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Canadian participation in wide-field astronomy

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Canadian astronomers and facilities have had a significant impact in wide-field astronomy. With community planning exercises underway this looks set to continue, with new capabilities and international collaborations in the near future.

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The Wide-field Astronomy in Canada meeting was held at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 10–12 October 2018, and was supported in partnership with the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. A.W.M. thanks R. Thacker, L. Simard, H. Kirk and P. Côte for feedback on a draft of this manuscript.

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  1. National Research Council of Canada’s Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

    Alan W. McConnachie

  2. Department of Physics and McGill Space Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Daryl Haggard

  3. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Daryl Haggard

  4. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Renée Hložek

  5. Centre for Astrophysics and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Will J. Percival & Michael Balogh

  6. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Will J. Percival

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McConnachie, A.W., Haggard, D., Hložek, R. et al. Canadian participation in wide-field astronomy. Nat Astron 3, 121–123 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0690-6

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