Monday, 6th November 2006 at 3.30pm @ the JAC
Omar Almaini
University of Nottingham, U.K.
"First Results from the UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey"
ABSTRACT: I will outline progress with the UKIDSS Ultra-Deep
Survey (UDS) and present the first science results. The aim of the UDS
is to produce a deep, large-scale map of the high-redshift Universe (1
< z < 6), providing large samples with which to directly test
models for galaxy formation and evolution. The year-one data (DR1)
reach 5-sigma depths K=21.5, J=22.6 (Vega) over a contiguous 0.8 sq
degree field, based on 86 hours of observation. This is already the
deepest near-infrared survey ever conducted over such a large area,
and the first scientific results include the determination of the
K-band luminosity function to unprecedented accuracy, the first study
of the large-scale structure of Distant Red Galaxies and the discovery
of luminous lyman-break galaxies at z > 5 (detected just 1 billion years
after the Big Bang).
Further information can be found
here
References to first UDS papers:
Cirasuolo et al. 2006, MNRAS submitted
(
astro-ph/0609287 )
Foucaud et al., 2006, MNRAS submitted
(
astro-ph/0606386 )
Lane et al., 2006, MNRAS submitted
McLure et al., 2006, MNRAS, 372, 357
( ADS )
Simpson et al. 2006, MNRAS in press
(
astro-ph/0608428 )
van Breukelen et al. 2006, MNRAS in press
(
astro-ph/0608624 )
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