Jean Borsenberger, Bertrand DeBatz, Sebastien Derriere, Nicolas Epchtein, Gary Mamon, Alain Omont, Guy Simon  and the DENIS Consortium
DENIS: A SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE INFRARED SURVEY (Poster)

DENIS: A SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE INFRARED SURVEY

Jean Borsenberger, Bertrand DeBatz, Sebastien Derriere, Nicolas Epchtein, Gary Mamon, Alain Omont, Guy Simon  and the DENIS Consortium
GEPI, Observatoire de Paris
GEPI, Observatoire de Paris
Observatoire de Strasbourg
LUAN, Universite de Nice
Institut d'Astrophysique deParis
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
GEPI, Observatoire de Paris

The DENIS survey has mapped the southern sky in three wavebands: I (0.8 microns), J (1.2 microns) and Ks (2.1 microns). The main catalog, now available through ALADIN and VIZIER at CDS, and in ds9 (v4.0), covers 80 % of the southern sky and contains 350 million objects.

The main science includes the discovery of new populations (isolated brown dwarfs, a new class of L dwarfs), M dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood, galaxies behind the Milky Way, AGB/RGB and YSOs in the Galactic Plane (in association with the ISOGAL survey), the Galactic structure, extinction in the molecular clouds and the Galactic Plane and stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds.

In 2006 we plan a release with a larger sky coverage, a global photometric calibration and a blind extended source database.