The DENIS Point Source Catalogue towards the Magellanic Clouds
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 (RA, DEC)=(5h27m20s, -69o00'00'') for the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and 14.7* 10 square degrees centered on (RA, DEC)=(h02m40s, -73o00'00'' 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.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0003177,
title = {The DENIS Point Source Catalogue towards the Magellanic Clouds},
author = {M-R. Cioni and C. Loup and H. J. Habing and P. Fouque' and E. Bertin and E. Deul and D. Egret and C. Alard and B. de Batz and J. Borsenberger and M. Dennefeld and N. Epchtein and T. Forveille and F. Garzon and J. Hron and S. Kimeswenger and F. Lacombe and T. Le Bertre and G. A. Mamon and A. Omont and G. Paturel and P. Persi and A. Robin and D. Rouan and G. Simon and D. Tiphene and I. Vauglin and S. Wagner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0003177},
year = {2008}
}
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