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All CFHTLS Wide images: (mean CCD seeing)-(mean Megacam seeing)<br />

B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A B A<br />

Mean CCD seeing contrast with respect to mean MegaCam seeing<br />

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CFHT MegaCam CCD reference number<br />

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CFHT MegaCam CCD reference number<br />

Figure 27: PSF variations as a function of the position on MegaCam (CCD positions) and wavelength (filters), produced by the optical distortion of the MegaPrime<br />

wide field corrector. These statistics are based on 935 u ∗ , 978 g, 1669 r, 1064 i and 1177 z-band images (the 220 y-band images have been ignored here). The<br />

variations are estimated from the comparison between the mean seeing (FWHM) averaged over the MegaCam field of view and the mean seeing averaged over a<br />

CCD field of view. The statistics are computed over the 36 CCDs composing the mosaic. The CCDs are numbered using the CEA-CFHT CCD reference number laid<br />

out on the central figure. The left panel show the difference 〈FHWM〉CCD − 〈FHWM〉MegaCam expressed in arcseconds. The horizontal axis is the CEA-CFHT CCD<br />

reference number. One can see that for the CCDs at the edges of the detector, the differences never exceed 0.065", and the highest peak-to-peak amplitude is less than<br />

0.1". The right panel shows the seeing contrast |〈FHWM〉 CCD−〈FWHM〉MegaCam|<br />

〈FWHM〉MegaCam<br />

. The contrast is always lower than 10% and the highest peak-to-peak contrast amplitudes<br />

are always less than 15%. Overall, the range of seeing values over the MegaCam field of view is acceptable. However, at the extreme corners of MegaCam, the<br />

seeing difference with the mean value can be as large as 0.25". Only the most extreme positions have a large PSF degradation and images that no longer meet the<br />

specifications of the surveys. We discard these regions by adding extra polygons to the T0007 .reg files that mask the edges of all stacks. The fraction of the<br />

MegaCam field discarded is less than 3%.<br />

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