The DENIS point source catalogue towards the magellanic clouds
- Author(s)
- M -R L Cioni, Cecile Loup, Harm J. Habing, Pascal Fouque, E Bertin, Erik R. Deul, Daniel Egret, Ch Alard, B de Batz, J Borsenberger, Michel Dennefeld, Nicolas Epchtein, Thierry Forveille, Francisco Garzon, Josef Hron, Stefan Kimeswenger, Francois Lacombe, Th Le Bertre, Gary A. Mamon, Alain Omont, Georges Paturel, Paolo Persi, Annie C. Robin, Daniel Rouan, G. Simon, D Tiphene, Isabelle Vauglin, Stefan J. Wagner
- Abstract
We have compiled the near infrared Point Source Catalogue (PSC) towards the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) extracted from the data obtained with the Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky - DENIS (Epchtein et al. 1997). The catalogue covers an area of of 19.87 × 16 square degrees centered on (a, d) = (5h27m20s,-69°00'00?) for the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and 14.7 × 10 square degrees centered on (a, d) = (1h02m40s,-73°00'00?) for the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) at the epoch J2000. It contains about 1300000 sources towards the LMC and 300000 sources towards the SMC each detected in at least 2 of the 3 photometric bands involved in the survey (I, J, Ks). 70% of the detected sources are true members of the Magellanic Clouds, respectively and consist mainly of red giants, asymptotic giant branch stars and super-giants. The observations have all been made with the same instrument and the data have been calibrated and reduced uniformly. The catalogue provides a homogeneous set of photometric data.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Leiden University, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes, Université Paris VI - Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Université de recherche Paris Sciences et Lettres, Université Côte d'Azur, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, University of La Laguna, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matiere en Astrophysique, Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "Adriano Buzzati-Traverso", CNR, Observatoire de Besançon, CNRS, Landessternwarte Königstuhl (LSW)
- Journal
- Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series
- Volume
- 144
- Pages
- 235-245
- No. of pages
- 11
- ISSN
- 0365-0138
- Publication date
- 2000
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/4227fb1b-4eff-460d-ae78-99996bc6a9a0