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II/228A    DENIS Catalogue toward Magellanic Clouds (DCMC)     (Cioni+ 2000)
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The DENIS Point Source Catalogue towards the Magellanic Clouds
    Cioni M.-R., Loup C., Habing H.J., Fouque P., Bertin E., Deul E.,
    Egret D., Alard C., de  Batz B., Borsenberger J., Dennefeld M.,
    Epchtein N., Forveille T., Garzon F., Hron J., Kimeswenger S.,
    Lacombe F., Le  Bertre T., Mamon G.A., Omont A., Paturel G., Persi P.,
    Robin A., Rouan D., Simon G., Tiphene D., Vauglin I., Wagner S.
   <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser., 144, 235 (2000)>
   =2000A&AS..144..235C
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ADC_Keywords: Photometry, infrared ; Surveys ; Magellanic Clouds
Keywords: Catalogs - Surveys - Galaxies: Magellanic Clouds -
          Galaxies: photometry - Galaxies: stellar content - Infrared: stars

Description:
    This is the first version of a complete near-IR point source catalogue
    towards the Magellanic Clouds extracted from the data obtained with
    the DEep Near Infraread Survey of the Southern Sky (DENIS). The
    catalogue covers an area of 19.87x16 square degrees centered on
    (05:27:20-69:00:00) for the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and 14.7x10
    square degrees centered on (01:02:40-73:00:00) for the Small
    Magellanic Cloud (SMC). It contains the sources detected in at least 2
    of the 3 photometric bands I (Gunn-i centered at 0.8{mu}m), J
    (centered at 1.25{mu}m), and K_s_ (centered at 2.15{mu}m). The spatial
    resolution is 1" in I and 3" in the J and K bands, and the limiting
    magnitudes are I=18, J=16 and K_s_=14. 70% of the detected sources are
    real members of the Magellanic Clouds, and consist mainly of red
    giants, asymptotic giant branch stars and supergiants.


File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records   Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .   This file
lmc_ijk.dat    210     264347   LMC stars observed in the 3 bands I, J and K (1)
lmc_ij.dat     210    1045630   LMC stars observed in I and J bands (1)
lmc_ik.dat     210       8234   LMC stars observed in I and K bands (1)
lmc_jk.dat     210       1689   LMC stars observed in J and K bands (1)
smc_ijk.dat    210      69829   SMC stars observed in the 3 bands I, J and K (1)
smc_ij.dat     210     242837   SMC stars observed in I and J bands (1)
smc_ik.dat     210       2302   SMC stars observed in I and K bands (1)
smc_jk.dat     210        812   SMC stars observed in J and K bands (1)
qual.dat        68        187   Qualities of observation strips (table 8)
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Note (1): table 7 of the paper
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See also:
    http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/denis.html : the DENIS home page
    B/denis : The DENIS database (Epchtein+, 1999)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: lmc*.dat smc*.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  4  A4    ---     ---       [DCMC] Catalog Acronym
   6- 24  A19   ---     DCMC      Name of the source (based on J2000 position)
  27- 28  I2    h       RAh       Right Ascension J2000 (hours)
      29  A1    ---     ---       [:]
  30- 31  I2    min     RAm       Right Ascension J2000 (minutes)
      32  A1    ---     ---       [:]
  33- 37  F5.2  s       RAs       Right Ascension J2000 (seconds)
      39  A1    ---     DE-       Declination J2000 (sign)
  40- 41  I2    deg     DEd       Declination J2000 (degrees)
      42  A1    ---     ---       [:]
  43- 44  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination J2000 (minutes)
      45  A1    ---     ---       [:]
  46- 49  F4.1  arcsec  DEs       Declination J2000 (seconds)
  51- 54  F4.2  arcsec  PosErr    Systematic positional error
  56- 62  F7.3  pix     Ixpos     Object position along x-axis in I image
  64- 70  F7.3  pix     Iypos     Object position along y-axis in I image
  72- 74  I3    ---     Ifield    ?=999 Field number of I image
  76- 79  I4    ---     Istrip    ?=0 Strip number of I image (in field Ifield)
  81- 86  F6.3  mag     Imag      ?=99.0 Magnitude derived within 7" diameter
  88- 93  F6.3  mag   e_Imag      ?=99.0 Mean error in Imag (1)
  95- 97  I3    ---   f_Imag      [0,7] Extraction flags (2)
  99-101  I3    ---   n_Imag      [0,63] Image flags in I band (3)
 103-109  F7.3  pix     Jxpos     Object position along x-axis in J image
 111-117  F7.3  pix     Jypos     Object position along y-axis in J image
 119-121  I3    ---     Jfield    ?=999 Field number of J image
 123-126  I4    ---     Jstrip    ?=0 Strip number of J image (in field Jfield)
 128-133  F6.3  mag     Jmag      ?=99.00 Magnitude derived within 7" diameter
 135-140  F6.3  mag   e_Jmag      ?=99.00 Mean error in Jmag (1)
 142-144  I3    ---   f_Jmag      [0,7] Extraction flags (2)
 146-148  I3    ---   n_Jmag      [0,127] Image flags in J band (3)
 150-156  F7.3  pix     Kxpos     Object position along x-axis in K image
 158-164  F7.3  pix     Kypos     Object position along y-axis in K image
 166-168  I3    ---     Kfield    ?=999 Field number of K image
 170-173  I4    ---     Kstrip    ?=0 Strip number of K image (in field Kfield)
 175-180  F6.3  mag     Kmag      ?=99.00 Magnitude derived within 7" diameter
 182-187  F6.3  mag   e_Kmag      ?=99.00 Mean error in Kmag (1)
 189-191  I3    ---   f_Kmag      [0,7] Extraction flags (2)
 193-195  I3    ---   n_Kmag      [0,127] Image flags in J band (3)
 198-202  F5.2  mag     Bmag      ?=99. Blue magnitude from USNO-A2.0 <I/252>
 206-210  F5.2  mag     Rmag      ?=99. Red  magnitude from USNO-A2.0 <I/252>
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Note (1): mean errors are derived from the photon statistics
    within the aperture

