The DENIS Point Source Catalogue towards the Magellanic Clouds

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We have compiled the near infrared Point Source Catalogue (PSC) towards the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) extracted from the data obtained with the Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky – DENIS (Epchtein et al. 1997). The catalogue covers an area of of square degrees centered on , for the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and square degrees centered on , for the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) at the epoch J2000. It contains about sources towards the LMC and sources towards the SMC each detected in at least 2 of the 3 photometric bands involved in the survey (I, J, K s). of the detected sources are true members of the Magellanic Clouds, respectively and consist mainly of red giants, asymptotic giant branch stars and super-giants. The observations have all been made with the same instrument and the data have been calibrated and reduced uniformly. The catalogue provides a homogeneous set of photometric data.

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