The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a 5000 sq deg griz imaging survey to be conducted using a proposed 3 sq deg (2.2deg-diameter) wide-field mosaic camera on the CTIO Blanco 4m telescope. The primary scientific goal of the DES is to constrain dark energy cosmological parameters via four complementary methods: galaxy cluster counting, weak lensing, galaxy angular correlations, and Type Ia supernovae, supported by precision photometric redshifts. Here we present the photometric calibration plans for the DES, including a discussion of standard stars and field-to-field calibrations.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0611137,
title = {Photometric Calibration of the DES},
author = {Douglas L. Tucker and James T. Annis and Huan Lin and Stephen Kent and Chris Stoughton and John Peoples and Sahar Allam and Joseph J. Mohr and Wayne A. Barkhouse and Choong Ngeow and Tanweer Alam and Cristina Beldica and Dora Cai and Greg Daues and Ray Plante and Chris Miller and Chris Smith and Nicholas B. Suntzeff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0611137},
year = {2019}
}
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14 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the proceedings for the workshop, "The Future of Photometric, Spectrophotometric, and Polarimetric Standardization"