Image courtesy of ESO
UltraVISTA is an Ultra Deep,
near-infrared survey with the new
VISTA surveys telescope of the European Southern Observatory
(ESO). Over the course of 5 years, UltraVISTA will repeatedly image the COSMOS field in 5 bands resulting in
three key surveys:
an ultra-deep broad-band (Y, J, H, Ks) survey (1408hr) covering 0.73 deg²
a deep broad-band (Y, J, H, Ks) survey (212hr) covering the full 1.5deg² field
a narrow-band (180hr) survey covering the same region as the ultra-deep broad-band survey.
NEW First data release (Feb 2012).
Click to see the colour composite of the full field and some image highlights.
Survey paper now on arXiv (1st May 2012).
Click to see the colour composite of the full field and some image highlights.
Survey paper now on arXiv (1st May 2012).