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The Subaru Seminar is
usually held in Room 104 of the Hilo Base Facility, adjacent
to the main lobby. Everyone is welcome to attend. If you are
interested in giving a seminar, please contact Subaru
seminar organizers (Tomonori Usuda, Kumiko S. Usuda, Masahiko Hayashi, Masayuki Akiyama)
by email.
December 5, Monday from 2:00pm to 3:00pm
" The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey "
Andy Lawrence (Edinburgh, U.K.)
The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) is a seven
year programme to produce a legacy IR sky atlas, using UKIRT's new
Wide Field Camera (WFCAM). It covers many thousand square degrees
overall, but is actually a portfolio of five inter-related surveys
ranging from shallow (K~19) through deep (K~21) to ultra deep (K~23)
surveys, at both high and low galactic latitudes. As well as
producing a multi-purpose resource of long lasting value, UKIDSS
specifically aims to find the most distant known quasars and the
nearest substellar objects; to determine the stellar mass function
and its dependence on environment; to determine the epoch of
spheroid formation; and to map the Galactic Plane. UKIDSS data are
being uniformly processed and made publicly available through a
fully queryable web system - the WFCAM Science Archive (WSA). UKIDSS
began operations in May 2005, and will issue an early data release
on January 31st 2006. I will summarise performance and prospects so
far, and illustrate the use of the WSA.
Seminars are also held at JAC,
CFHT,
and IfA.
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