Bibcode
Cioni, M.-R.; Loup, C.; Habing, H. J.; Fouqué, P.; Bertin, E.; Deul, E.; Egret, D.; Alard, C.; de Batz, B.; Borsenberger, J.; Dennefeld, M.; Epchtein, N.; Forveille, T.; Garzón, F.; Hron, J.; Kimeswenger, S.; Lacombe, F.; Le Bertre, T.; Mamon, G. A.; Omont, A.; Paturel, G.; Persi, P.; Robin, A.; Rouan, D.; Simon, G.; Tiphène, D.; Vauglin, I.; Wagner, S.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement, v.144, p.235-245
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6
2000
Citations
118
Refereed citations
104
Description
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.
cite{ept1}). The catalogue covers an area of of 19.87x 16 square
degrees centered on (alpha ,delta
)=(5h27m20s,-69degr00 arcmin00 arcsec )
for the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and 14.7x 10 square degrees
centered on (alpha ,delta
)=(1h02m40s,-73degr00 arcmin00 arcsec )
for the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) at the epoch J2000. It contains
about 1 300 000 sources towards the LMC and 300 000 sources towards the
SMC each detected in at least 2 of the 3 photometric bands involved in
the survey (I, J, K_s). 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. The Denis Point Source Catalogue towards the
Magellanic clouds, data (Table 7) and quality (Table 8), are only
electronically available at CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr
(130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Abstract.html Based on
observations collected at the European Southern Observatory.