Fifth and final data release of the VST-ATLAS Public Survey
The data released in DR5 are the final VLT Survey Telescope (VST) ATLAS stacked images and associated source lists taken from observations by VST from October 2017 to the end of the survey in January 2021 under ESO program ID 177.A-3011. These new data mainly comprise the ATLAS NGC extension at Dec<-20 deg. DR5 presents new and updated CASU (Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit) images and source lists and also a full re-release of multi-band catalogue data from the Wide Field Astronomy Unit (WFAU) at Edinburgh, representing the “best” data. Any other un-updated data is still available within DR4 and earlier releases. DR5 data also includes the final ATLAS global photometry calibration.
The fully reduced and stacked images, together with their associated weight maps, are available from the ESO Archive Science Portal or via the Table Access Protocol. The multi-band catalogue is available also via the ESO Archive Science Portal, the Programmatic Access service, or the Catalogue Facility.
The DOI assigned to the VST-ATLAS data collection is 10.18727/archive/66. and further details are available in the data release description.