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The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is a stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment planned to begin operations in 2020. In this article, we provided a short review of DESI presented during the conference {\it Recontres de…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-08 Mariana Vargas-Magana , David D. Brooks , Michael M. Levi , Gregory G. Tarle

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a five-year optical imaging campaign with the goal of understanding the origin of cosmic acceleration. DES performs a 5000 square degree survey of the southern sky in five optical bands (g,r,i,z,Y) to a depth…

ULTRACAM is an ultra-fast, triple-beam CCD camera which has been designed to study one of the few remaining unexplored regions of observational parameter space - high temporal resolution. The camera will see first light in Spring 2002, at a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vik Dhillon , Tom Marsh , the ULTRACAM team

We present constraints on models of cosmology and astrophysics using cosmic shear data vectors from three datasets: the northern and southern Galactic cap of the Dark Energy Camera All Data Everywhere (DECADE) project, and the Dark Energy…

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is an ongoing spectroscopic survey to measure the dark energy equation of state to unprecedented precision. We describe the DESI Sky Continuum Monitor System, which tracks the night sky…

The Dark Energy Survey Data Management (DESDM) system will process and archive the data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) over the five year period of operation. This paper focuses on a new adaptable processing framework developed to…

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is under construction to measure the expansion history of the universe using the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) technique. The spectra of 35 million galaxies and quasars over $14000…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-20 Yutong Duan , Joseph H. Silber , Todd M. Claybaugh , Steven P. Ahlen , David Brooks , Gregory Tarlè

