Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

Table of Contents - 2006 - Volume 2, Symposium S235 (Galaxy Evolution Across the Hubble Time)  

Contributed Papers

CATS: CfAO Treasury Survey of distant galaxies, supernovae, and AGN's

David C. Kooa1a4, Jason Melbournea1, Claire Maxa1a4, Anne Meteviera1a4, Mark Ammonsa1, James E. Larkina2, Matthew Barczysa2, Shelley A. Wrighta2 and Eric Steinbringa3

a1 Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA email: ammons@ucolick.org, anne@ucolick.org, jmel@ucolick.org, koo@ucolick.org, max@ucolick.org

a2 Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA email: barczysm@astro.ucla.edu, larkin@astro.ucla.edu, saw@astro.ucla.edu

a3 Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, NRC Canada, Victoria, BC V9E 2E7, Canada email: Eric.Steinbring@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

a4 UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Abstract

The NSF Science and Technology Center for Adaptive Optics (CfAO) is supporting a major scientific legacy project called the CfAO Treasury Survey (CATS). CATS is obtaining near-infrared AO data in deep HST survey fields, such as GEMS, GOODS-N, & EGS. Besides summarizing the main objectives of CATS, we highlight some recent imaging work on the study of distant field galaxies, AGNs, and a redshift z = 1.32 supernova. CATS plans the first data release to the community in early 2007 (check http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~irlab/cats/index.shtml for more details on CATS and latest updates).

Keywords

  • Instrument: adaptive optics;
  • surveys;
  • galaxies: active;
  • galaxies: evolution;
  • supernovae