Surveys

The University of Hertfordshire is a leader in survey astronomy at radio, submillimetre, near-infrared and optical wavelengths.

Among the major surveys of the past, present and future, there are primary ones in which we have significant involvement:

• VMC (ESO public survey of the Magellanic Clouds, PI Cioni)
• IPHAS (Hα survey of the Northern Galactic Plane, PI Drew)
• VPHAS+ survey (ESO public survey of the Southern Galactic plane, PI Drew)
• VVV and VVVX survey (ESO public time domain surveys of the southern Milky Way: co-PI
  Lucas)
• UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey (PI Lucas)
• H-ATLAS and HERMES wide/deep extragalactic surveys with Herschel
• MSSS (LOFAR shallow all-sky survey)
• Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)
• LOFAR Surveys KSP (LOFAR deep/wide surveys)
• e-MERLIN Jets Legacy project (co-PI Hardcastle)
• WEAVE-LOFAR (team lead Smith)
• SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy survey (S2CLS)
• SCUBA-2 Large eXtragalactic Survey (S2LXS, co-PI Geach)
• mJy Imaging VLBA Exploration (mJIVE-20) survey
• HST Wide Field Camera 3 Early-Release Science programme
• Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS)
• Evolutionary Map of the Universe survey with ASKAP
• MeerGAL survey of the Galactic plane with MeerKAT (co-PI Thompson)
• MIGHTEE extragalactic survey with MeerKAT
• VIDEO VISTA survey

The science focus of the surveys we lead range from searches for exo-planets through comprehensive surveys of the Milky Way, out to an in-depth study of the Magellanic Clouds and beyond to high-redshift extragalactic work.