TAIPAN - a spectrograph to survey the southern sky

TAIPAN——观测南部天空的光谱仪：TAIPAN观测南部天空的光谱仪旨在通过测量红移、距离和速度，将附近星系的数量增加四倍。科学目标包括将宇宙的膨胀率精确测量到1%，并将每个星系的光谱学和无线电数据结合起来，以测量当地宇宙中气体转化为恒星的速度。该项目支持TAIPAN高性能光谱仪的建设，该光谱仪将用于在英国施密特望远镜（UKST）上进行调查。调查结果将免费提供给所有澳大利亚天文学家。

TAIPAN - a spectrograph to survey the southern sky: The TAIPAN spectroscopic survey of the southern sky aims to quadruple the number of nearby galaxies with measured redshifts, distances and velocities. Science goals include measuring the expansion rate of the universe to 1 per cent precision, and combining optical spectroscopy and radio data for each galaxy to measure the rate at which gas is being converted into stars in the local universe. This project supports construction of the TAIPAN high-performance spectrograph that will be used to carry out the survey on the UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST). The results of the survey will be made freely available to all Australian astronomers.