Science Details for VISTA
With its 4-metre primary mirror and 67 million pixel IR Camera, VISTA is expected to be the world’s leading facility for large-area sky surveys in the near infrared (and also in the visible, subject to funding for the visible camera).
The science programme for VISTA is now fixed. Details are available from the following VISTA site:
Consortium
“VISTA is supported by a grant from the UK Joint Infrastructure Fund through the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council to Queen Mary & Westfield College on behalf of the 18 University members of the VISTA Consortium of: Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, Queen's University of Belfast, The University of Birmingham, University of Cambridge, Cardiff University, University of Central Lancashire, University of Durham, The University of Edinburgh, University of Hertfordshire, Keele University, Leicester University, Liverpool John Moores University, University of Nottingham, University of Oxford, University of St Andrews, University of Southampton, University of Sussex, University College London.”
More information about VISTA is available from the links below, the VISTA website or by contacting PI Jim Emerson or Project Scientist Will Sutherland.