Note (2): the extractions flags are the summation of the following
    exclusive numbers:
    1 = Bright neighbours or bad pixels
        (more than 10  of the integrated area affected)
    2 = The object was originally blended with another
    4 = At least one pixel of the object is saturated
    Some of the very bright sources with the highest extraction flag values
    may suffer from large (>10arcsec) astrometric shift.

Note (3): the image flags are:
     1 = Regression failed for this pixel
     2 = Flat derived is less than 0.01 (dead pixels)
     3 = Abnormally high flat
     4 = Abnormally high residual after adjustment (5{sigma})
     5 = Bias more than 5{sigma} of mean
     6 = Flat more than 5{sigma} of mean
     9 = Insufficient number of pixels left after iterative clipping
    16 = Flat < 0.7 and/or flux < -200 ADU
    32 = Flat > 1.3 and/or flux > 49500 ADU
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: qual.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  4  I4    ---     Strip     Strip number
   6- 13  A8 "DD/MM/YY" Date      Date of observation
  18- 22  F5.2  mag     Izp       Zero point in I band
  24- 27  F4.2  mag   e_Izp       Standard error on Izp
  30- 34  F5.2  mag     Jzp       Zero point in J band
  36- 39  F4.2  mag   e_Jzp       Standard error on Jzp
  42- 46  F5.2  mag     Kzp       Zero point in K band
  48- 51  F4.2  mag   e_Kzp       Standard error on Kzp
  54- 68  A15   ---     Notes     Value of the photometric shift, and/or
                                   default zero point assumed when "ZP_Idef"
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Acknowledgements:
    It is a pleasure to thank Maria-Rosa Cioni <mrcioni@strw.leidenuniv.nl>
    and Cecile Loup <loup@iap.fr> who supplied the data in advance of
    publication.

History:
  * 11-Apr-2000: First release, which did not contain the magnitudes
    for the strips numbered 0 (concerns 9930 stars in file lmc_ijk.dat)
  * 20-Jun-2000: the strip numbers (Istrip, Jstrip and Kstrip) were set
    to 999 when unknown (instead of 0); the magnitude values for the
    strips numbered zero, previsouly set to 99.00, were re-entered 
    correctly in file lmc_ijk.dat.
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(End)                                    Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]   20-Jun-2000

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