List of Figures

Location of the four Deep and four Wide CFHTLS fields on the sky.
MegaCam readout layout and CEA-CFHT CCD numbering convention used in this report
Flow chart of the Terapix data processing pipeline for T0007.
The youpi-QualityFITS grading interface.
SCAMP photometric rescaling diagnostic plots
SCAMP photometric rescaling diagnostic plots (cont’d)
CFHTLS T0007 absolute photometric calibration
Distribution of the Seeing of the L99 images and the CFHTLS Wide stacks
Growth curve of the PSF models in the L99 r-band images
10 Aperture correction dependence with image quality
11 PSF shape in excellent and average seeing images
12 PSF models in the four quadrants of a CFHTLS Wide stack
13 Transmission of SNLS filters
14 Flowchart of the calibration of the CFHTLS-Deep images
15 Automatic determination of the saturation level
16 Deep photometric calibration using SNLS standard stars
17 Flowchart of the calibration of the CFHTLS Wide stacks
18 Matching L99 and CFHTLS-Wide objects
19 Positions and geometry of the CFHTLS Wide fields.
20 Positions, identification and naming conventions of stacks in the CFHTLS Wide survey.
21 CFHTLS Wide pointings and dithering strategy.
22 W1 VIPERS-DDT field coverage.
23 Distribution of exposure times over the Wide fields.
24 Seeing FWHM mapped over the input i-band image 743065p.fits by QualityFITS-in
25 Distribution of the median seeing over the Wide tiles.
26 Maps of seeing (fwhm) in the cfhtls Wide.
27 PSF variations as a function of the position and wavelength on MegaCam exposures
28 Example completeness calculation for a W3 tile
29 Distribution of completeness for the Wide fields
30 Distribution of completeness
31 Completeness as a function of seeing
32 80% completeness limits maps in W1, W2, W3 and W4
33 Galaxy counts for the four Wide patches in all bands. The dotted red line corresponds to the 80% completeness for extended sources computed from the simulations. In r and i band counts are compared those in the VLT-VIRMOS deep field (?).
34 Analysis of the internal photometric errors in CFHTLS_W_g_020241-041200_T0007 using simulations.
35 Analysis of the internal photometric errors using stacks overlapping regions.
36 Distributions of photometric offsets, δm=u*,g,r,i∕y,z, between CFHTLS Wide and SDSS-DR8 for W1, W2, W3 and W4.
37 Maps of photometric offsets between CFHTLS Wide and SDSS-DR8.
38 Comparison of one CFHTLS field with the Pickles stellar library (lower panel) and the Basel 3.1 stellar library using [Fe/H]=-1.0 (upper panel).
39 Mean RA-DEC offsets between the CFHTLS W1 and the 2MASS catalogues
40 Mean RA-DEC offsets between the CFHTLS W2 and the 2MASS catalogues (see comments on the caption of Fig. 39ł::bel summaryCFHTLS-T0007 Executive Summary).
41 Mean RA-DEC offsets between the CFHTLS W3 and the 2MASS catalogues (see comments on the caption of Fig. 39ł::bel summaryCFHTLS-T0007 Executive Summary).
42 Mean RA-DEC offsets between the CFHTLS W4 and the 2MASS catalogues (see comments on the caption of Fig. 39ł::bel summaryCFHTLS-T0007 Executive Summary).
43 Comparison of the (u*-g)(g-r) and (g-r)(r-i) stellar color-color tracks of the four Deep Dk-85 fields.
44 Estimation of the internal photometric accuracy in Deep stacks.
45 Weightmap images of the D2 field.
46 Locations of u*-band pointings used to produced the D2-u* stack.
47 Galaxy counts for the deep, sigma-weighted stacks in all bands for each of the four fields. The dotted lines show the 80% completeness for galaxies described in Section 5.4ł::bel summaryCFHTLS-T0007 Executive Summary.
48 QFITS-out page of the W4 CFHTLS_W_i_222054+002300 stack.
49 QFITS-out page of the same field (cont’d).
50 QFITS-out page of the same field (cont’d).
51 CFHTLS all-sky previews from Aladin