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Description
This data release, from 2005 September, consists of 355,220,325 point sources detected by DENIS. The release contains 3662 strips, each of which is 30 degrees long in Declination and 12 arcmin wide in Right Ascension (with an overlap of 2 arcminutes between consecutive strips), and covers approximately 16,700 square degrees of the southern sky. The northernmost declination covered is ~+02d07m and the southernmost is ~-87d37m. Multiple detections of single point sources have been merged in image overlaps within individual strips, but sources can have multiple detections in overlapping strips. DENIS observations began at the end of 1995 and were completed on 09 September 2001.
The survey was conducted simultaneously in three bands: one optical band (Gunn-i at 0.82um, hereafter referred to as "I") and two near-infrared bands (J at 1.25um and Ks at 2.15um), with limiting magnitudes of 18.5 mag, 16.5 mag, and 14.0 mag and saturation magnitudes of 9.8 mag, 7.5 mag, and 6 mag at I, J, and Ks, respectively. Documentation at CDS states that the astrometric accuracy of a typical point source is better than 1 arcsec and photometric accuracy is better than 0.1 mag, although the range of SNR over which these apply is not specified. DENIS was conducted by a European consortium using the 1m telescope at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile.
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