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Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Sharing information… Christian Veillet

What are we? Who do we serve? What do we offer? What is going on? What do we cost? Is it worth it? Where do we go?

What are we? - A private Corporation (State of Hawaii) - A tripartite agreement C, F and H -50 people (including 8 astronomers) - An exemplary ménage à trois easy to reconfigure - A 3.6-m wide-field telescope on Mauna Kea

Who do we serve? - Canada, France and Hawaii - Taiwan (ASIAA) since 2002 – renewed up to 2010B - easily extended - Brazil (LNA) starting in 2009B - From 10 to 15 nights a year for each. - Europe through OPTICON, but…

What do we offer? - Three main instruments - MegaCam/MegaPrime (1degx1deg – 0.18”/pix) - WIRCam (20’x20’ – 0.3”/pix) - ESPaDOnS (spectropolarimeter – whole spectrum – 70,000) - Queue mode in service observing (a good idea) - Pre-processed data delivered to PIs - Still active in AO

What is going on? (1) - Just finished the observations for the CFHT Legacy Survey – an amazing success - Plenty of PI programs, some of them joined - Four new Large Programs going on [2008B- 2012B]

What is going on? (2) - The Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey (PAndAS) – PI McConnachie (MegaPrime, 226hrs) - The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) – PI: Ferrarese (MegaPrime - 770hrs) - Magnetic Protostars and Planets (MaPP) PI: Donati (ESPaDOnS, 690hrs) - Magnetism in Massive Stars (MiMeS) – PI: Wade (ESPaDOnS, 640hrs) - New call for 2010A?

What is going on? (3) - Moving to remote observing from the headquarters - Lower operation cost - Better monitoring of the observatory - Ready by the end of Toward full automation… A dream? -`Ohana & `OHANA-iki - Test bed for advancements in AO and LGS

What do we cost? Is it worth it? ~$7.3M/yr - How do we know if it is worth it? - SNLS cosmology paper(s) nights at CFHT + at least as many on 8/10-m telescopes FTEs over 5 years = ~$30M - They better be highly cited ;) - But data used for much more… Good! + grad student work + … - Metrics? Sure, but difficult to agree on them

Metrics – 1

Metrics - 2

Metrics – 3 highly cited papers from 2006

Metrics – 4 Impact over

Metrics – 4

Where do we go? Call for new instruments - SPIRou going into CoDR-PDR (2014) (very stable ESPaDOnS in the IR) - `IMAKA: A wide-field imager with GLAO correction (2015/16?) key challenges under study (optics, GLAO at the telescope, simulations) - Interest for - wide-field multi-object spectroscopy (MegaMOS) - High dynamics high resolution AO (FIRST) - wide-field FTS (SITELLE)

Where do we go? - Big pressure for u observations (PanSTARRS & HyperSuprimeCam, likely Dark Energy Survey too) - Improve MegaCam for u observations? - CFHT unique place for redevelopment on MaunaKea - A dedicated wide-field 8m for MOS? (depending on WFMOS) - … - INSU prospective this year - NRC Long Range Plan European Roadmap WG… - Part of the US network?

2009 A very special year… CFHT will celebrate… its 30 th Birthday!