Release notes and paper

Release notes

Together with the observations table on this website, the release notes of KiDS-ESO-DR4 form a self-consistent description of the data release, covering content, processing details, quality assessment, and file formats.

The release notes are a PDF file, and can either be viewed in the iframe below, or downloaded:
release-description-KiDS-ESO-DR4.1.pdf

Release paper

The release paper, Kuijken et al. (2019, A&A 625, A2), focuses on differences between the data processing of KiDS-ESO-DR4 and earlier releases, and also describes various aspects of the data quality in more detail than the release notes.

The paper (arXiv version) can be viewed in the iframe below, or accessed via
ADS.