Panoramic Deep Fields

The Panoramic Deep Fields are a deep multicolour survey of two ~ 25 ° fields at high galactic latitude. The survey images have been constructed by digitally stacking scans of UK Schmidt plates. Deep images (Bj ~23.5) with low contamination have been obtained by subtracting the background from the individual plates scans and using bad pixel rejection during the stacking. The size and depth of the fields allow the accurate statistical measurement of the environments and evolution of galaxies and AGN.The Panoramic Deep Fields catalogues for the SGP (B1950 00:53:00 -28:03:00) and F855 (B1950 10:40:00 00:00:00) fields are provided in ASCII format. The catalogues were generated using SExtractor run on the U, Bj, R and I images, matched and then photometrically calibrated using CCD photometry in the fields.The U, Bj, R and I images are provided in FITS format for the SGP and F855 fields.The production of the images and catalogues is described in Michael Brown's University of Melbourne PhD Thesis, The Panoarmic Deep Fields, 2000 (http://hdl.handle.net/11343/326309).