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EDP Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, 2(144), p. 235-245

DOI: 10.1051/aas:2000210

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The DENIS Point Source Catalogue towards the Magellanic Clouds

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Abstract

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. [CITE]). The catalogue covers an area of of $19.87\times 16$ square degrees centered on $(α,δ)=(5^{\rm h}27^{\rm m}20^{\rm s}$,$-69\degr00\arcmin00\arcsec)$ for the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and $14.7\times 10$ square degrees centered on $(α,δ)=(1^{\rm h}02^{\rm m}40^{\rm s}$,$-73\degr00\arcmin00\arcsec)$ for the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) at the epoch J2000. It contains about $1\,300\,000$ sources towards the LMC and $300\,000$ sources towards the SMC each detected in at least 2 of the 3 photometric bands involved in the survey ($I$, $J$, $K_{\rm s}$). $70\%$ 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.