Vol. 631
In section 14. Catalogs and data

GALACTICNUCLEUS: A high-angular-resolution JHKs imaging survey of the Galactic centre. II

The Galactic center (GC) is the galactic nucleus closest to us and the most complicated place of the Milky Way to study. It is a main target in astrophysics, but the extreme stellar densities (∼ 10^{5−7} pc−3) and the very high extinction are serious obstacles to the study of the structure and the stellar population of the GC. It requires an angular resolution of ~ 0.2” to characterize the GC stellar population, however, previous studies are limited in angular resolution to >0.6”. The authors had many nights of observations with HAWK-I at the ESO-VLT, and present an exquisite dataset, the GALACTICNUCLEUS catalog. The catalog is a near-infrared JHKs high-angular resolution (0.2”) survey of the nuclear bulge of the Milky Way.