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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
The UKIRT infrared deep sky survey early data release
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 372, No. 3, Year 2006
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This paper defines the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Early Data Release (EDR). UKIDSS is a set of five large near-infrared surveys being undertaken with the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Wide Field Camera (WFCAM). The programme began in 2005 May and has an expected duration of 7 yr. Each survey uses some or all of the broad-band filter complement ZYJHK. The EDR is the first public release of data to the European Southern Observatory (ESO) community. All worldwide releases occur after a delay of 18 months from the ESO release. The EDR provides a small sample data set, ∼50 deg2 (about 1 per cent of the whole of UKIDSS), that is a lower limit to the expected quality of future survey data releases. In addition, an EDR+ data set contains all EDR data plus extra data of similar quality, but for areas not observed in all of the required filters (amounting to ∼220 deg2). The first large data release, DR1, will occur in mid-2006. We provide details of the observational implementation, the data reduction, the astrometric and photometric calibration and the quality control procedures. We summarize the data coverage and quality (seeing, ellipticity, photometricity, depth) for each survey and give a brief guide to accessing the images and catalogues from the WFCAM Science Archive. © 2006 RAS.
Authors & Co-Authors
Dye, S.
United Kingdom, Cardiff
Cardiff University
Warren, Stephen J.
United Kingdom, London
Imperial College London
Hambly, Nigel C.
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Royal Observatory
Cross, Nicholas J.G.
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Royal Observatory
Hodgkin, Simon T.
United Kingdom, Cambridge
Institute of Astronomy
Irwin, Michael J.
United Kingdom, Cambridge
Institute of Astronomy
Andy R. Lawrence, Andy R.
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Royal Observatory
Adamson, Andrew J.
United States, Honolulu
University Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
Almaini, Omar
United Kingdom, Nottingham
University of Nottingham
Edge, Alastair C.
United Kingdom, Durham
Durham University
Hirst, Paul
United States, Honolulu
University Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
Lucas, Philip W.
United Kingdom, Hatfield
University of Hertfordshire
Collins, Ross S.
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Royal Observatory
Dalton, Gavin B.
United Kingdom, Oxford
Denys Wilkinson Building
Davies, Jonathan I.
United Kingdom, Cardiff
Cardiff University
Davis, Christopher J.
United States, Honolulu
University Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
Emerson, James P.
United Kingdom, London
University of London
Evans, Dafydd Wyn
United Kingdom, Cambridge
Institute of Astronomy
Foucaud, Sébastien
United Kingdom, Nottingham
University of Nottingham
Gonzáles-Solares, Eduardo A.
United Kingdom, Cambridge
Institute of Astronomy
Hewett, Paul C.
United Kingdom, Cambridge
Institute of Astronomy
Kerr, Thomas H.
United States, Honolulu
University Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
Lodieu, Nicolas
United Kingdom, Leicester
University of Leicester
Loveday, Jon N.
United Kingdom, Brighton
University of Sussex
Lewis, James R.
United Kingdom, Cambridge
Institute of Astronomy
Robert Mann, Robert G.
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Royal Observatory
McMahon, R. G.
United Kingdom, Cambridge
Institute of Astronomy
Mortlock, Daniel J.
United Kingdom, London
Imperial College London
Nakajima, Yasushi
Japan, Mitaka
National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Rawlings, Mark G.
United States, Honolulu
University Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
Read, Michael A.
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Royal Observatory
Riello, Marco
United Kingdom, Cambridge
Institute of Astronomy
Sekiguchi, Kazuhiro
Japan, Mitaka
National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Smith, Anthony J.
United Kingdom, Brighton
University of Sussex
Sutorius, Eckhard T.W.
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Royal Observatory
Varricatt, Watson P.
United States, Honolulu
University Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
Walton, Nicholas A.
United Kingdom, Cambridge
Institute of Astronomy
Statistics
Citations: 179
Authors: 37
Affiliations: 14
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10928.x
ISSN:
00358711
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Quantitative