The AXIS Survey History Page

October 1999  - Following the "Science with the WFI" Workshop at the RSAA, the WFI Survey Working Group developed a draft science case and a draft observing program for a significant survey programme on the AAT. Interested parties were invited to contributed suggestions and comments, and to register their interest in joining the WFI Survey Team. Please see the Call for Expressions of Interest, and register/comment using the Registration Form before January 15, 2000.

January 2000 - Expressions of Interest continued to be sought

March 2000 - Based on the input provided, the WFI Survey Working Group  has developed a revised draft proposal, which was distributed to interested parties on March 21. It is intended that this proposal (after further revision) will be submitted to both PATT (by March 31) and ATAC (by April 15).

Important changes since the preliminary draft proposal have been the concentration of the survey on science areas where the AAT has strengths - moderate depth, wide area multi-colour, time sampled imaging. In particular, the "Deep 2dF Field" was clearly not scientifically competitive, and is no longer included in the survey. A copy of the draft proposal in TeX or Postscript can be obtained. Further drafts will be issued on a regular basis.

March 28, 2000 - Based on the recommendation of Matthew Colless (hereafter to be known as Dr "Acronym"), the survey proposal has been given a new name - AXIS, The Aanglo-Australian eXtensive Imaging Survey. I hope you'll agree this sounds nicer than the interim WFMCS one!

On to more important things. I'd like to thank everyone for their input. Much of it was very pointed which is what I needed. The proposal has been significantly revised, based on this input. We've also identified a location and a person to oversee data processing. The Astrophysics and Supercomputing Centre at Swinburn University has the necessary resources, and Brad Gibson (to start as faculty there in September) has agreed to oversee processing.

However, the draft is still too long. I need each person who deals with one of the scientific areas to send me a version shortened by at least 2-3 lines as soon as possible.

If you wish to be a team member, and your name does not appear on the first page, then e-mail me as soon as you can.


Feebdack MUST be sent to the WFI Survey Working Group Chairs  by COB Australian time March 30, since both proposals must be ready in time for the earliest (PATT) March 31 deadline.
 
 

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