Adamson A., Davies J., Robson E.I., Robson E.I. (Eds.) Thirty Years of Astronomical Discovery with UKIRT: The Scientific Achievement of the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope

Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013. — 336 p. — (Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Volume 37) — ISBN: 9400774311The authors are all experts in their respective fields, for example instrument scientists, operations staff and leading astronomers.
These are the proceedings of an international meeting hosted by the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the dedication of the UKIRT, the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope.
The volume comprises 31 professional level papers. The first part of the book has 10 thorough reviews of the conception, design and build of the telescope, as well as accounts of some its key instruments such as IRCAM (the common-user infrared camera), CGS4 (the fourth Cooled Grating Spectrometer) and the Wide Field Camera. The second part of the book comprises 14 reviews of scientific achievements during its twenty years of visitor mode operations. The final part of the book is a series of 7 reviews of the results from the multiple surveys being done as part of UKIDSS (UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey).
The authors are all experts in their respective fields, for example instrument scientists, operations staff and leading astronomers.The UKIRT Success Story
UKIRT – The Project and the Early Years
The IRCAM Revolution
Continuum Submillimetre Astronomy from UKIRT
CGS4: A Breakthrough Instrument
The UKIRT Upgrades Programme
Operational Innovations
The UKIRT Wide-Field Camera
Polarimetry at UKIRT
UKIRT in the Mid-Infrared
Thirty Years of Star Formation at UKIRT
Comets and Asteroids from UKIRT
Spectroscopic Tomography of a Wind-Collision Region
Highlights of Infrared Spectroscopy of the Interstellar Medium at UKIRT
UKIRT and the Brown Dwarfs: From Speculation to Classification
White Dwarfs in UKIDSS
Discovery of Variables in WFCAM and VISTA Data
Near Infrared Extinction at the Galactic Centre
Observations of PAHs and Nanodiamonds with UKIRT
Nearby Galaxies with UKIRT: Uncovering Star Formation, Structure and Stellar Masses
WFCAM Surveys of Local Group Galaxies
HiZELS: The High Redshift Emission Line Survey with UKIRT
The HiZELS/UKIRT Large Survey for Bright Lyα Emitters at z ∼ 9
Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts at UKIRT
The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS): Origins and Highlights