The WiggleZ project: AAOmega and Dark Energy

Karl Glazebrook , Chris Blake , Warrick Couch , Duncan Forbes , Michael Drinkwater , Russell Jurek , Kevin Pimbblet , Barry Madore

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Chris Martin Todd Small Karl Forster Matthew Colless Rob Sharp Scott Croom David Woods Michael Pracy David Gilbank Howard Yee Mike Gladders

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We describe the `WiggleZ' spectroscopic survey of 280,000 star-forming galaxies selected from a combination of GALEX ultra-violet and SDSS + RCS2 optical imaging. The fundamental goal is a detection of the baryonic acoustic oscillations in galaxy clustering at high-redshift (0.5 < z < 1) and a precise measurement of the equation of state of dark energy from this purely geometric and robust method. The survey has already started on the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope using the AAOmega spectrograph, and planned to complete during 2009. The WWW page for the survey can be found at http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/wigglez

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