Description
We present J, H, and Ks photometry of the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) obtained at the CTIO/Blanco 4m telescope at Cerro Tololo with the Infrared Side Port Imager camera. From the observations we have assembled a catalog of about ~7800 sources distributed over an area of approximately 30'x40', the largest of any survey deeper than the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) in this region. The catalog provides absolute coordinates accurate to about 0.15-arcsec and 3{sigma} photometry in the 2MASS system down to J~=19.5mag, H~=18.0mag, Ks~=18.5mag, enough to detect planetary size objects 1Myr old under A_V_~=10mag of extinction at the distance of the Orion Nebula.
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