A preliminary database of DENIS point sources
- Author(s)
- Nicolas Epchtein, Erik R. Deul, Sebastien Derriere, J Borsenberger, Daniel Egret, Guy Simon, Ch Alard, Lajos G. Balazs, B de Batz, M -R L Cioni, E Copet, Michel Dennefeld, Thierry Forveille, Pascal Fouque, Francisco Garzon, Harm J. Habing, A Holl, Josef Hron, Stefan Kimeswenger, Francois Lacombe, Th Le Bertre, Cecile Loup, Gary A. Mamon, Alain Omont, Georges Paturel, Paolo Persi, Annie C. Robin, Daniel Rouan, D Tiphene, Isabelle Vauglin, Stefan J. Wagner
- Abstract
This paper announces the release at CDS of a substantial set of point sources detected by the DENIS project. DENIS is the first astronomical survey of the Southern sky in two near-infrared bands (J at 1.25 œm, and Ks at 2.15 œm) and one optical band (Gunn-i at 0.82 œm), conducted by a European consortium, using the 1m telescope at ESO, La Silla (Chile). The first data release, described here, consists of a preliminary set of about 17 million extracted point sources, corresponding to 102 strips (2% of the Southern sky), and resulting from observations performed in 1996. Data are available through a World-Wide Web server at the CDS (Strasbourg astronomical Data Center): cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/denis.html.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Université Côte d'Azur, Leiden University, Université de Strasbourg, Université de recherche Paris Sciences et Lettres, Paris Observatory, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Université Paris VI - Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes, University of La Laguna, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matiere en Astrophysique, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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
- Volume
- 349
- Pages
- 236-242
- No. of pages
- 7
- ISSN
- 0004-6361
- Publication date
- 1999
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/f168f2fd-91b3-46ae-b3a4-36381583e508