Today Blanton and I discussed what we would do with 100 nights on a good 2 m telescope. What's the point of doing yet more redshift surveys at redshift of about 2/3? As I see it, you got (a) baryon feature, (b) precision tests of the growth of large-scale structure, or (c) evolution of galaxies and star-formation activity. I can't think of much else, except rare objects, lensing, mergers, etc., most of which fall into category (c). So if you are going to do a new survey, you better be able to show that you can do one of these better than anyone else.
Quintero's paper is nearly ready for prime time.
It's interesting to note that 65% of the red shifts surveyed disagree with Bush's policy on Iraq.
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