The UltraVISTA DR5 RC1 is being made available for testing by the UltraVISTA consortium. If no issues are found, this data will be made public worldwide through the ESO phase 3 portal before the end of the year. UltraVISTA is a deep survey of the COSMOS field using the VIRCAM camera on ESO’s VISTA telescope.… Read More »
We are inviting applicants for a postdoctoral position at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris to work with Clotilde Laigle and H.J.McCracken in close collaboration with Laure Ciesla and Olivier Ilbert (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille). The contract is supported by the IPI. Here is the AAS job register posting. More information Background: In the next decade,… Read More »
Today we publicly release COSMOS2020, a catalogue of almost a million sources with photometric redshifts and stellar masses in the COSMOS field. COSMOS2020 is described fully in this paper, which has been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. We are also providing a python notebook showing how to use the catalogues. Released around five… Read More »
By combining mid-infrared light with optical and near-infrared observations one can find the most distant objects in the Universe, right back to the start of cosmic time. That is because the expansion of the Universe causes the light emitted by receding objects to be shifted towards the red. For the most distant objects, only the… Read More »
The fourth data release of the UltraVISTA survey (UltraVISTA DR4) is now publicly available from ESO. Read about it at ESO.
The UltraVISTA DR4 RC2 is being made available for internal testing by the UltraVISTA consortium. If no issues are found this data will be made public worldwide through the ESO phase 3 portal in the coming months. UltraVISTA is a deep survey of the COSMOS field using the VIRCAM camera on ESO’s VISTA telescope. DR4… Read More »
The objective of this internship is to make a measurement of the cosmic magnification effect in prototype Euclid deep field data. Background ESA’s Euclid satellite aims to uncover the nature of dark matter and dark energy by precisely measuring shapes and positions of a billion galaxies taken with the wide-field VIS camera. Dark matter induces… Read More »
The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy survey, or CFHTLS, was a wide-field survey sky-survey carried out using the Megacam camera on CFHT. CFHTLS had two components: a “wide” and “deep” survey. The deep survey comprised four deep fields observed in ugriz bands and the wide survey was a shallower survey covering around 140 square degrees in five… Read More »
UltraVISTA is a deep near-infrared survey on the COSMOS field, and this article describes work underway at CALET to process the fourth UltraVISTA data release, DR4. DR4 is on-track to be publicly released world-wide at the end of 2018 via the ESO archive centre. Some background The UltraVISTA survey started in 2009 as one of… Read More »
This week (11-15 June 2018) we are attending the Euclid consortium meeting in Bonn. We will be explaining of course why the CALET project is important for a space-based observatories like Euclid!