KiDS DR5 data access
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 and THELI processing systems, aided by additional software for source detection (KIDSCAT/SExtractor), masking (Pulecenella) and photo-z derivation (BPZ).
Subsequently, the data have been exported 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 (i.e. FITS headers).
ESO Science Archive
The science products (calibrated, stacked images, single-band source lists, and catalogs) stored in the ESO Science Archive can be easily accessed through the interfaces listed below.
→ Images: Science Portal | Programmatic Access
→ Catalogs: Science Portal | Programmatic Access | Catalog Interface*
* The KiDS DR5 catalog is listed as catalog version 5.
Astro-WISE
The calibrated, stacked ugri images, weight frames, optical masks and the single-band source lists can be easily accessed through the DBviewer, the main data query tool in Astro-WISE. It provides access to the data products and their metadata. The latter includes data lineage, i.e., the tree of data products and process configurations that went into creating it. Below we provide links to the DBviewer result pages of queries for these KiDS-ESO-DR5 data products. These result pages list the available data products with columns providing different types of information, including links to Quality-WISE (provides inspection plots and quality info), links to data lineage information ("object view") and links to the FITS files.
Batch download
Batch download of the ugri Coadds, weight frames, single-band masks, single-band source lists and the (THELI-reduced)
r-band detection images, in the same format
as available via the ESO Science archive (but stored on the Astro-WISE data servers), is possible using wget.
Download scripts using wget are linked below.