NOAO > Observing Info > Approved Programs > 2009B-0329
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PI: Samuel Schmidt, University of California, Davis, sschmidt@physics.ucdavis.edu
Address: Physics Department, One Shields Ave, Davis, California 95616, USA
CoI: David Wittman, UC Davis
CoI: J Anthony Tyson, UC Davis
CoI: Ian DellAntonio, Brown University
CoI: Russell Ryan, UC Davis
CoI: Paul Thorman, University of New Mexico
CoI: Ami Choi, UC Davis
CoI: Begona Ascaso, UC Davis
CoI: William Dawson, UC Davis
Title: A Near Infrared View of DLS
Abstract:
Building on the already successful Deep Lens Survey (DLS), we
propose to image 5.5 square degrees of DLS fields F1 and F2 with
NEWFIRM. In five gray/bright nights we will reach depths of J=23.6 and
Ks=23.0(AB). The combination of deep optical and NIR data will improve
weak lensing mass maps through improved photometric redshifts, identify
cool dwarf stars to unprecedented distances extending into the Galactic
Halo, and study the high redshift universe with Lyman break galaxies,
high redshift radio galaxies, and quasars. The DLS is wider than any
survey of equivalent depth, and deeper than any survey of equivalent
width. With only five additional nights of NEWFIRM data we can leverage
the existing deep optical data to enable new science spanning local
Galactic structure to the most distant galaxies in the early universe.
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