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X-WR-CALNAME: IAC Talks: Open Astronomy Seminars
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CREATED:2010-03-22T00:00:00+00:00
X-WR-CALDESC: IAC Talks upcomming talks
SUMMARY:The ESO VISTA telescope and the VISTA Hemisphere Survey
DESCRIPTION:The ESO VISTA telescope and the VISTA Hemisphere Survey\nProf. 
 Richard McMahon\n\nSurvey operations with the  VISTA\ntelescope with it wi
 de field near IR camera started in Feb 2010, following a science verificat
 ion phase that started in Oct, 2009.  I will describe this new 4.2m wide f
 ield telescope and the ESO VISTA Public survey program. I will give detail
 s of all ESO six public surveys which will be used for a range of galactic
  and extragalactic science.  I am the PI of the largest, by area, VISTA su
 rvey, I will focus my talk on the VISTA Hemisphere Survey and I will show 
 how this survey will be used to find quasars in the Epoch of Reionization 
 at redshift greater than 7.\n\nThe VISTA Hemisphere Survey (VHS) has been 
 been awarded 300 clear nights on the 4.2m ESO VISTA telescopes.  VHS obser
 vations started i February, 2010 and the survey will take 5 years to compl
 ete. The VHS will cover the whole southern celestial hemisphere (dec 7.  I
 n my talk, I will describe the scientific motivation and methodology of th
 e search for quasars with z > 7.
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