The ESO Imaging Survey: Status Report and Preliminary Results

Details The ESO Imaging Survey: Status Report and Preliminary Results The ESO Imaging Survey: Status Report and Preliminary Results

1998-02-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9802322v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages Latex,mprocl.sty included, 2 Postscript figures, 4 jpg figures, to be published in the ESO Messenger

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The ESO Imaging Survey (EIS) presented in early issues of the Messenger, and with up-to-date information on the ongoing observations available on the Web (http://www.eso.org/eis), is a concerted effort by ESO and the Member State community to provide targets for the first year of operation of the VLT. It consists of two parts: a relatively wide-angle survey (EIS-WIDE) to cover four pre-selected patches of sky, 6 square degrees each, spread in right ascension to search for distant clusters and quasars and a deep, multicolor survey of four optical (SUSI-2) and two infrared (SOFI) covering the HST/Hubble Deep Field South (HDFS) and its flanking fields (EIS-DEEP). From the start, the main challenge has been to carry out a public survey in a limited amount of time requiring observations, software development and data reduction with the goal of distributing the survey data products before the call for proposal for the VLT. To cope with this one-year timetable, a novel type of collaboration between ESO and the community has been established which has allowed EIS to combine the scientific and technical expertise fo the community with in-house know-how and infrastructure. In spite of the adverse weather conditions in some of the earlier runs, EIS has already proved to be successful experiment achieving most of its scientific and technical goals, thereby laying the ground work for future imaging surveys.

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