Swann, E. and Sullivan, M. and Carrick, J. and Hoenig, S. and Hook, I. and Kotak, R. and Maguire, K. and McMahon, R. and Nichol, R. and Smartt, S. (2019) 4MOST Consortium Survey 10: The Time-Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES). The Messenger, 175. pp. 58-61. ISSN 0722-6691
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The Time-Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES) is focused on the spectro-scopic follow-up of extragalactic optical transients and variable sources selected from forthcoming large sky surveys such as that from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). TiDES contains three sub-surveys: (i) spectroscopic observations of supernova- like transients; (ii) comprehensive follow-up of transient host galaxies to obtain redshift measurements for cosmological applications; and (iii) repeat spectroscopic observations to enable the reverberation mapping of active galactic nuclei. Our simulations predict we will be able to classify transients down to r = 22.5 magnitudes (AB) and, over five years of 4MOST operations, obtain spectra for up to 30 000 live transients to redshift z 0.5, measure redshifts for up to 50 000 transient host galaxies to z 1 and monitor around 700 active galactic nuclei to z 2.5....