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UKIDSS: Surveying the Sky in the Near-IR

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Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics V

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The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) is observing about 7,000 square degrees of the northern sky in the near-IR. Summed together it is 12 times larger in effective volume than the 2MASS survey. The scientific aims of UKIDSS include the detection of the nearest and faintest substellar objects and brown dwarfs, probe the substellar initial mass function, detect clusters of galaxies at \( z \sim 2 \) and detect high redshift quasars at \( z \sim 6 - 7 \). We give here a short introduction to UKIDSS focusing mainly on the search for high-z quasars.

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  1. Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, UK

    E. A. González-Solares, B. P. Venemans, R. G. McMahon & P. C. Hewett

  2. Astrophysics Group, Imperial College London, Blackett Laboratory, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK

    S. J. Warren, D. J. Mortlock & M. Patel

  3. Cardiff University, School of Physics and Astronomy, Queens Buildings, The Parade, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, UK

    S. Dye

  4. Anglo-Australian Observatory, 296, Epping, NSW, 1710, Australia

    R. G. Sharp

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  1. Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Avda. de Los Castros s/n, Santander, 39005, Cantabria, Spain

    Jose M. Diego

  2. Depto. Física Moderna, Universidad de Cantabria, Avda. de Los Castros s/n, Santander, 39005, Cantabria, Spain

    Luis J. Goicoechea

  3. Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Avda. de Los Castros s/n, Santander, 39005, Cantabria, Spain

    J. Ignacio González-Serrano

  4. Depto. Astrofísica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, Madrid, 28040, Spain

    Javier Gorgas

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González-Solares, E.A. et al. (2010). UKIDSS: Surveying the Sky in the Near-IR. In: Diego, J., Goicoechea, L., González-Serrano, J., Gorgas, J. (eds) Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics V. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11250-8_10

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