FMOS Science Workshop – 22-23 June 2009, Oxford
Fibre Multi Object Spectrograph

This workshop was made possible by the generous financial support of Oxford & Swinburne Universities and the Australian Research Council (grant LX0989763 CI Glazebrook).

SOC: Andy Bunker, Karl Glazebrook, Gavin Dalton, Richard Ellis, Bob Nichol, Will Percival, Steve Rawlings
LOC: Andy Bunker, Gavin Dalton, Vanessa Ferraro-Wood, Steve Rawlings

We organized a small FMOS workshop in Oxford on June 22nd+23rd 2009 as a successor to previous UK-Japanese-AU workshops - timely to discuss new opportunities for extragalactic and cosmological science with the recently commissioned FMOS instrument on Subaru. The immediate goals were:
(a) to hear about FMOS commissioning, early science, schedule and expected performance
(b) to propose and discuss FMOS galaxy evolution, high-redshift and cosmological science
(c) to try and make specific plans about surveys - what needs to be done before proposing? Who will do this?

The workshop was held in the Fisher Room in the Denys Wilkinson Building.

The core of the meeting was discussion. The first day contained reports on the FMOS instrument commissioning, and how time can be applied for. We then focussed on the galaxy evolution science on the Monday, and obserational cosmology (for example Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation surveys) on the Tuesday. We had 5 colleagues from Japan attending, including Kouju Ohta (Univ Kyoto) and Naoyuki Tamura (Subaru Observatory) who gave a status report on the instrument.

Naoyuki Tamura has produced an extremely useful web page with the instrument capabillities.

The talks (in PDF format) are available by clicking on the titles in the agenda below. All PDF/Powerpoint files are available by clicking here.

Agenda

DAY 1	Monday 22 June 2009	Instrument status and Galaxy Evolution
9:55am	Steve Rawlings	welcome
10:00am	Gavin Dalton	Introduction to FMOS
10:15am	Naoyuki Tamura	FMOS performance and status
10:40am	Kouji Ohta	Subaru strategic programme
11:10am	Coffee
11:40am	Andy Bunker	Star formation and metal enrichment at z>1
12:00pm	Omar Almaini	Follow up of the UKIDSS/UDS
12:20pm	Taddy Kodama	Star formation history in biased regions at 0.4<3
12:40pm	Christian Wolf	Photometric redshift training sets
12:55pm	Lunch
2:00pm	Ross McLure	Galaxy evolution at high redshift
2:20pm	Seb Oliver	Herschel follow-up with FMOS
2:35pm	Philip Best	Follow-up of HiZELS
2:55pm	Chris Simpson	Faint radio source population
3:15pm	David Bonfield	VIDEO follow-up with FMOS
3:30pm	Tea
4:00pm	discussion (until 5:30pm)	galaxy evolution

DAY 2	Tuesday 23 June 2009	Observational Cosmology
9:00am	Bob Nichol	The MOS landscape
9:25am	John Peacock	Current and future BAO and redshift space distortion observations
9:50am	Karl Glazebrook	Lessons from WiggleZ
10:10am	discussion	status of the field - "gaps in the market place"
10:30am	Coffee
11:00am	Tomonori Totani	FastSOUND
11:20am	Taka Matsubara	Work on BAO for FMOS
11:40am	Will Percival	Radio tie-in (LOFAR)
12:00pm	Naoyuki Tamura	Wide-field study of galaxies at z=1-2
12:15pm	Danail Obreschkow	Simulations in support of FMOS and LOFAR
12:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm	discussion	Observational cosmology surveys
3:15pm	Coffee
3:45pm	Richard Ellis	Wrap-up talk
4:05pm	discussion (until 5pm)	general plan for future

Andy Bunker & Karl Glazebrook

Last Update: 20th June, 2009.