S-PLUS (Coordinator: A. Smith Castelli).