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Most of the surveys described in this book cover either the whole sky, or at least a significant fraction of it. Sometimes, however, astronomers can learn a great deal about a particular phenomenon by focussing their attention on a small patch of sky, so long as it contains a large enough number of relevant objects to make it representative.
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Wynn-Williams, G. (2016). Microsurveys. In: Surveying the Skies. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28510-8_13
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