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Dear ASA,
<div class="">We’re pleased to announce the second data release from the Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES). </div>
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<div class="">This data release contains the complete redshift catalogue and all spectra from the full six years of OzDES observing. Unlike many spectroscopic surveys, OzDES focused on repeated observations of a small number of fields, enabling deep and/or
time-lapse spectra. Over 2013-2019 we repeatedly observed the 10 Dark Energy Survey deep fields on the AAT with 2dF and AAOmega. The final data release contains over 300,000 spectra, with a catalogue of ~30,000 redshifts for objects as faint as 24th magnitude
and redshifts up to z~4.5. Amongst these are thousands of supernova host galaxy spectra as well as spectral time sequences of almost 800 Active Galactic Nuclei.</div>
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<div class="">The paper describing the survey and data release is here (Lidman et al. accepted to MNRAS): <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xawyCvl1rKi0n5Z3CQMbFN?domain=arxiv.org" class="">https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00449</a></div>
<div class="">The data are available on Data Central, see the documentation here:
<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/A6UECwV1vMfZEmnWCq_aTU?domain=docs.datacentral.org.au/" class="">https://docs.datacentral.org.au/ozdes/overview/dr2/</a></div>
<div class="">For more details about OzDES see our website: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/HT2BCxngwOfq5Vj3sYMDD8?domain=mso.anu.edu.au" class="">http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/ozdes/index.html</a> </div>
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<div class="">Enormous thanks to the amazing staff at the Anglo-Australian Telescope who made these observations possible, and to Data Central for hosting the data. </div>
<div class="">Best regards, </div>
<div class="">Tamara Davis on behalf of the OzDES team</div>
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<div>:: Professor Tamara Davis :: School of Mathematics and Physics <br class="">
:: The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia <br class="">
:: <a href="mailto:tamarad@physics.uq.edu.au" class="">tamarad@physics.uq.edu.au</a> :: @tamarastro </div>
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