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Summary of a journal-club Date Subject Presented by 10 july 2014 A survey status report: SDSS-III (finishing), SDSS-IV (starting), WFIRST (making progress) I will give a brief status report on the SDSS-III program, which completed observations on June 30 and is working towards its final public data release in January 2015; on SDSS-IV, a program of three interleaved surveys that started observations on July 1; and on the WFIRST mission, which appears to be making good progress towards a launch in the first half of the 2020s. arXiv 2013 David Weinberg Dept. Astron., Ohio State Univ. Columbus, USA Image : D1 Deep Field from the Legacy Survey of the Canada-France-Hawaï Telescope (CFHTLS) TERAPIX Data Processing Center (CNRS/INSU - IAP - CEA)