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Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.
Volume 144, Number 2, June I 2000
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Page(s) | 235 - 245 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/aas:2000210 | |
Published online | 15 June 2000 |
The DENIS Point Source Catalogue towards the Magellanic Clouds *,**
1
Leiden Observatory, Postbus 9513, NL–2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS UPR 341, 98 bis Bd. Arago, F–75014 Paris, France
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European Southern Observatory, Casilla 19001, Santiago 19, Chile
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Observatoire de Paris, 5 place J. Janssen, F–92195 Meudon Cedex, France
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CDS, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, CNRS UMR 7550, 11 rue de l'Université, F–67000 Strasbourg, France
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Observatoire de Paris, 65 avenue de l'Observatoire, F–75014 Paris, France
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Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Département Fresnel, F–06304 Nice Cedex 04, France
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Observatoire de Grenoble, 414 rue de la Piscine, Domaine Universitaire de Saint Martin d'Hères, F-38041 Grenoble, France
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Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, E–38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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Institut für Astronomie der Universität Wien, Turkenschanzstrasse 17, A–1180 Wien, Austria
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Institut für Astrophysik, Innsbruck University, A–6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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CRAL–Observatoire de Lyon, F–69561 Saint–Genis Laval Cedex, France
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Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale, Area di Ricerca, Roma–Tor–Vergata I–00044, Italy
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Observatoire de Besançon, BP. 1615, F-25010 Besançon Cedex, France
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Landessternwarte Heidelberg, Königstuhl, D–69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Received:
6
December
1999
Accepted:
9
March
2000
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 square degrees centered on
,
for the
Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and
square degrees
centered on
,
for the
Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) at the epoch J2000.
It contains about
sources
towards the LMC and
sources towards the SMC each detected
in at least 2 of the 3 photometric bands involved in the survey (I,
J, Ks).
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.
Key words: catalogs / surveys / galaxies: magellanic clouds / galaxies: photometry / galaxies: stellar content / infrared: stars
© European Southern Observatory (ESO), 2000