KISS -- KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey

The KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey (KISS) is a wide field objective prism survey which utilizes the KPNO Burrell Schmidt telescope with a 2048 x 2048 CCD detector. The survey detects strong-lined emission line galaxies (ELGs) with continuum magnitudes down to B = 20 and redshifts out to z = 0.1. KISS extends previous objective prism surveys by going 2-3 magnitudes deeper yet still covering a large area on the sky. We completed our first survey strip (covering 102 square degrees) in the spring of 1996.

The following pages describe the survey in more detail, highlight some of the science applications for the survey data, and provide a status report on the survey.