articleAstronomy and AstrophysicsJul 5, 2012BRONZE OA

UltraVISTA: a new ultra-deep near-infrared survey in COSMOS

HJH. J. McCrackenBMB. Milvang-JensenJDJ. DunlopMFM. FranxJPJ. P. U. Fynbo

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris · +8 more institutions

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Abstract

In this paper we describe the first data release of the UltraVISTA near-infrared imaging survey of the COSMOS field. We summarise the key goals and design of the survey and provide a detailed description of our data reduction techniques. We provide stacked, sky-subtracted images in YJHKs and narrow-band filters constructed from data collected during the first year of UltraVISTA observations. Our stacked images reach 5σAB depths in an aperture of 2″ diameter of ~25 in Y and ~24 in JHKs bands and all have sub-arcsecond seeing. To this 5σ limit, our Ks catalogue contains 216 268 sources. We carry out a series of quality assessment tests on our images and catalogues, comparing our stacks with existing catalogues.…

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  • HJ
    H. J. McCrackenCorresponding

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, Sorbonne Université

  • BM
    B. Milvang-Jensen

    University of Copenhagen

  • JD
    J. Dunlop

    Royal Observatory, University of Edinburgh

  • MF
    M. Franx

    Leiden University

  • JP
    J. P. U. Fynbo

    University of Copenhagen

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  • Data reduction
  • Stars
  • Point (geometry)
  • Pixel
  • Galaxy
  • Aperture (computer memory)
  • Astrometry
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