<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Coil, Alison L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Blanton, Michael R.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Burles, Scott M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cool, Richard J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Eisenstein, Daniel J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Moustakas, John</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kenneth C. Wong</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zhu, Guangtun</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aird, James</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bernstein, Rebecca A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bolton, Adam S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hogg, David W.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The PRIsm MUlti-object Survey (PRIMUS). I. Survey Overview and Characteristics</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Astrophysical Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">November 1, 2011</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...741....8C</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">741</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;We present the PRIsm MUlti-object Survey (PRIMUS), a spectroscopic faintgalaxy redshift survey to z ~ 1. PRIMUS uses a low-dispersion prism andslitmasks to observe ~2500 objects at once in a 0.18 deg&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;field of view, using the Inamori Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrographcamera on the Magellan I Baade 6.5 m telescope at Las CampanasObservatory. PRIMUS covers a total of 9.1 deg&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; of sky to adepth of i &lt;sub&gt;AB&lt;/sub&gt; ~ 23.5 in seven different deep,multi-wavelength fields that have coverage from the Galaxy EvolutionExplorer, Spitzer, and either XMM or Chandra, as well as multiple-bandoptical and near-IR coverage. PRIMUS includes ~130,000 robust redshiftsof unique objects with a redshift precision of σ&lt;sub&gt; z &lt;/sub&gt;/(1+ z) ~ 0.005. The redshift distribution peaks at z ~ 0.6 and extends toz = 1.2 for galaxies and z = 5 for broad-line active galactic nuclei.The motivation, observational techniques, fields, target selection,slitmask design, and observations are presented here, with a briefsummary of the redshift precision; a forthcoming paper presents the datareduction, redshift fitting, redshift confidence, and surveycompleteness. PRIMUS is the largest faint galaxy survey undertaken to&lt;/p&gt;
</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">n/a</style></notes><custom3><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eprintid: arXiv:1011.4307</style></custom3><reprint-edition><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">structure to z ~ 1.</style></reprint-edition></record></records></xml>