VEILS - The VISTA Extragalactic Infrared Legacy Survey

The VISTA Extragalactic Infrared Legacy Survey (VEILS; Program ID:198.A-2005) is a deep J and Ks-band transient and wide-field survey being conducted using the VIRCAM camera with the primary goals of understanding the epoch of reionisation, the build-up of massive galaxies, and constraining the cosmological equation of state using both Type 1a supernovae and AGN dust lag measurements. VEILS is covering 9 sq-deg of the extragalactic sky over three fields: ES1 (RA=00h30m, Dec=-43d00m), CDFS (RA=03h36m, Dec=-28d00m) and XMM-LSS (RA=02h22m, Dec=-06d00m). Each field requires two separate pointings of the camera to image. A total of 14-16 epochs are required per year per field for the transient science and by the end of the survey we expect around 30-40 epochs of observations per field.