Wednesday, 15th April at 2.00pm at the JAC
Andy Lawrence
Univ. Edinburgh
"The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) and the VO"
ABSTRACT:
UKIDSS is a suite of IR surveys being carried out using the
UKIRT Wide Field Camera, starting in 2005 and expected to complete
around 2011. Three wide area surveys cover the Galactic Plane and the
high latitude sky to K=18.5, totalling seven thousand square degrees,
with smaller deeper surveys reaching to K=23. These surveys are making
an impact on studies of high-z quasars, very cool brown dwarfs, galaxy
clustering, high redshift galaxy formation, and many other areas.
Data are immediately public to European astronomers and world-public
eighteen months later. Data are made available through a queryable
database system similar to that used by SDSS, but are also now
available through VO tools in conjunction with many other resources. I
will summarise the status of UKIDSS, show some science highlights, and
give a live demo of data access and VO tools.
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