GPS science verification pages

Supporting information for the UKIDSS GPS renewal case, October 2006.

New clusters in the Galactic Plane

View Figure 1.eps or Figure 1.tif from the renewal case.

The GPS/GLIMPSE view of a star formation region

View Figure 3.pdf or Figure 3.ps from the renewal case.

The Taurus-Auriga-Perseus molecular Hydrogen survey

View Figure 4.pdf or Figure 4.ps from the renewal case.

Galactic Structure - GLIMPSE-C01 image

View Figure 5.pdf or Figure 5.ps from the renewal case.

Galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance

View Figure 6.pdf or Figure 6.ps from the renewal case.

These pages contain all information relevant to science verification for the UKIDSS Galactic Plane survey.

The following regions were observed during GPS Science Verification:

(1) A 1 tile wide strip across the plane at Dec=-1.9 at JHK. Some of these data are in SV1, some in SV2. A sky offset field at b=20 was also done at the same time as some of these observations, see http://surveys.roe.ac.uk/wsa/pre/gps.html for a plot of data currently in the archive at ROE (i.e. SV1) . One tile was also repeated in non-photometric conditions on 15 May.

(2) The M17 star forming region at JHK. In SV1.

(3) The Rho Ophiuchus star forming region at JHK+H2. In SV2.

(4) Some sky fields near b=20, in SV2. This was done in order to help assess the stability of the non-uniform background from the sky and contamination of the field lens.

(5) The Lagoon Nebula (M8) was also done during April comissioning, though not as part of GPS SV. This star forming region may be useful to us.

Technical feedback from Mike Irwin on 27 July.

-- PhilipLucas - 09 Aug 2005

M17 data PSF photometry results

-- AndrasGaspar - 16 Aug 2005

Looking for galaxies

-- AnjaSchroeder - 15 Aug 2005