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Exploring the Universe via the Wide, Deep Near-infrared Imaging ESO Public Survey SHARKS
Helmut Dannerbauer, Aurelio Carnero, Nicholas Cross +1
The ESO Public Survey Southern H-ATLAS Regions Ks-band Survey (SHARKS) comprises 300 square degrees of deep imaging at 2.2 microns (the Ks band) with the VISTA InfraRed CAMera (VIR…
Faint Standards for ZYJHK from the UKIDSS and VISTA Surveys
S. K. Leggett, Nicholas J. G. Cross, Nigel C. Hambly
The currently defined "UKIRT Faint Standards" have JHK magnitudes between 10 and 15, with K_median=11.2. These stars will be too bright for the next generation of large telescopes.…
Gaia Data Release 2. Calibration and mitigation of electronic offset effects in the data
N. C. Hambly, M. Cropper, S. Boudreault +30
The European Space Agency Gaia satellite was launched into orbit around L2 in December 2013. This ambitious mission has strict requirements on residual systematic errors resulting…
Gaia data release 1, the photometric data
F. van Leeuwen, D. W. Evans, F. De Angeli +91
Context. This paper presents an overview of the photometric data that are part of the first Gaia data release. Aims. The principles of the processing and the main characteristics o…
Extinction Maps in the WFAU Archives
Nicholas Cross, Mike Read
A brief set of notes about the database design for 3D maps of dust extinction in the WFAU Archives, which support data from UKIRT-WFCAM, VISTA and VST. The notes also detail typica…
VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV): Halfway Status and Results
Maren Hempel, Dante Minniti, István Dékány +89
The VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) survey is one of six public ESO surveys, and is now in its 4th year of observing. Although far from being complete, the VVV survey has a…