Galaxies with the DENIS 2 Micron Survey: A Preliminary Report
arXiv:astro-ph/9511104 · doi:10.1007/978-3-540-49739-4_28
Abstract
The DENIS survey of the entire southern sky is beginning observations this year. It will return one million images, representing 4 Terabytes, among which nearly stars and up to one million galaxies. The main extragalactic applications of such a multi-band, digital, near-IR 2D survey are listed, and the importance and feasibility of a spectroscopic followup are discussed. First estimates of the capabilities for galaxy extraction are given, and illustrated with preliminary images of three very bright galaxies.
Contributed talk at ESO/MPA workshop (June 95) on "Spiral Galaxies in the Near-IR", ed. D. Minniti (Berlin: Springer Verlag) self-unpacking (uuencoded gzipped PostScript)