Thirty Years of Astronomical Discovery with UKIRT

Andy Adamson is Associate Director of the Gemini telescope and former Associate Director of UKIRT. John Davies is Astronomer at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Edinburgh, ROE and a former UKIRT support Scientist. Ian Robson is Director of the UK Astronomy Technology Centre. Formerly, he was Director of the Joint Astronomy Centre.

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 Lya Emitters at z ~ 9.- Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts at UKIRT.- The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) : Origins and Highlights.- A Billion Stars: the Near-IR View of the Galaxy with the UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey.- The UKIDSS Galactic Clusters Survey.- The UKIDSS Deep eXtralactic Survey.- UKIDSS UDS progress and science highlights.- Exploring Massive Galaxy Evolution with the UKIDSS Ultra-deep Survey.- The UKIRT Planet Finder.