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We provide an overview of the ESO public survey projects being carried out at the ESO survey telescopes, VISTA and VST, on the VLT instruments, UVES, FLAMES and VIMOS, and on the NTT, with SOFI and EFOSC, at the La Silla-Paranal Observatory. We outline the motivations behind these extensive projects, the policies and the facilities supporting these programmes. We illustrate how their data products are validated and published through the ESO Science Archive Facility, in order to make them accessible to the astronomical community. We conclude with an outlook on the future of public surveys at ESO.
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Arnaboldi, M. et al. (2016). Public Surveys at ESO. In: Napolitano, N., Longo, G., Marconi, M., Paolillo, M., Iodice, E. (eds) The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 42. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19330-4_3
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