CFHTLS Mid-Term Review Documents

The following documents were prepared by the CFHTLS Steering Group and members of the CFHTLS communities. They were submitted to the SAC in March 2005 for the CFHTLS mid-term review (actually less than two years after the official start of the 5 years survey). The reports were sent by the SAC to external referees and the final combined product was discussed at the SAC meeting in May 2005. SAC made some recommendations which were then discussed by the CFHT board of directors. The final conclusions were announced in July 2005: consult the report here.

Now that all the major scientific results presented in these reports have been published, all the documents are made public (November 2005).


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1.1 Steering Group overview CFHTLS-Overview-SACreview2005.pdf
1.2.1 CFHTLS Operations: CFHT CFHTLS-CFHT-SACreview2005.pdf
1.2.2 CFHTLS Operations: Terapix CFHTLS-Terapix-SACreview2005.pdf
1.2.3 CFHTLS Operations: CADC CFHTLS-CADC-SACreview2005.pdf
2. Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) CFHTLS-SNLS-SACreview2005.pdf
3. Deep Survey CFHTLS-Deep-SACreview2005.pdf
4. Wide Survey CFHTLS-Wide-SACreview2005.pdf
5. Very Wide Survey CFHTLS-VeryWide-SACreview2005.pdf


Table of Contents

1. Steering Group overview & Survey Operation
1.1 Overview
1.2 CFHTLS operation
1.2.1 CFHT
1.2.2 Terapix
1.2.3 CADC
2. Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS)
2.1 Supernovae, the Accelerating Universe, and Dark Energy
2.2 SNLS -- The Supernova Legacy Survey
2.3 SNLS: From Detections to Cosmology
2.4 Current Status and First Results
2.5 SNLS -- Future Prospects and Planning
Appendix A -- Controlling SN Systematics with SNLS
Appendix B -- Observing Time Allocation
Appendix C -- SNLS Papers and Projects
Appendix D -- Photometric Calibration
Appendix E -- Image Quality Concerns
Appendix F -- From Raw Data to Spectroscopy
3. Deep Survey
3.1 Summary of the deep observations
3.2 High-z galaxies
3.3 Galaxy clustering
3.4 Deep stacks as benches
4. Wide Survey
4.1 Summary wide
4.2 Cosmic shear
4.3 Clusters
4.4 Stars
5. Very Wide Survey
5.1 CFHTLS-VW Overview
5.2 Science Goals
5.3 Survey Status
5.4 Science Exploitation
5.5 Future of the LS-VW
5.6 QSO review
Appendix A -- Details on the KBO project
Appendix B -- Details on the GRB program
Appendix C -- QUASARS
Appendix D -- Brown Dwarfs