Fig. 1.
Footprint of the post-masking KiDS-450 dataset. Top: distribution of the KiDS-450 fields on-sky, relative to the Ecliptic and Galactic planes. The Galactic plane is plotted with a width of 20°, which roughly traces the observed width of the Galaxy thick disk. Lower panels: each of the individually named KiDS-450 patches (on their own scale). The points in each patch show the distribution of KiDS-450 photometric sources that remain after applying the bright-star mask. Points are coloured according to their overall observational coverage: green points have full KiDS+VIKING optical and NIR coverage, blue points have full KiDS optical coverage but only partial VIKING NIR coverage, and orange points have KiDS optical coverage only. As such the green and blue data show the footprint of the full KiDS+VIKING-450 (KV450) sample.
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