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Giant Gemini GMOS survey

(GGG survey, GGG)
(spectrographic survey of distant quasars)

The Giant Gemini GMOS survey (GGG survey or GGG) was a spectrographic survey of a selection of 163 quasars with z above 4.4, carried out using the GMOS multi-object spectrograph on the Gemini Observatory telescopes. A goal was the accumulation of Lyman-alpha forest data to provide information about galaxies along the lines of sight. Observations were carried out in 2010-2011.


(survey,quasars,cosmology,past)
Further reading:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.445.1745W/abstract
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/445/1745
https://igmspec.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ggg.html

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