The UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey
Abstract
The UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey (GPS) is one of the five near infrared Public Legacy Surveys that are being undertaken by the UKIDSS consortium, using the Wide Field Camera on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope. It is surveying 1868 sq.deg. of the northern and equatorial Galactic plane at Galactic latitudes -5<b<5 in the J, H and K filters and a ~200 sq.deg. area of the Taurus-Auriga-Perseus molecular cloud complex in these three filters and the 2.12 um (1-0) H_2 filter. It will provide data on ~2 billion sources. Here we describe the properties of the dataset and provide a user's guide for its exploitation. We also present brief Demonstration Science results from DR2 and from the Science Verification programme. These results illustrate how GPS data will frequently be combined with data taken in other wavebands to produce scientific results. The Demonstration Science includes studies of: (i) the star formation region G28.983-0.603, cross matching with Spitzer-GLIMPSE data to identify YSOs; (ii) the M17 nebula; (iii) H_2 emission in the rho Ophiuchi dark cloud; (iv) X-ray sources in the Galactic Centre; (v) external galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance; (vi) IPHAS-GPS optical-infrared spectrophotometric typing. (abridged).
Cite
@article{arxiv.0712.0100,
title = {The UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey},
author = {P. W. Lucas and M. G. Hoare and A. Longmore and A. C. Schroder and C. J. Davis and A. Adamson and R. M. Bandyopadhyay and R. de Grijs and M. Smith and A. Gosling and S. Mitchison and A. Gaspar and M. Coe and M. Tamura and Q. Parker and M. Irwin and N. Hambly and J. Bryant and R. S. Collins and N. Cross and D. W. Evans and E. Gonzalez-Solares and S. Hodgkin and J. Lewis and M. Read and M. Riello and E. T. W. Sutorius and A. Lawrence and J. E. Drew and S. Dye and M. A. Thompson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.0100},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Accepted by MNRAS, 31 pages. Version 3 has significant edits