The Large Zenith Telescope Survey: A deep survey using a 6-m liquid mirror telescope

The Large Zenith Telescope Survey whose construction is almost completed (first light expected in spring 2002) near Vancouver (Canada) is designed to observed a total strip of similar to17' x 120degrees in 40 narrow-band filters spanning 4000-10000 Angstrom. It will gather the spectrophotometric energy distributions of ca. 10(6) galaxies to redshifts z similar to 1, with redshift accuracy sigma(z) = 0.01 at s/n = 10, sigma(z) = 0.04 at s/n = 3, ca. 10(5) stars, and a large sample of QSOs, variable stars, and transient objects of the solar system. The survey is optimized for studying of the evolution of both the luminosity function and the clustering of galaxies to a redshift z similar to 1. It will also provide a complete and homogeneous sample of stars at various galactic latitudes useful for studying galactic structure, and it will be a good instrument for the monitoring of variable objects.