Probing the Universe Using a Mostly Virtual Survey:
The Garching-Bonn Deep Survey

Marco Hetterscheidt [1], Patrick Simon [1], Thomas Erben [1], Peter Schneider [1], Mischa Schirmer [2], Jörg P. Dietrich [1,8], Hendrik Hildebrandt [1], Oliver Cordes [1], Tim Schrabback [1], Lutz Haberzettl [3,6], Olaf Schmithuesen [3], Clemens Trachternach [3], Christian Wolf [4], Klaus Meisenheimer [5], Alberto Micol [7], Francesco Pierfederici [8]

[1] Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Universität Bonn, Germany; [2] Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Santa Cruz de La Palma, Tenerife, Spain; [3] Astronomisches Institut der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany; [4] Denys Department of Physics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; [5] Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany; [6] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Louisville, USA; [7] ESA/ESO Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility, Garching, Germany; [8] ESO