urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:eso-la_silla.1m04.denis 1.0 1.16.0.0 Product_Context urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:eso.photometric1m.denis 2021-12-07 1.0 per RMS, deprecated eso in favor of eso-la_silla urn:nasa:pds:context:telescope:eso-la_silla.1m04 instrument_to_telescope Epchtein, N., DENIS: A deep near infrared southern sky survey, from New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys, B.J. McLean et al. (eds.) (printed in the Netherlands), 106-108, 1997. DENIS 3-Channel Near-Infrared Camera Imager The DENIS (Deep European Near-Infrared southern sky Survey) instrument is made up of a 3-channel camera built of commercially available detector arrays by the Observatoire de Paris and with major contributions from other European Institutes, notably: the IAS in Frascati, the Observatoire de Grenoble, the University of Innsbruck, the Observatoire de Lyon, and the IAC in Tenerife. The instrument was used for the DENIS survey at the ESO 1.0 meter telescope at La Silla, Chile. Instrument characteristics: I J Ks Central wavelength (microns) 0.8 1.25 2.15 Array manufacturer Tektronix Rockwell Rockwell Size in pixels 1024x1024 256x256 256x256 Pixel size (microns) 24 40 40 Pixel size (arcsec) 1 3 3 Average array quantum efficiency 0.65 0.81 0.61 Read-out noise (e-) 6.7 38 39 Read-out time (sec) 2.98 0.13 0.13 Exposure time (sec) 9 10 10 Achieved limiting magnitude (point source, 3 sigma) 18.5 16.5 14 Magnitude of saturation 9.5 8.5 6.5 For more information about the DENIS instrument see Epchtein 1997. Epchtein, N., DENIS: A deep near infrared southern sky survey, from New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys, B.J. McLean et al. (eds.) (printed in the Netherlands), 106-108, 1997.