MegaCam Surveys Working Group
 

Answers to the call for ideas

(as received on September 1, 1999)

A first call for ideas has been issued for the C, F and H communities before the Summer 1999. You can find its text here.
The following ideas have been submitted:
 

Solar system
1. A Megacam ecliptic survey (JJ Kavelaars et al.)
2. Releve d'images au TCFH:  proposition pour l'observation d'objets de la ceinture de Kuiper (P. Rousselot et al.)
3. A systematic search for asteroids inside or on the earth's orbit with megaprime (C. Veillet et al)
4. MegaWISP:  A systematic search for moving objects in the MegaCam surveys (C. Veillet)

Star formation
1. A deep optical survey of the Taurus and Orion molecular clouds (C. Dougados et al)
2. Mass loss in star forming regions:  A complete census of jets and outflows around young stars (F. Menard et al.)

Galactic structure
1. Fonctions de luminosite stellaire, cinematique et histoire de la formation galactique (O. Bienayme)
2. Environmental effects on galactic and extragalactic stellar clusters (G. Bergond et al.)
3. Shallow multi-color survey of fields surrounding all intermediate and high-lattitude globular clusters (S. VanDenBergh)
4. A megaprime survey for structure in the halo of the galaxy (G.G. Fahlman)
5, Probing the deep halo (M. De Robertis)
6. Brown dwarf (BDs) and very low mass star (VLMS) (T. Forveille)
7. Brown dwarf luminosity functions in the solar neighbourhood and 2 nearby open clusters and The halo dark matter and the luminosity function of stars at the bottom of the halo and thick disk main sequences (M. Haywood)
8. Recherche de candidats a la matiere noire baryonique dans le halo (A. Robin)

Cosmology (SNe)
1. Detailed study of type Ia supernovae at z = 0.4-0.8 (R. Pain et al.)
2. MegaCam observations of high redshift supernovae (C. Pritchet)
3. Very distant lensed SNIa which will allow new constraints to be placed on cosmological models (R. Carlberg)
4. Wolf-Rayet stars in nearby galaxies:  Search for pre-supernovae (A. Moffat et al.)

Extra-Galactic
1. Probing the formation of galaxies with extragalactic globular clusters systems (D. Burgarella)
2. The Virgo cluster as a laboratory for galaxy evolution studies (P. Martin et al.)
3. Deep wide-field survey of the Virgo cluster (R. Wainscoat)
4. MegaCam observations of globular clusters in the core of the Virgo cluster (M. West)
5. Wide-field, multi-color (UBVRI) imaging survey of the Coma cluster of galaxies to a limiting magnitude R~25 (M. West, A. Mazure)
6. Testing weak-field gravity (M. McCall)
7. Low surface brightness galaxies (A. Bosma et al.)
8. Structure of disk galaxies (A. Bosma et al.)
9. Searching for primeval galaxies at z~2.5 and 5 (M. De Robertis)

Large Scale  Structures
1. An optical imaging programme for the XMM serendipitous x-ray sky survey (P. Guillot et al.)
2. Megacam survey of clusters of galaxies:  a detailed study of cluster history (A. Blanchard et al.)
3. Proposal for a combined MEGACAM/XMM/VIRMOS large scale structure survey (M. Pierre et al)
4. A MegaPrime survey:  Mapping the large scale structures and the evolution of galaxies on 100 deg2 (O. LeFevre)l
5. A MegaPrime ultra deep survey (O. LeFevre)
6. Proposal for a join MEGACAM/XMM/VIRMOS/ARCHEOPS survey on weak lensing (Y. Mellier et al.)
7. A cluster survey in weak lensing (J.G. Bartlett)
8. A deep, wide-field weak lensing survey with Megacam (N. Kaiser et al.)

Large Scope Survey (near IR)
1. A survey with 1um with Megacam (J.G. Cuby)