UKIRT: Current Status and Future Plans Natonal Astronomy Meeting 20 th April 2009 Professor Gary Davis, Director.

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UKIRT: Current Status and Future Plans Natonal Astronomy Meeting 20 th April 2009 Professor Gary Davis, Director

NAM’09 20 th April 2009 The United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Vital Statistics: primary diameter 3.8m first light 1979 operates exclusively in the infrared Mauna Kea, Hawaii funded 100% by the UK member of OPTICON collaborations with Japan and CEOU (Korea)

NAM’09 20 th April 2009 UKIRT Operating Modes Cassegrain 25% Wide-Field 75% 0% 100%

NAM’09 20 th April 2009 Wide-Field Camera UFTI 1k x 1k 2.25 sq arcmin WFCAM 4 x 2k x 2k 745 sq arcmin

NAM’09 20 th April 2009 Wide-Field Camera UFTI H2 S(1) WFCAM J, H, H2 S(1) central portion of one tile

NAM’09 20 th April 2009 UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey ESO public survey >3 magnitudes deeper than 2MASS 7,500 square degrees 7 year programme, completion in 2012

NAM’09 20 th April 2009 UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey Science Goals: find the nearest and faintest sub-stellar objects break the z=7 quasar barrier determine the epoch of re-ionisation determine the substellar mass function discover Pop II brown dwarfs, if they exist construct a galaxy catalogue at z=1 as large as the SDSS catalogue measure the growth of structure and bias from z=3 to the present day determine the epoch of spheroid formation clarify the relationship between quasars, ULIRGs, and galaxy formation map the Milky Way through the dust, to several kpc increase the number of known Young Stellar Objects by an order of magnitude, including rare types such as FU Orionis stars

NAM’09 20 th April 2009 Brown Dwarfs ULAS J0034: 550–600K ULAS J1335: 500–550K Both 5–20 M Jup Leggett et al. 2009

NAM’09 20 th April 2009 Distant Galaxies First detection at z>6

NAM’09 20 th April 2009 UKIDSS Papers at this meeting 3BurninghamLASbrown dwarfs 3Steelesub-stellar companions 3-P03Bakerbrown dwarfs 3-P06Day-Jonessub-stellar companions 5ParishDXSgalaxy clustering 5PearceUDSspectroscopic redshifts 6Jacksongravitational lensing HGallawayGPSmethanol masers HLodieuGCSIMF HPergerGCSlow-mass objects NPatelLASquasar at z>6

NAM’09 20 th April 2009 Orion UKIRT helps reveal chaotic and overcrowded stellar nursery combined data from WFCAM, Spitzer and IRAM first complete census of H 2 flows across the entire Orion GMC Davis et al. 2009

NAM’09 20 th April 2009 UKIRT’s Long-Term Future Two directions being developed: extended and enhanced wide-field imaging  hemisphere-scale survey  potentially with polarimetry  potentially with 4k arrays planet detection  Earth-mass planets in habitable zones around parent stars  M dwarfs  extension of radial velocity technique into infrared UPF

NAM’09 20 th April 2009 UKIRT’s Long-Term Future UKIRT Planet Finder (UPF) high-stability, high-resolution echelle spectrograph in YJH wide range of astrophysical applications besides planet hunting 3yr to build it, cost c.£5M 5yr to do the science, 50% of the telescope time letter of intent endorsed by STFC full proposal now in preparation: decision by end 2009 led by Hugh Jones (Herts)

NAM’09 20 th April 2009 Announcement UKIRT: A British Success Story A workshop to celebrate UKIRT’s achievements over three decades, and to look forward to the future Royal Observatory Edinburgh 14–16 September 2009