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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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