HAYWOOD , Misha

Despite the huge amount of photometric and spectroscopic efforts targeting the Galactic bulge over the past few years, its age distribution remains controversial owing to both the complexity of determining the age of individual stars and the difficult observing conditions. Taking advantage of the recent release of very deep,...

The Canada-France Imaging Survey (CFIS) will map the northern high Galactic latitude sky in the uband ("CFIS-u", 10,000 deg 2) and in the r-band ("CFIS-r", 5,000 deg 2), enabling a host of stand-alone science investigations, and providing some of the ground-based data necessary for photometric redshift determination for the Euclid mission. In...

We present the chemical distribution of the Milky Way, based on 2900deg2ofu-band photometry taken as part ofthe Canada–France Imaging Survey. When complete, this survey will cover 10,000deg2of the northern sky. Bycombing the CFHTu-band photometry together with Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Pan-STARRSgr,,andi,wedemonstrate that we are able to...