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Purpose, membership, and structure of the UKIDSS consortium

The suggestion that WFCAM should be used for a set of ambitious public surveys was the idea of Andy Lawrence, who is the UKIDSS PI. In 2000 a call was made to the UK astronomical community for volunteers to form a consortium which would (i.) design a set of surveys, (ii.) prepare a request for telescope time for approval by the UKIRT Board, and (iii.) undertake the observing. The processed survey data will be made available to the ESO community immediately it enters the archive, and consortium members have no privileged data rights. The purpose of the consortium is to represent the survey interests of the ESO community, and to undertake the surveys on behalf of the community.

There are currently over 100 consortium members, mostly from the UK but including other ESO astronomers. A small number of Japanese astronomers have also been invited to join the consortium as part of a process of promoting scientific collaboration between Japanese and UK astronomers in joint exploitation of UKIRT and Subaru.

We welcome enquiries about the consortium, comments on strategy, correspondence on possible collaboration, or indeed on any other issue. In the first place please email Steve Warren. To email the entire consortium the address is ukidss at ic.ac.uk.

UKIDSS consortium working groups

Membership of the various consortium working groups is tablulated below. The table also provides the list of volunteers who will undertake the observations.

LAS
Kuenley Chiu
Scott Croom
Simon Dye
Nige Hambly
Paul Hewett
Richard Jameson (Head)
Jon Loveday
Phil Lucas
Richard McMahon
Bob Nichol
Paul O'Brien
Steve Phillipps
David Pinfield
Steve Warren
Nic Walton
GPS
Andy Adamson
Reba Bandyopadhyay
Malcolm Coe
Chris Davis
Richard de Grijs
Melvin Hoare
Andy Longmore
Phil Lucas (Head)
Quentin Parker
Anja Schroeder
Motohide Tamura
Munetaka Ueno
GCS
Jane Buckle
Giovanni Carraro
Mark Casali
Fraser Clarke
Richard de Grijs
Nige Hambly (Head)
Simon Hodgkin
Richard Jameson
Rob Jeffries
Phil Lucas
Mark McCaughrean
Motohide Tamura
DXS
Omar Almaini
Malcolm Bremer
Garret Cotter
Steve Eales
Alastair Edge (Head)
Timothy Garn
Meghan Gray
Paul Hirst
Rob Ivison
Laurence Jones
Seb Oliver
Steve Rawlings
Ian Smail
Aprajita Verma
Martin Ward
Toru Yamada
UDS
Omar Almaini (Head)
Malcolm Bremer
Andrea Cimatti
Chris Conselice
Garret Cotter
Gavin Dalton
Jim Dunlop
Steve Eales
Sebastien Foucaud
Marijn Franx
Paul Hirst
Rob Ivison
Steve Maddox
Paul O'Brien
Mat Page
Steve Rawlings
Kaz Sekiguchi
Steve Serjeant
Chris Simpson
Ian Smail
Mike Watson
Pipeline and archive
Jon Davies
Paul Hirst
Jon Loveday
Ryusuke Ogasawara
Steve Phillipps
Tadafumi Takata
Steve Warren (Head)
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Calibration
Andy Adamson
Mark Casali
Nick Cross
Nige Hambly
Tim Hawarden
Paul Hewett (Head)
Simon Hodgkin
Sandy Leggett
Steve Warren
Implementation
Omar Almaini
Paul Hirst
Steve Warren (Head)
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Observers
Omar Almaini
Reba Bandyopadhyay
Giovanni Carraro
Mark Casali
Chris Conselice
Garret Cotter
Scott Croom
Nick Cross
Gavin Dalton
Jon Davies
Chris Davis
Jim Dunlop
Steve Eales
Alastair Edge
Jim Emerson
Sebastien Foucaud

Eduardo Gonzales-Solares
Meghan Gray
Richard de Grijs
Nige Hambly
Paul Hewett
Paul Hirst
Melvin Hoare
Simon Hodgkin
Mike Irwin
Rob Ivison
Matt Jarvis
Rob Jeffries
Laurence Jones
Tim Kendall
Andy Lawrence


Jim Lewis
Andy Longmore
Jon Loveday
Phil Lucas
Stuart Lumsden
Bob Mann
Mark McCaughrean
Richard McMahon
Ross McLure
Estelle Moraux
Bob Nichol
Paul O'Brien
Seb Oliver
Mat Page
David Pinfield


Steve Rawlings
Marco Riello
Anja Schroeder
Marc Seigar
Kaz Sekiguchi
Rob Sharp
Chris Simpson
Ian Smail
Will Sutherland
Motohide Tamura
Thomas Targett
Munetaka Ueno
Aprajita Verma
Martin Ward
Steve Warren