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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.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Lidman, C and Tucker, BE and Davis, TM and Uddin, SA and Asorey, J and Bolejko, K and Brout, D and Calcino, J and Carollo, D and Carr, A and Childress, M and Hoormann, JK and Foley, RJ and Galbany, L and Glazebrook, K and Hinton, SR and Kessler, R and Kim, AG and King, A and Kremin, A and Kuehn, K and Lagattuta, D and Lewis, GF and MacAulay, E and Malik, U and March, M and Martini, P and Moller, A and Mudd, D and Nichol, RC and Panther, F and Parkinson, D and Pursiainen, M and Sako, M and Swann, E and Scalzo, R and Scolnic, D and Sharp, R and Smith, M and Sommer, NE and Sullivan, M and Webb, S and Wiseman, P and Yu, Z and Yuan, F and Zhang, B and Abbott, TMC and Aguena, M and Allam, S and Annis, J and Avila, S and Bertin, E and Bhargava, S and Brooks, D and Carnero Rosell, A and Carrasco Kind, M and Carretero, J and Castander, FJ and Costanzi, M and da Costa, LN and De Vicente, J and Doel, P and Eifler, TF and Everett, S and Fosalba, P and Frieman, J and Garcia a-Bellido, J and Gaztanaga, E and Gruen, D and Gruendl, RA and Gschwend, J and Gutierrez, G and Hartley, WG and Hollowood, DL and Honscheid, K and James, DJ and Kuropatkin, N and Li, TS and Lima, M and Lin, H and Maia, MAG and Marshall, JL and Melchior, P and Menanteau, F and Miquel, R and Palmese, A and Paz-Chinchon, F and Plazas, AA and Roodman, A and Rykoff, ES and Sanchez, E and Santiago, B and Scarpine, V and Schubnell, M and Serrano, S and Sevilla-Noarbe, I and Suchyta, E and Swanson, MEC and Tarle, G and Tucker, DL and Varga, TN and Walker, AR and Wester, W and Wilkinson, RD
Keywords:	transients: supernovae – quasars: supermassive black holes – cosmology: dark energy – surveys – catalogues – techniques: spectroscopic
Journal or Publication Title:	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Publisher:	Blackwell Publishing Ltd
ISSN:	0035-8711
DOI / ID Number:	10.1093/mnras/staa1341
Copyright Information:	This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2020 the authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
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