Speaker
Kyle Barbary
(ANL)
Description
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a five-year astronomical survey,
starting in Fall 2013. DES is specifically designed to study dark
energy, using a new 570-megapixel digital imager, the Dark Energy
Camera, mounted on the Blanco 4-meter telescope at CTIO in Chile. It
will do this using four major complimentary dark energy probes, one of
which is Type Ia supernovae. As part of DES, a time-domain survey over
30 square degrees will yield well-measured light curves for
approximately 4000 Type Ia supernovae, more than quadrupling the
world's current cosmological sample. Extensive tests of the camera,
operating systems, and data quality were carried out in a science
verification observing period in 2012-13. I will present an overview
of the DES supernova program and supernova results from the data taken
during science verification.
| APS member ID | MA569547 |
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Primary author
Kyle Barbary
(ANL)
Co-authors
John Marriner
(FNAL)
Kuhlmann Stephen
(ANL)
