First data of the VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations Survey in the VIDEO-CDFS field released

Published: 01 Apr 2014

VIDEO is a deep near-infrared survey which targets ~12 square degrees over the ELAIS-S1, XMMLSS, and CDFS extragalactic fields. VIDEO belongs to the suite of six public surveys being conducted at ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). This release (VIDEO-CDFS DR1) contains single-OB images in Z,H and Ks bands in the VIDEO-CDFS1 field along with the associated source lists taken between 06/12/2011 and 29/12/2011. The whole coverage over the full 4.5 square degrees of the CDFS field will be provided in future releases.

Images can be queried and downloaded from the ESO Science Archive Facility. The VIDEO-CDFS Data Release 1 is accompanied by a comprehensive description.