creator_did = ivo://CDS/P/Skymapper/DR4/color hips_creator = Boch T. (CDS) hips_copyright = CNRS/Unistra hips_license = ODbL-1.0 obs_title = SkyMapper DR4 color (from i, r, g) obs_collection = SkyMapper obs_description = SkyMapper Southern Survey (SMSS) fourth data release (DR4) covers 26,000 deg2 in six optical filters (u, v, g, r, i, z) from over 400,000 images acquired by the 1.3 m SkyMapper telescope between 2014-03 and 2021-09. The 6-band sky coverage extends from the South Celestial Pole to Dec = +16° , with some images reaching Dec ∼ +28°. In contrast to previous DRs, we include all good-quality images from the facility taken during that time span, not only those explicitly taken for the public Survey. From the image dataset, we produce a catalogue of over 15 billion detections made from ∼ 700 million unique astrophysical objects. The typical 10σ depths for each field range between 18.5 and 20.5 mag, depending on the filter, but certain sky regions include longer exposures that reach as deep as 22 mag in some filters. HiPS made by CDS from deep and shallow images, rejecting images with strong background variation. The color HiPS has been created from bands i, r and g. obs_ack = The national facility capability for SkyMapper has been funded through ARC LIEF grant LE130100104 from the Australian Research Council, awarded to the University of Sydney, the Australian National University, Swinburne University of Technology, the University of Queensland, the University of Western Australia, the University of Melbourne, Curtin University of Technology, Monash University and the Australian Astronomical Observatory. SkyMapper is owned and operated by The Australian National University's Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The survey data were processed and provided by the SkyMapper Team at ANU. The SkyMapper node of the All-Sky Virtual Observatory (ASVO) is hosted at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI). Development and support of the SkyMapper node of the ASVO has been funded in part by Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL) and the Australian Government through the Commonwealth's Education Investment Fund (EIF) and National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), particularly the National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NeCTAR) and the Australian National Data Service Projects (ANDS). prov_progenitor = https://dx.doi.org/10.25914/5M47-S621 bib_reference = 2024PASA...41...61O bib_reference_url = https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024PASA...41...61O/abstract obs_copyright = Australian National University #obs_copyright_url = URL to copyright page of the original data t_min = 56731 t_max = 59473 obs_regime = Optical # https://svo2.cab.inta-csic.es/svo/theory/fps/index.php?id=SkyMapper/SkyMapper.r&mode=browse&gname=SkyMapper&gname2=SkyMapper#filter em_min = 4.10457e-7 em_max = 8.65331e-7 client_category = Image/Optical/Skymapper/DR4 hips_builder = Aladin/HipsGen v12.135 hips_version = 1.4 hips_release_date = 2025-07-16T09:08Z hips_frame = equatorial hips_order = 10 hips_order_min = 0 hips_tile_width = 512 hips_status = public master clonableOnce hips_tile_format = png hips_initial_ra = 264.024714 hips_initial_dec = -37.3665812 hips_initial_fov = 300 hips_pixel_scale = 0.229 dataproduct_type = image moc_sky_fraction = 0.6327 hips_creation_date = 2025-06-11T21:30Z #hips_service_url = ex: http://yourHipsServer/Skymapper DR4 color hipsgen_date = 2025-07-16T08:41Z hipsgen_params = out=CDS_P_Skymapper_DR4_color ALLSKY hipsgen_date_1 = 2025-07-16T08:42Z hipsgen_params_1 = out=CDS_P_Skymapper_DR4_color ALLSKY hipsgen_date_2 = 2025-07-16T08:43Z hipsgen_params_2 = out=CDS_P_Skymapper_DR4_color color=png ALLSKY hips_estsize = 6336620843 hips_nb_tiles = 10623303 dataproduct_subtype = color hips_check_code = png:2246323813 hipsgen_date_3 = 2025-07-16T09:08Z hipsgen_params_3 = out=CDS_P_Skymapper_DR4_color color=png CHECKCODE