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VICS82: The VISTA–CFHT Stripe 82 Near-infrared Survey

  • Authors: J. E. Geach, Y.-T. Lin, M. Makler, J.-P. Kneib, N. P. Ross, W.-H. Wang, B.-C. Hsieh, A. Leauthaud, K. Bundy, H. J. McCracken, J. Comparat, G. B. Caminha, P. Hudelot, L. Lin, L. Van Waerbeke, M. E. S. Pereira, and D. Mast

2017 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 231 7.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 7.

Completeness curves for VICS82, split by band and telescope. Completeness rates are determined by injecting model point sources into the data, scaled by 2″ aperture flux, and then attempting to recover them using the same source detection criteria as for the real catalog (Section 2.6). The dashed lines show the median signal-to-noise ratio of the 2″ aperture flux for injected sources, demonstrating that the 80% completeness level corresponds approximately to a 5σ detection; we take this as the formal survey point-source limit. Table 4 lists the completeness limits and 5σ magnitudes for each telescope and band.

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