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The Hamburg/ESO survey (HES, [4]) is an objective-prism survey for bright quasars based on IIIa-J plates taken with the ESO Schmidt telescope and its 4\(^\circ\) prism. It covers the total southern extragalactic sky \((\delta < +2^\circ \hspace{-1.2mm}.5; \vert b\vert ;\gtrsim 30^\circ)\). All 380 Schmidt plates (effective area \(\sim\) 7000 square degrees) have been taken, and have been digitized and reduced in Hamburg. The spectral range of the HES plates is \(3200 \AA < \lambda < 5300 \AA\), with a seeing-limited spectral resolution of 15 Å at H\(\gamma\). This makes it possible to efficiently exploit the stellar content of the survey.
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Christlieb, N., Reimers, D., Wisotzki, L., Reetz, J., Gehren, T., Beers, T.C. Finding the First Stars: The Hamburg/ESO Objective Prism Survey. In: Weiss, A., Abel, T.G., Hill, V. (eds) The First Stars. ESO ASTROPHYSICS SYMPOSIA. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10719504_6
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