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Table of Contents

  1. Proposal
    1. The importance of surveys
    2. The UKIRT Wide Field Camera (WFCAM)
    3. The UKIDSS proposal and consortium
    4. The survey programme concept
    5. Key science goals
    6. Summary of the survey programme components
    7. Modelling the survey programme
    8. Implementation of the survey programme
  2. Large Area Survey
    1. Motivation
    2. Cool stars and brown dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood
    3. Galactic structure
    4. The local extragalactic universe
    5. Distant clusters of galaxies
    6. KX selected quasars
    7. The redshift seven barrier
    8. Technical requirements
    9. References
    10. Appendix: Selection of very high-redshift quasars 5.8<z<8
  3. Galactic Plane Survey
    1. Motivation
    2. Star formation
    3. The atlas and galactic structure
    4. Counterparts to X-ray and gamma-ray sources
    5. AGB stars/PPNe/PNe
    6. Brown dwarfs
    7. Technical requirements
    8. References
  4. Galactic Clusters Survey
    1. Motivation
    2. Our knowledge of the stellar mass function
    3. Testing substellar MF models
    4. Complementary data from other sources
    5. Technical requirements
    6. References
  5. Deep Extragalactic Survey
    1. Motivation
    2. Cosmology from the evolution of the galaxy cluster mass function
    3. The galaxy correlation function at z>1
    4. Multi-wavelength key areas
    5. Technical requirements
    6. References
  6. Ultra Deep Survey
    1. Motivation
    2. The formation epoch of massive ellipticals
    3. Additional scientific goals and the scientific legacy
    4. The ideal match with SCUBA-2
    5. The choice of field - the Subaru Deep Field
    6. Technical requirements
    7. References