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I present a history of the development and commissioning of the highly successful UKIRT wide-field camera, WFCAM, which has made huge advances in infrared surveys in terms of both depth, speed and quality.
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Casali, M., et al.: The UKIRT wide-field camera. Astron. Astrophys. 467, 777 (2007)
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I would like to firstly acknowledge the great work done by the engineers and technicians at the UKATC in making such a peculiar and challenging design a successful reality. Secondly, I would like to thank the staff at the Joint Astronomy Centre in Hawaii for doing all the hard work of final alignment, tweaking and adjustment of the instrument and software to achieve its current high observing efficiency. Thirdly, the staff of the Cambridge University Survey Unit and Edinburgh IfA widefield astronomy group deserve great praise for reducing the large amount of data and making it easily accessible to the public. Finally, I would like to thank our management and funding body at the time, PPARC, for being brave enough to fund such a risky instrument!
This article is dedicated to our old friend and colleague Tim Hawarden, who had a clever hand in the design of WFCAM and in so many other astronomical gizmos. His enthusiasm remains with us.
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Casali, M. (2013). The UKIRT Wide-Field Camera. In: Adamson, A., Davies, J., Robson, I. (eds) Thirty Years of Astronomical Discovery with UKIRT. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7432-2_8
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