CFHTLenS: the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey - imaging data and catalogue products
2013
We present data products from the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS). CFHTLenS is based on the Wide component of the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS). It encompasses 154 deg^2 of deep, optical, high-quality, sub-arcsecond imaging data in the five
optical filtersu*g′r′i′z′. The scientific aims of the CFHTLenS team are
weak gravitational lensingstudies supported by
photometric redshiftestimates for the galaxies. This paper presents our data processing of the complete CFHTLenS data set. We were able to obtain a data set with very good image quality and high-quality astrometric and photometric calibration. Our external astrometric accuracy is between 60 and 70 mas with respect to Sloan
Digital Sky Survey(SDSS) data, and the internal alignment in all filters is around 30 mas. Our average photometric calibration shows a dispersion of the order of 0.01–0.03 mag for g′r′i′z′ and about 0.04 mag for u* with respect to SDSS sources down to i_(SDSS) ≤ 21. We demonstrate in accompanying papers that our data meet necessary requirements to fully exploit the survey for
weak gravitational lensinganalyses in connection with
photometric redshiftstudies. In the spirit of the CFHTLS, all our data products are released to the astronomical community via the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre at http://www.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/community/CFHTLens/query.html. We give a description and how-to manuals of the public products which include image pixel data, source catalogues with
photometric redshiftestimates and all relevant quantities to perform weak lensing studies.
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