OzDES multi-object fibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: Results and second data release

C. Lidman, B. E. Tucker, T. M. Davis, S. A. Uddin, J. Asorey, K. Bolejko, D. Brout, J. Calcino, D. Carollo, A. Carr, M. Childress, J. K. Hoormann, R. J. Foley, L. Galbany, K. Glazebrook, S. R. Hinton, R. Kessler, A. G. Kim, A. King, A. KreminK. Kuehn, D. Lagattuta, G. F. Lewis, E. MacAulay, U. Malik, M. March, P. Martini, A. Möller, D. Mudd, R. C. Nichol, F. Panther, D. Parkinson, M. Pursiainen, M. Sako, E. Swann, R. Scalzo, D. Scolnic, R. Sharp, M. Smith, N. E. Sommer, M. Sullivan, S. Webb, P. Wiseman, Z. Yu, F. Yuan, B. Zhang, T. M.C. Abbott, M. Aguena, S. Allam, J. Annis, S. Avila, E. Bertin, S. Bhargava, D. Brooks, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, F. J. Castander, M. Costanzi, L. N. Da Costa, J. De Vicente, P. Doel, T. F. Eifler, S. Everett, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, G. Gutierrez, W. G. Hartley, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, D. J. James, N. Kuropatkin, T. S. Li, M. Lima, H. Lin, M. A.G. Maia, J. L. Marshall, P. Melchior, F. Menanteau, R. Miquel, A. Palmese, F. Paz-Chinchón, A. A. Plazas, A. Roodman, E. S. Rykoff, E. Sanchez, B. Santiago, V. Scarpine, M. Schubnell, S. Serrano, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, E. Suchyta, M. E.C. Swanson, G. Tarle, D. L. Tucker, T. N. Varga, A. R. Walker, W. Wester, R. D. Wilkinson

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Abstract

We present a description of the Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES) and summarize the results from its 6 years of operations. Using the 2dF fibre positioner and AAOmega spectrograph on the 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope, OzDES has monitored 771 active galactic nuclei, classified hundreds of supernovae, and obtained redshifts for thousands of galaxies that hosted a transient within the 10 deep fields of the Dark Energy Survey. We also present the second OzDES data release, containing the redshifts of almost 30 000 sources, some as faint as rAB = 24 mag, and 375 000 individual spectra. These data, in combination with the time-series photometry from the Dark Energy Survey, will be used to measure the expansion history of the Universe out to z ∼1.2 and the masses of hundreds of black holes out to z ∼4. OzDES is a template for future surveys that combine simultaneous monitoring of targets with wide-field imaging cameras and wide-field multi-object spectrographs.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)19-35
Number of pages17
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume496
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 11 2020

Funding

FHP was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. Based in part on observations at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The DES data management system is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers AST-1138766 and AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MINECO under grants AYA2015-71825, ESP2015-66861, FPA2015-68048, SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, and MDM-2015-0509, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union. IFAE is partially funded by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union\u2019s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) including ERC grant agreements 240672, 291329, and 306478. We acknowledge support from the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ci\u00EAncia e Tecnologia (INCT) e-Universe (CNPq grant 465376/2014-2). LG was funded by the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie grant agreement no. 839090. Parts of this research were supported by the Australian Research Council under grants DP160100930, FL180100168, and FT140101270.

Keywords

  • catalogues
  • cosmology: dark energy
  • quasars: supermassive black holes
  • surveys
  • techniques: spectroscopic
  • transients: supernovae

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