Oxford University Press, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2(459), p. 1179-1200, 2016
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw616
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We present a new redshift survey, the 2dF Quasar Dark Energy Survey pilot (2QDESp), which consists of ≈10 000 quasars from ≈150 deg2 of the southern sky, based on VST-ATLAS imaging and 2dF/AAOmega spectroscopy. Combining our optical photometry with the WISE (W1,W2) bands we can select essentially contamination free quasar samples with 0.8