The DEEP2 Redshift Survey: Plans and Prospects

The DEEP2 Collaboration

How was the Universe different when half its current age?

Studying distant objects can constrain cosmology in addition to galaxy formation...

The DEIMOS Spectrograph
(Deep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph)

DEIMOS characteristics

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DEIMOS camera design. . . and test data!

DEEP2: The Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe

The DEEP2 Redshift Survey in brief

Two surveys in one

Comparison between DEEP2 and local surveys

Survey strategy

Multipass target selection

Simulated DEEP2 results

Coordinated observations in Groth field

Schedule of the DEEP2 Survey

The classical dN /dz test

From counts to cosmology

A quintessence primer

A new spin

Behavior of n(v_c,z)

Behavior of n(v_c,z) (continued)

Abundance of clusters

Cosmic variance

Systematic effects: Incompleteness

Systematic effects: s_v

Systematic effects: Baryonic Infall

Constraints on W_m, W_L

Constraints on W_m, W_L

Constraints on W_m, W_L

Constraints on W_m, w

Constraints on W_m, w

Constraints on W_m, w

The J3 ratio test

What is bias?

Bias can be measured from the apparent anisotropy of correlations

Measuring b with DEEP2

Determining the bias as a function of properties

J3 constraints on cosmological parameters

Conclusions