SHARKS survey: The first near-infrared survey optimised for low surface brightness science

In recent decades, there has been extraordinary progress in the study of low surface brightness objects in the optical range. Today's deepest optical surveys allows us to observe details as faint as muV~31 mag/arcsec². However, there has been no infrared surveys dedicated to the study of low surface brightness objects to date. In this contribution, we present the first results of a specific reduction of the SHARKS deep near-infrared wide-field survey. Using state-of-the-art techniques for deep data reduction, we show for the first time the use of near-infrared data for the study of Galactic cirrus, ultra-faint galaxies, the outer parts of galaxies and intra-cluster light. Our results open up to the infrared range astronomical objects that were hitherto unexplored in this regime.