We have begun a 45 night NOAO survey program on the Blanco 4m to study the cosmic acceleration using two different techniques. The first is a galaxy cluster survey in coordination with mm-wave surveys like APEX, ACT and SPT. The second is using the galaxy power spectrum to measure cosmological distances out to redshift z~1.
Our survey has been granted 15 nights on the Blanco 4m in Fall 2005, 2006 and 2007. We will use the MOSAIC II imager to carry out a deep, four band (griz) photometric survey of two 50 deg2 patches of the southern sky. These two fields are centered at
23h00m,-55o12m and 05h30m,-52o47m
These regions are chosen to enable observation by the three leading mm-wave survey experiments. These data will be immediately available to all collaboration members and will be released to the public through our BCS archive server one year after the data are acquired.
We are working to extend this deep, large solid angle, multi-wavelength probe of the universe to include X-ray, radio, near-infrared, and infrared components.
BCS Observing information including target lists and observers cookbook here.
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