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Deep Near Infrared Survey

of the Southern Sky, DENIS, DEN

Survey of the southern sky

Survey Period1996 - 2001
TelescopeESO 1-metre telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile
Target FieldSouthern sky
Area (sq deg)16,700
Point Source CountsFirst release (1998): 17 million
Second release (2003): 195 million
Third Release (2005): 355 million
02 05 29.700 -11 59 28.72
FoV: 3.49'
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An example from the hundreds of millions of infrared sources catalogued by the DENIS survey. This faint object is DENIS-P J020529.0−115925, a system of three brown dwarfs orbiting one another some 64 light years from the Sun in the constellation of Cetus. Imagery provided by Aladin sky atlas

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