MegaCam: the new Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope wide-field imaging camera

By O. Boulade, X. Charlot, P. Abbon, S. Aune, P. Borgeaud, P. Carton, M. Carty, J. Da Costa, H. Deschamps, D. Desforge and 12 more. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2003

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Accurate photometric redshifts for the CFHT legacy survey calibrated using the VIMOS VLT deep survey (2006, background): “The combination of the high-throughput VIMOS wide-field spectrograph (Le Fèvre et al. 2003) and the MEGACAM survey camera at CFHT (Boulade et al. 2003) makes it possible to amass large, deep, highly uniform photometric and spectroscopic samples.”
PRIMUS: CONSTRAINTS ON STAR FORMATION QUENCHING AND GALAXY MERGING, AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE STELLAR MASS FUNCTION FROM z = 0–1 (2013, methodology): “…Survey (CARS; Erben et al. 2009).24 These catalogs are based on deep imaging obtained as part of the CFHTLS-Wide survey using the CFHT/Megacam camera (Boulade et al. 2003).25 The CARS mosaics reach a 5σ depth of 25.2, 25.3, 24.4, 24.7, and 23.2 mag in a 2′′ diameter aperture in u∗, g′, r′, i′,…”
The First Release COSMOS Optical and Near-IR Data and Catalog (2007, methodology): “…paper covers the processing of the data obtained with Suprime-Cam (Komiyama et al. 2003) on the Subaru 8.3m telescope, Megaprime (Aune et al. 2003; Boulade et al. 2003) on the Canada France Hawaii 3.6m Telescope (CFHT), Flamingos (Elston 1998) on the Kitt Peak National Observatory 4m (KPNO-4m),…”
Bayesian galaxy shape measurement for weak lensing surveys – III. Application to the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (2012, methodology): “(i) PSF modelling took account of spatial variation of the PSF and possible discontinuities between CCDs in the mosaic camera (MegaCam, Boulade et al. 2003, in the case of CFHTLenS).”
Rates and Properties of Type Ia Supernovae as a Function of Mass and Star Formation in Their Host Galaxies (2006, methodology): “SNLS exploits the square-degree Megacam camera (Boulade et al. 2003) on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) to conduct repeat g′r′i′z′ imaging of 4 low Galactic extinction fields (named D1 to D4, see Sullivan et al. 2006 for the field coordinates), imaged as part of the “deep” component of…”
A MegaCam Survey of Outer Halo Satellites. III. Photometric and Structural Parameters (2018, background): “CFHT-MegaCam is a wide-field imager composed of 36 CCD chips that cover roughly a 1×1 deg2 on the sky (Boulade et al. 2003).”
COSMOS PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS WITH 30-BANDS FOR 2-deg2 (2008, methodology): “Ultraviolet: Very deep u∗ band data were obtained at the 3.6m Canada-France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) using the Megacam camera (Boulade et al. 2003).”
THE RISE AND FALL OF PASSIVE DISK GALAXIES: MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION ALONG THE RED SEQUENCE REVEALED BY COSMOS (2009, methodology): “The catalog includes u∗- and i∗-band imaging from Mega-Prime (Aune et al. 2003; Boulade et al. 2003) and was cross-referenced with Ks-band observations (McCracken et al. 2010) from the Wide-field InfraRed Camera (WIRCAM, Puget et al. 2004), both of which are instruments on the Canada-France-Hawaii…”
The ATLAS3D project - XXIX. The new look of early-type galaxies and surrounding fields disclosed by extremely deep optical images (2014, background): “MegaCam (Boulade et al. 2003) is a wide-field imager, made of 36 CCDs and covering 1 square degree field of view.”
The All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS) Data Sets (2006, methodology): “This field (labelled “D3” by CFHTLS) has been observed for a total of 114 hr using the MegaCam imager on the 4 m Canada-FranceHawaii Telescope (CFHT; Boulade et al. 2003) from April 2003 to the present; a total integration time of 330 hr is planned by the end of the five-year survey.”
The dependence of Type Ia Supernovae luminosities on their host galaxies (2010, methodology): “This used optical imaging data taken as part of the deep component of the five-year CanadaFrance-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHT-LS) using the square-degree “MegaCam” camera (Boulade et al. 2003), located in the prime focus environment “MegaPrime” on the CFHT.”
THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY (NGVS). I. INTRODUCTION TO THE SURVEY (2012, methodology): “The instrument at the heart of the NGVS is MegaCam (Boulade et al. 2003), a wide-field optical imager mounted on MegaPrime, the newest prime focus of the 3.6 m CFHT.”
COSMOS2020: A Panchromatic View of the Universe to z ∼ 10 from Two Complementary Catalogs (2021, background): “CLAUDS is based on observations obtained with MegaPrime/ MegaCam, a joint project of CFHT and CEA/DAPNIA, at the CFHT which is operated by the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada, the Institut National des Science de l’Univers of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) of Franc”
PRIMUS: THE DEPENDENCE OF AGN ACCRETION ON HOST STELLAR MASS AND COLOR (2011, methodology): “In the XMMLSS field we construct observed SEDs based on the u∗g′r′i′z′ imaging from Megacam on the Canada-France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT: Boulade et al. 2003) obtained as part of the CFHTLS-Wide survey10; we use the photometric catalogs released by the CFHTLS Archive Research Survey (Erben et al.…”