Important dates
- First announcement : December 2010
- Deadline for hotel bookings: asap
- Deadline for workshop registration: 25 April 2011
- Workshop: -
Purpose & Goals
This is the third yearly internal meeting of NGVS Collaboration. It follows meetings that took place in Paris (2009), Victoria (2010).
The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey is a Large Programme with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), that by the end of 2012 will have used approximately 140 nights to image the Virgo Galaxy Cluster from its core to its virial radius in five filters (u,g,r,i,z), to unprecedented depths.
The team members in Canada, France and across the world participate in numerous programmes that provide complementary information to the optical imaging survey, be it with images in other wavelength ranges or with dedicated spectroscopic surveys. Science drivers include the effects of environment on galaxy evolution, the galaxy luminosity function, galaxy scaling relations, star clusters, the background high redshift universe, the foreground stars of the Milky Way and its streams, and the solar system foregrounds.
More information about the NGVS can be gathered at the NGVS webpage .
The goals of this meeting include :
- recent results on the scientific issues
- a review of the status of the various complementary observational projects related to NGVS
- a comparison of the analysis methods developed by various members of the collaboration
- iterations on the papers for which drafts are available
- an iteration on the to-do list