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Observing Dark Energy with SNAP

Astrophysics 2019-08-14 v1

Abstract

The nature of dark energy is of such fundamental importance -- yet such a mystery -- that a dedicated dark energy experiment should be as comprehensive and powerfully incisive as possible. The Supernova/Acceleration Probe robustly controls for a wide variety of systematic uncertainties, employing the Type Ia supernova distance method, with high signal to noise light curves and spectra over the full redshift range from z=0.1-1.7, and the weak gravitational lensing method with an accurate and stable point spread function.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0406186,
  title  = {Observing Dark Energy with SNAP},
  author = {Eric V. Linder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0406186},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures; to appear in Observing Dark Energy (NOAO/Tucson proceedings)