DESI (Dark Energy Spectropic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations and the growth of structure through redshift-space distortions with a wide-area galaxy and quasar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 DESI Collaboration , Amir Aghamousa , Jessica Aguilar , Steve Ahlen , Shadab Alam , Lori E. Allen , Carlos Allende Prieto , James Annis , Stephen Bailey , Christophe Balland , Otger Ballester , Charles Baltay , Lucas Beaufore , Chris Bebek , Timothy C. Beers , Eric F. Bell , José Luis Bernal , Robert Besuner , Florian Beutler , Chris Blake , Hannes Bleuler , Michael Blomqvist , Robert Blum , Adam S. Bolton , Cesar Briceno , David Brooks , Joel R. Brownstein , Elizabeth Buckley-Geer , Angela Burden , Etienne Burtin , Nicolas G. Busca , Robert N. Cahn , Yan-Chuan Cai , Laia Cardiel-Sas , Raymond G. Carlberg , Pierre-Henri Carton , Ricard Casas , Francisco J. Castander , Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota , Todd M. Claybaugh , Madeline Close , Carl T. Coker , Shaun Cole , Johan Comparat , Andrew P. Cooper , M. -C. Cousinou , Martin Crocce , Jean-Gabriel Cuby , Daniel P. Cunningham , Tamara M. Davis , Kyle S. Dawson , Axel de la Macorra , Juan De Vicente , Timothée Delubac , Mark Derwent , Arjun Dey , Govinda Dhungana , Zhejie Ding , Peter Doel , Yutong T. Duan , Anne Ealet , Jerry Edelstein , Sarah Eftekharzadeh , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Ann Elliott , Stéphanie Escoffier , Matthew Evatt , Parker Fagrelius , Xiaohui Fan , Kevin Fanning , Arya Farahi , Jay Farihi , Ginevra Favole , Yu Feng , Enrique Fernandez , Joseph R. Findlay , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Michael J. Fitzpatrick , Brenna Flaugher , Samuel Flender , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Pablo Fosalba , Carlos S. Frenk , Michele Fumagalli , Boris T. Gaensicke , Giuseppe Gallo , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Enrique Gaztanaga , Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo , Terry Gerard , Irena Gershkovich , Tommaso Giannantonio , Denis Gillet , Guillermo Gonzalez-de-Rivera , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Shelby Gott , Or Graur , Gaston Gutierrez , Julien Guy , Salman Habib , Henry Heetderks , Ian Heetderks , Katrin Heitmann , Wojciech A. Hellwing , David A. Herrera , Shirley Ho , Stephen Holland , Klaus Honscheid , Eric Huff , Timothy A. Hutchinson , Dragan Huterer , Ho Seong Hwang , Joseph Maria Illa Laguna , Yuzo Ishikawa , Dianna Jacobs , Niall Jeffrey , Patrick Jelinsky , Elise Jennings , Linhua Jiang , Jorge Jimenez , Jennifer Johnson , Richard Joyce , Eric Jullo , Stéphanie Juneau , Sami Kama , Armin Karcher , Sonia Karkar , Robert Kehoe , Noble Kennamer , Stephen Kent , Martin Kilbinger , Alex G. Kim , David Kirkby , Theodore Kisner , Ellie Kitanidis , Jean-Paul Kneib , Sergey Koposov , Eve Kovacs , Kazuya Koyama , Anthony Kremin , Richard Kron , Luzius Kronig , Andrea Kueter-Young , Cedric G. Lacey , Robin Lafever , Ofer Lahav , Andrew Lambert , Michael Lampton , Martin Landriau , Dustin Lang , Tod R. Lauer , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Laurent Le Guillou , Auguste Le Van Suu , Jae Hyeon Lee , Su-Jeong Lee , Daniela Leitner , Michael Lesser , Michael E. Levi , Benjamin L'Huillier , Baojiu Li , Ming Liang , Huan Lin , Eric Linder , Sarah R. Loebman , Zarija Lukić , Jun Ma , Niall MacCrann , Christophe Magneville , Laleh Makarem , Marc Manera , Christopher J. Manser , Robert Marshall , Paul Martini , Richard Massey , Thomas Matheson , Jeremy McCauley , Patrick McDonald , Ian D. McGreer , Aaron Meisner , Nigel Metcalfe , Timothy N. Miller , Ramon Miquel , John Moustakas , Adam Myers , Milind Naik , Jeffrey A. Newman , Robert C. Nichol , Andrina Nicola , Luiz Nicolati da Costa , Jundan Nie , Gustavo Niz , Peder Norberg , Brian Nord , Dara Norman , Peter Nugent , Thomas O'Brien , Minji Oh , Knut A. G. Olsen , Cristobal Padilla , Hamsa Padmanabhan , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Antonella Palmese , Daniel Pappalardo , Isabelle Pâris , Changbom Park , Anna Patej , John A. Peacock , Hiranya V. Peiris , Xiyan Peng , Will J. Percival , Sandrine Perruchot , Matthew M. Pieri , Richard Pogge , Jennifer E. Pollack , Claire Poppett , Francisco Prada , Abhishek Prakash , Ronald G. Probst , David Rabinowitz , Anand Raichoor , Chang Hee Ree , Alexandre Refregier , Xavier Regal , Beth Reid , Kevin Reil , Mehdi Rezaie , Constance M. Rockosi , Natalie Roe , Samuel Ronayette , Aaron Roodman , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Graziano Rossi , Eduardo Rozo , Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider , Eli S. Rykoff , Cristiano Sabiu , Lado Samushia , Eusebio Sanchez , Javier Sanchez , David J. Schlegel , Michael Schneider , Michael Schubnell , Aurélia Secroun , Uros Seljak , Hee-Jong Seo , Santiago Serrano , Arman Shafieloo , Huanyuan Shan , Ray Sharples , Michael J. Sholl , William V. Shourt , Joseph H. Silber , David R. Silva , Martin M. Sirk , Anze Slosar , Alex Smith , George F. Smoot , Debopam Som , Yong-Seon Song , David Sprayberry , Ryan Staten , Andy Stefanik , Gregory Tarle , Suk Sien Tie , Jeremy L. Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Francisco Valdes , Octavio Valenzuela , Monica Valluri , Mariana Vargas-Magana , Licia Verde , Alistair R. Walker , Jiali Wang , Yuting Wang , Benjamin A. Weaver , Curtis Weaverdyck , Risa H. Wechsler , David H. Weinberg , Martin White , Qian Yang , Christophe Yeche , Tianmeng Zhang , Gong-Bo Zhao , Yi Zheng , Xu Zhou , Zhimin Zhou , Yaling Zhu , Hu Zou , Ying Zu

We present the design for the first narrowband filter NB964 for the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which is operated on the 4m Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The NB964 filter profile is essentially defined by…

Using images taken with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), the first extensive survey of low mass and substellar objects is made in the 15-20 Myr Upper Centaurus Lupus (UCL) and Lower Centaurus Crux (LCC) subgroups of the Scorpius Centaurus OB…

[JDEM-Omega is one of the three concepts that contributed to the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission advocated by the Astro2010 Decadal Survey. It is the concept on which the recommended observatory configuration is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-31 Neil Gehrels

We introduce a pipeline that performs rapid image subtraction and source selection to detect transients, with a focus on identifying gravitational wave optical counterparts using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam). In this work, we present the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-27 Shenming Fu , Thomas Matheson , Aaron Meisner , Yuanyuan Zhang , Sebastián Vicencio , Destry Saul

The CCAT-prime project's first light array will be deployed in Mod-Cam, a single-module testbed and first light cryostat, on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in Chile's high Atacama desert in late 2022. FYST is a six-meter…

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is under construction to measure the expansion history of the Universe using the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation technique. The spectra of 35 million galaxies and quasars over 14000 square degrees…

The Physics of the Accelerating Universe (PAU) Survey is an international project for the study of cosmological parameters associated with Dark Energy. PAU's 18-CCD camera (PAUCam), installed at the prime focus of the William Herschel…