From j.p.emerson@qmul.ac.uk Sun Oct 16 12:43:14 2005
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:47:08 +0100
From: Jim Emerson <j.p.emerson@qmul.ac.uk>
To: t.naylor@exeter.ac.uk, alastair.edge@durham.ac.uk, paj@astro.livjm.ac.uk,
     pwl@star.herts.ac.uk, steve.maddox@nottingham.ac.uk, wjs@roe.ac.uk,
     naw@ast.cam.ac.uk, s.j.warren@imperial.ac.uk
Cc: Jim Emerson <j.p.emerson@qmul.ac.uk>, Malcolm Stewart <jms@roe.ac.uk>,
     Mike Irwin <mike@ast.cam.ac.uk>, Peredur Williams <P.M.Williams@roe.ac.uk>,
     Nigel Hambly <n.hambly@roe.ac.uk>, Richard McMahon <rgm@ast.cam.ac.uk>,
     Andy Lawrence <A.Lawrence@roe.ac.uk>, Simon Dye <Simon.Dye@astro.cf.ac.uk>,
     Maureen Scott <Maureen.Scott@pparc.ac.uk>
Subject: VDUC Agenda and Papers

Here are the agenda and appaers for VDUC.
Please look at http://surveys.roe.ac.uk/ssa for a preview of the sort of
User Interface the WFCAM science archive will have, test drive it and feed
back comments to Nigel Hambly (see the attached email).
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Agenda for 1st meeting of VDFS Data Users Committee, May 07 2004
at Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge

Morning: Presentations in Hoyle Committee Meeting Room (11-13)
10.45 Coffee available
11.00-11.15 Welcome and Terms of Reference (paper 1).                 Naylor
11.15-11.35 Overview of VDFS goals and organisation. (oral)
Emerson
11.35-11.50 UKIDSS science requirements on VDFS (paper 2)             Warren
11.50-12.00 Consortium Science Verifier            (oral)             Dye
12.00-12.30 VDFS Pipeline (WFCAM versions)         (oral)             Irwin
12.30-13.00 VDFS Archive (WFCAM versions) and user Interface (oral)   Hambly
13.00-14.00 Buffet Lunch

Afternoon: Discussions in Observatory Meeting Room (14-16)
14.00-14.30 Further Discussion on WFCAM                               all
14.30-15.00 VISTA science requirements on VDFS  (paper 3)            Emerson
                                                               (vice
Sutherland)
15.00-15.30 Further Discussion on VISTA & VDFS                        all
15.30-16.00 Tea served by the Hoyle Committee Meeting Room.

Papers
1) VDUC Terms of Reference
2) WFCAM Science Requirements on VDFS
3) VISTA Science Requirements on VDFS (to follow)
4) SuperCOSMOS science arhive - test for WFCAM Science Archive user
Interface

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To the UKIDSS Consortium:

The Wide Field Astronomy Unit at the  Institute for Astronomy,
University of Edinburgh would like to announce the release of
the 4 Terabyte SuperCOSMOS Science Archive (SSA). The SSA
contains over a billion multi-colour, multi-epoch source
measurements based on SuperCOSMOS scans of the Schmidt sky
survey plates in the southern hemisphere. The SSA includes
the SDSS EDR and DR1 data releases, along with the all-sky
USNO-B and 2MASS final data release, all prejoined to the
SuperCOSMOS data. Flexible user interfaces have been set up to
enable simple querying or complex data mining of object
catalogue data. Comprehensive online documentation is also
available, including a science archive cookbook containing
worked examples of basic and advanced queries.

The SSA homepage is at:

                  http://surveys.roe.ac.uk/ssa

Nigel Hambly, Mike Read & Bob Mann
Wide Field Astronomy Unit
Institute for Astronomy
University of Edinburgh