VIDEO (under programme ID 179.A-2006, PI: Jarvis) is a deep near-infrared survey which targets ~12 square degrees over the ELAIS-S1, XMM-LSS, and E-CDFS extragalactic fields. VIDEO belongs to the suite of the first cycle Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) public surveys conducted at ESO and now completed.
Fifth and Final Data Release of the VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) Survey Now Available
Published: 04 Apr 2022
In this final release (VIDEO DR5) all individual stacked pawprints and tiles from Nov 2009 to Sep 2018 are released, as well as the corresponding single-band source lists. In addition, deep-stacked images in Z, Y, J, H, Ks filters are released. They are provided both as stacks of tiles (total of 8x5 images), and as one large mosaic for each field (3x5 images). Their corresponding aperture-matched source lists are also provided. The data also include a band-merged photometry source catalogue which contains i) 842,337 unique sources in the VIDEO-ES1 area, ii) 1,279,857 unique sources over the ~4.5 deg2 in the VIDEO-XMM area, and iii) 1,138,485 sources over the ~4.5 deg2 in the VIDEO-CDFS area.
The release consists of 1.8 TB of data, with images all (re-)processed using version 1.5 of the VISTA reduction pipeline provided by CASU.
More information is available in the accompanying release documentation. All data are publicly accessible from the Science Portal and programmatically. In addition, the catalogue can be queried via the Catalogue Facility or TAP.
The VIDEO science data products published in the final DR5.0 has been produced by the PI and his collaborators, including the Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (CASU) and the Wide-Field Astronomy Unit (WFAU).