The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). I. Introduction to the survey
- Ferrarese, L.
- C\uf4t\ue9, P.
- Cuillandre, J.-C.
- Gwyn, S.D.J.
- Peng, E.W.
- MacArthur, L.A.
- Duc, P.-A.
- Boselli, A.
- Mei, S.
- Erben, T.
- McConnachie, A.W.
- Durrell, P.R.
- Christopher Mihos, J.
- Jord\ue1n, A.
- Lan\ue7on, A.
- Puzia, T.H.
- Emsellem, E.
- Balogh, M.L.
- Blakeslee, J.P.
- Van Waerbeke, L.
- Gavazzi, R.
- Vollmer, B.
- Kavelaars, J.J.
- Woods, D.
- Ball, N.M.
- Boissier, S.
- Courteau, S.
- Ferriere, E.
- Gavazzi, G.
- Hildebrandt, H.
- Hudelot, P.
- Huertas-Company, M.
- Liu, C.
- McLaughlin, D.
- Mellier, Y.
- Milkeraitis, M.
- Schade, D.
- Balkowski, C.
- Bournaud, F.
- Carlberg, R.G.
- Chapman, S.C.
- Hoekstra, H.
- Peng, C.
- Sawicki, M.
- Simard, L.
- Taylor, J.E.
- Brent Tully, R.
- Van Driel, W.
- Wilson, C.D.
- Burdullis, T.
- Mahoney, B.
- Manset, N.
DOIAbstract
The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) is a program that uses the 1 deg 2 MegaCam instrument on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to carry out a comprehensive optical imaging survey of the Virgo cluster, from its core to its virial radius - covering a total area of 104 deg 2 - in the u*griz bandpasses. Thanks to a dedicated data acquisition strategy and processing pipeline, the NGVS reaches a point-source depth of g 25.9 mag (10\u3c3) and a surface brightness limit of \u3bc g 29 mag arcsec -2 (2\u3c3 above the mean sky level), thus superseding all previous optical studies of this benchmark galaxy cluster. In this paper, we give an overview of the technical aspects of the survey, such as areal coverage, field placement, choice of f...
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