An Efficient Approach to Obtaining Large Numbers of Distant Supernova Host Galaxy Redshifts by Lidman, C, Ruhlmann-Kleider, V, Sullivan, M, Myzska, J, Dobbie, P, Glazebrook, K, Mould, J, Astier, P, Balland, C, Betoule, M, Carlberg, R, Conley, A, Fouchez, D, Guy, J, Hardin, D, Hook, I, Howell, D, Pain, R, Palanque-Delabrouille, N, Perrett, K, Pritchet, C, Regnault, N, Rich, J

“…We use the wide-field capabilities of the 2 degree field fibre positioner and the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) to obtain redshifts of galaxies that hosted supernovae during the first 3 years of the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS). …”

Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS): Motivation, design and target catalogue by Davies, L, Robotham, A, Driver, S, Lagos, C, Cortese, L, Mannering, E, Foster, C, Lidman, C, Hashemizadeh, A, Koushan, S, O’Toole, S, Baldry, I, Bilicki, M, Bland-Hawthorn, J, Bremer, M, Brown, M, Bryant, J, Catinella, B, Croom, S, Grootes, M, Holwerda, B, Jarvis, M, Maddox, N, Meyer, M, Moffett, A, Phillipps, S, Taylor, E, Windhorst, R, Wolf, C

“…The Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS) is a large spectroscopic campaign at the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) aimed at bridging the near and distant Universe by producing the highest completeness survey of galaxies and groups at intermediate redshifts (0.3 < z < 1.0). …”

The 2-degree Field Lensing Survey: design and clustering measurements by Blake, C, Amon, A, Childress, M, Erben, T, Glazebrook, K, Harnois-Deraps, J, Heymans, C, Hildebrandt, H, Hinton, SR, Janssens, S, Johnson, A, Joudaki, S, Klaes, D, Kuijken, K, Lidman, C, Marin, FA, Parkinson, D, Poole, GB, Wolf, C

“… We present the 2-degree Field Lensing Survey (2dFLenS), a new galaxy redshift survey performed at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. 2dFLenS is the first wide-area spectroscopic survey specifically targeting the area mapped by deep-imaging gravitational lensing fields, in this case the Kilo-Degree Survey. 2dFLenS obtained 70 079 redshifts in the range z < 0.9 over an area of 731 deg2, and is designed to extend the data sets available for testing gravitational physics and promote the development of relevant algorithms for joint imaging and spectroscopic analysis. …”