The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy – an overview

M. C. Abbott, T.; B. Abdalla, Filipe; Aleksić, Jelena; S. Allam, Sahar; Amara, A.; Bacon, David; Balbinot, E.; Banerji, M.; Bechtol, K.; Benoit-Lévy, A.; M. Bernstein, G.; Bertin, E.; Blazek, J; Bonnett, C.; Louise Bridle, Sarah; Brooks, D.; J. Brunner, Robert; Buckley-Geer, E.; L. Burke, D.; B. Caminha, G.; Capozzi, D.; Carlsen, J.; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carollo, Marcella; Carrasco Kind, M.; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Javier Castander Serentill, Francisco; Clerkin, L.; E. Collett, Thomas; J. Conselice, Christopher; Crocce, M.; Eduardo da Cunha, Carlos; D'Andrea, Christopher; N. da Costa, Luiz; M. Davis, Tamara; Desai, S; T. Diehl, H.; P. Dietrich, J.; Dodelson, Scott; Doel, Peter; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Estrada, Juan; Etherington, James; E. Evrard, A.; Fabbri, J.; A. Finley, David; Flaugher, Brenna; Foley, RN; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Frieman, J; García-Bellido, J.; Gaztañaga, E; W Gerdes, D; Giannantonio, T.; Db, Goldstein; Gruen, D.; A. Gruendl, Robert; Guarnieri, P.; Gutiérrez, G; G Hartley, W; (Klaus) Honscheid, K.; Jain, B; J. James, D.; Jeltema, T.; Jouvel, S.; Kessler, R.; L. King, A.; Kirk, Donnacha; Kron, R.; Kuehn, K.; Kuropatkin, N.; Lahav, O.; S. Li, T.; Lima, M; Lin, H.; Antônio Geimba Maia, Marcio; Makler, Martín; Manera, Marc; Maraston, Claudia; L. Marshall, J.; Martini, P.; G. McMahon, R.; M. Melchior, Peter; Merson, A.; J. Miller, Christopher; Miquel, R.; J. Mohr, J.; Morice-Atkinson, Xan; Naidoo, Krishna; H. Neilsen, Eric; C. Nichol, Robert; Dennis Nord, Brian; L. C. Ogando, R.; Ostrovski, F.; Palmese, A.; Papadopoulos, Andreas; V. Peiris, Hiranya; Peoples, J.; J. Percival, Will; A. Plazas, A.; L. Reed, Sophie; Refregier, Alexandre; K. Romer, Anita; Roodman, A.; Ross, A.J.; Rozo, E; Rykoff, Eli; Sadeh, I.; Sako, Masao; Sánchez Alonso, Carles; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, B.; Scarpine, Victor; Schubnell, M.; Sevilla-Noarbe, I; Sheldon, E; Wilson L. Smith, Matthew; Christopher Smith, Robert; Soares-Santos, M.; Sobreira, F.; Tamar Soumagnac, Maayane; Suchyta, E.; Sullivan, M.; E. C. Swanson, M.; Tarlé, G.; Thaler, J.; Thomas, D.; Thomas, R.; L. Tucker, Douglas; D. Vieira, J.; Vikram, V.; Walker, A.; H. Wechsler, Risa; Weller, J.; Carl Wester, William; Whiteway, L; George Wilcox, Harry; Yanny, B; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Zuntz, J.; Collaboration, DES

doi:10.1093/mnras/stw641

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The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy – an overview

Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society • Mar 21, 2016

Authors:

T. M. C. Abbott

Filipe B. Abdalla

Jelena Aleksić

Abstract

This overview paper describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the DES early data. DES is using a wide-field camera (DECam) on the 4 m Blanco Telescope in Chile to image 5000 sq deg of the sky ...

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Physics

Dark energy

Astrophysics

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