The DENIS point source catalogue towards the magellanic clouds

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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. 1997). The catalogue covers an area of of 19.87 × 16 square degrees centered on (α, δ) = (5h27m20s,-69°00′00″) for the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and 14.7 × 10 square degrees centered on (α, δ) = (1h02m40s,-73°00′00″) for the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) at the epoch J2000. It contains about 1300000 sources towards the LMC and 300000 sources towards the SMC each detected in at least 2 of the 3 photometric bands involved in the survey (I, J, Ks). 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.

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Cioni, M. R., Loup, C., Habing, H. J., Fouqué, P., Bertin, E., Deul, E., … Wagner, S. (2000). The DENIS point source catalogue towards the magellanic clouds. Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, 144(2), 235–245. https://doi.org/10.1051/aas:2000210

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