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UKIDSS is a seven year programme to carry out a deep IR survey. It is much deeper than 2MASS but does not cover the whole sky. Roughly, it covers 7000 square degrees to K=18, 35 square degrees to K=21, and 0.75 square degrees to K=23. (Vega magnitudes). There have been several data releases, the most recent of which was DR6, in October 2009. The key links are these :
- UKIDSS : Public information about the UKIDSS project
- WSA : Data access via the WFCAM Science Archive
- Lawrence et al 2007 : Survey definition paper
The key people are :
- Consortium PI : Andy Lawrence
- Consortium Survey Scientist : Steve Warren
- The Working Group Heads : Steve Warren (Large Area Survey); Alastair Edge (Deep Extragalactic Survey); Omar Almaini (Ultra Deep Survey); Phil Lucas (Galactic Plane Survey); Nigel Hambly (Galactic Clusters Survey); Paul Hewett (Calibration Working Group)
- UKIRT Survey Scientist : Luca Rizzi
- Over 100 consortium members : see this link
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