GaBoDS: The Garching-Bonn Deep Survey V. Data release of the ESO Deep-Public-Survey

TL;DR

This paper presents the data release of the ESO Deep-Public-Survey, including 63 fully reduced optical images, enabling studies of high-redshift objects, weak lensing, and follow-up spectroscopy with VLT instruments.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive data set with calibrated images for the community, facilitating high-redshift universe research and weak lensing studies.

Findings

Public release of 63 calibrated images

Comparison with ESO Imaging Survey data shows quality consistency

Enables high-redshift object selection and weak lensing analysis

Abstract

Aims. In this paper the optical data of the ESO Deep-Public-Survey observed with the Wide Field Imager and reduced with the THELI pipeline are described. Methods. Here we present 63 fully reduced and stacked images. The astrometric and photometric calibrations are discussed and the properties of the images are compared to images released by the ESO Imaging Survey team covering a subset of our data. Results. These images are publicly released to the community. Our main scientific goals with this survey are to study the high-redshift universe by optically pre-selecting high-redshift objects from imaging data and to use VLT instruments for follow-up spectroscopy as well as weak lensing applications.