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Galaxies with the DENIS 2 Micron Survey: A Preliminary Report

Astrophysics 2019-07-31 v1

Abstract

The DENIS IJKIJK survey of the entire southern sky is beginning observations this year. It will return one million images, representing 4 Terabytes, among which nearly 10810^8 stars and up to one million galaxies. The main extragalactic applications of such a multi-band, digital, near-IR 2D survey are listed, and the importance and feasibility of a spectroscopic followup are discussed. First estimates of the capabilities for galaxy extraction are given, and illustrated with preliminary images of three very bright galaxies.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9511104,
  title  = {Galaxies with the DENIS 2 Micron Survey: A Preliminary Report},
  author = {Gary A. Mamon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9511104},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Contributed talk at ESO/MPA workshop (June 95) on "Spiral Galaxies in the Near-IR", ed. D. Minniti (Berlin: Springer Verlag) self-unpacking (uuencoded gzipped PostScript)