The Case for Deep, Wide-Field Cosmology
Abstract
Much of the science case for the next generation of deep, wide-field optical/infrared surveys has been driven by the further study of dark energy. This is a laudable goal (and the subject of a companion white paper by Zhan et al.). However, one of the most important lessons of the current generation of surveys is that the interesting science questions at the end of the survey are quite different than they were when the surveys were being planned. The current surveys succeeded in this evolving terrain by being very general tools that could be applied to a number of very fundamental measurements. Likewise, the accessibility of the data enabled the broader cosmological and astronomical community to generate more science than the survey collaborations could alone. With that in mind, we should consider some of the basic physical and cosmological questions that surveys like LSST and JDEM-Wide will be able to address.
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@article{arxiv.0902.2590,
title = {The Case for Deep, Wide-Field Cosmology},
author = {Ryan Scranton and Andreas Albrecht and Robert Caldwell and Asantha Cooray and Olivier Dore and Salman Habib and Alan Heavens and Katrin Heitmann and Bhuvnesh Jain and Lloyd Knox and Jeffrey A. Newman and Paolo Serra and Yong-Seon Song and Michael Strauss and Tony Tyson and Licia Verde and Hu Zhan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.2590},
year = {2009}
}
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7 pages, 5 figures, whitepaper submitted to Astro2010 Decadal Survey