Data access via ESO

The publicly released KiDS data products are stored in two archives: the ESO Science Archive and the Astro-WISE archive. The data products have been created using the Astro-WISE system aided by additional software for final cataloging (KIDSCAT) and masking (Pulecenella). Subsequently, the data have been exported to outside Astro-WISE to obtain the format requested by ESO.
It is important to realize there are some differences between the data files that can be retrieved via ESO and via Astro-WISE, but that these differences are only between the meta-data. The pixel data are identical between the data products available at ESO and via Astro-WISE!

The science products (calibrated, stacked images, single-band source lists, and catalogs) stored in the ESO Science Archive can be easily accessed through the Phase 3 query interface:

• ESO Phase 3 query interface: KiDS release 2