zCOSMOS: A Large VLT/VIMOS Redshift Survey Covering 0 < z < 3 in the COSMOS Field

ZCOSMOS is a large-redshift survey that is being undertaken in the COSMOS field using 600 hr of observation
\nwith the VIMOS spectrograph on the 8 m VLT. The survey is designed to characterize the environments of COSMOS
\ngalaxies from the 100 kpc scales of galaxy groups up to the 100 Mpc scale of the cosmic web and to produce diagnostic
\ninformation on galaxies and active galactic nuclei. The zCOSMOS survey consists of two parts: (1) zCOSMOSbright,
\na magnitude-limited I-band I_(AB) < 22.5 sample of about 20,000 galaxies with 0.1 < z < 1.2 covering the whole
\n1.7 deg^2 COSMOS ACS field, for which the survey parameters at z ~ 0.7 are designed to be directly comparable…