The DENIS point source catalogue towards the magellanic clouds

Autor(en)
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
Abstrakt

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(en)
Institut für Astrophysik
Externe Organisation(en)
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, Universidad de La Laguna, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matiere en Astrophysique, Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Observatoire de Besançon, CNRS, Landessternwarte Königstuhl (LSW)
Journal
Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series
Band
144
Seiten
235-245
Anzahl der Seiten
11
ISSN
0365-0138
Publikationsdatum
2000
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
103003 Astronomie
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/4227fb1b-4eff-460d-ae78-99996bc6a9a0