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