The DENIS database : B/denis


Authors : DENIS consortium orcid (hide) et..al

VizieR DOI :
Bibcode : 2005yCat.2263....0D (ADS) (Simbad) (Objects) (hide)

CDS Keywords : Infrared sources; Photometry, infrared; Surveys
UAT : Infrared sources, Infrared photometry, Surveys

Observation (OC)

Records : 355,220,325 sources

Inserted into VizieR : 07-Jun-2003
Last modification : 12-Jun-2017

Third release of DENIS data (20 September 2005) (2005)

Keywords : infrared stars - Galaxy: stellar content - stars: low-mass, brown dwarfs - astronomical data bases: miscellaneous - surveys

Abstract:This catalogue is the latest incremental release of the DENIS project. It consists of a set of 355,220,325 point sources detected by the DENIS survey in 3662 strips (covering each 30 degrees in declination and 12 arcmin in right ascension). The data in this release cover approximately 16700 square degrees of the Southern sky. Multiple detections of single point sources have been merged in image overlaps within individual strips, but sources can have multiple detections in overlaping strips. DENIS is the only astronomical survey of the Southern sky made in two near-infrared bands (J at 1.25{mu}m, and K_s_ at 2.15{mu}m) and one ...(more)
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DENIS is the result of a joint effort involving human and financial contributions of several Institutes mostly located in Europe. It has been supported financially mainly by the French Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers, CNRS, and French Education Ministry, the European Southern Observatory, the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg, and the European Commission under networks of the SCIENCE and Human Capital and Mobility programs, the Landessternwarte, Heidelberg and Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris.

                
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