VIPERS spectroscopic redshifts (PDR-2)

We release redshifts, spectra, CFHTLS magnitudes and ancillary information (as masks and weights) for a complete sample of 86 775 galaxies (plus 4732 other objects, including stars and serendipitous galaxies); we also include their full photometrically-selected parent catalogue. The sample is magnitude limited to i_AB_<=22.5, with an additional colour-colour pre-selection devised as to exclude galaxies at z<0.5.

This practically doubles the effective sampling of the VIMOS spectrograph over the range 0.5<z<1.2 (reaching 47% on average), yielding a final median local galaxy density close to 5x10^-3^h^3^/Mpc^3^. The total area spanned by the final data set is ~=23.5deg^2^, corresponding to 288 VIMOS fields with marginal overlaps, split over two regions within the CFHTLS-Wide W1 and W4 equatorial fields (at RA~=2 and ~=22h, respectively).