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Development of decay energy spectroscopy for radio impurity analysis

We present the development of a decay energy spectroscopy (DES) method for the analysis of radioactive impurities using magnetic microcalorimeters (MMCs). The DES system was designed to analyze radionuclides, such as Ra-226, Th-228, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-12-06 J. S. Chung , O. Gileva , C. Ha , J. A Jeon , H. B. Kim , H. L. Kim , Y. H. Kim , H. J. Kim , M. B Kim , D. H. Kwon , D. S. Leonard , D. Y. Lee , Y. C. Lee , H. S. Lim , K. R. Woo , J. Y. Yang

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: likelihood-free, simulation-based $w$CDM inference with neural compression of weak-lensing map statistics

We present simulation-based cosmological $w$CDM inference using Dark Energy Survey Year 3 weak-lensing maps, via neural data compression of weak-lensing map summary statistics: power spectra, peak counts, and direct map-level…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 N. Jeffrey , L. Whiteway , M. Gatti , J. Williamson , J. Alsing , A. Porredon , J. Prat , C. Doux , B. Jain , C. Chang , T. -Y. Cheng , T. Kacprzak , P. Lemos , A. Alarcon , A. Amon , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , R. Chen , A. Choi , J. DeRose , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , S. Everett , A. Ferté , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , K. Herner , M. Jarvis , J. McCullough , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Pandey , M. Raveri , R. P. Rollins , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , B. Yanny , B. Yin , J. Zuntz , M. Aguena , S. S. Allam , O. Alves , D. Bacon , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , I. Ferrero , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , O. Lahav , S. Lee , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. L. Tucker , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller , P. Wiseman , M. Yamamoto

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Methodology and Projections for Joint Analysis of Galaxy Clustering, Galaxy Lensing, and CMB Lensing Two-point Functions

Optical imaging surveys measure both the galaxy density and the gravitational lensing-induced shear fields across the sky. Recently, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration used a joint fit to two-point correlations between these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 E. J. Baxter , Y. Omori , C. Chang , T. Giannantonio , D. Kirk , E. Krause , J. Blazek , L. Bleem , A. Choi , T. M. Crawford , S. Dodelson , T. F. Eifler , O. Friedrich , D. Gruen , G. P. Holder , B. Jain , M. Jarvis , N. MacCrann , A. Nicola , S. Pandey , J. Prat , C. L. Reichardt , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , L. F. Secco , E. Sheldon , M. A. Troxel , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , J. Annis , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , B. A. Benson , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. Hollowood , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , S. Kent , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , A. A. Plazas , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sanchez , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , A. R. Walker , W. L. K. Wu , J. Weller

High-quality Extragalactic Legacy-field Monitoring (HELM) with DECam

High-quality Extragalactic Legacy-field Monitoring (HELM) is a long-term observing program that photometrically monitors several well-studied extragalactic legacy fields with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) imager on the CTIO 4m Blanco…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-12 Ming-Yang Zhuang , Qian Yang , Yue Shen , Monika Adamow , Douglas N. Friedel , R. A. Gruendl , Xin Liu , Paul Martini , Timothy M. C. Abbott , Scott F. Anderson , Roberto J. Assef , Franz E. Bauer , Rich Bielby , W. N. Brandt , Colin J. Burke , Jorge Casares , Yu-Ching Chen , Gisella De Rosa , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Tom Dwelly , Alice Eltvedt , Gloria Fonseca Alvarez , Jianyang Fu , Cesar Fuentes , Melissa L. Graham , Catherine J. Grier , Nathan Golovich , Patrick B. Hall , Patrick Hartigan , Keith Horne , Anton M. Koekemoer , Mirko Krumpe , Jennifer I. Li , Chris Lidman , Umang Malik , Amelia Mangian , Andrea Merloni , Claudio Ricci , Mara Salvato , Rob Sharp , Zachary Stone , David E. Trilling , Brad E. Tucker , Di Wen , Zachary Wideman , Yongquan Xue , Zhefu Yu , Catherine Zucker

Inflation and Early Dark Energy with a Stage II Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment

This white paper envisions a revolutionary post-DESI, post-LSST dark energy program based on intensity mapping of the redshifted 21cm emission line from neutral hydrogen at radio frequencies. The proposed intensity mapping survey has the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-01 Cosmic Visions 21 cm Collaboration , Réza Ansari , Evan J. Arena , Kevin Bandura , Philip Bull , Emanuele Castorina , Tzu-Ching Chang , Shi-Fan Chen , Liam Connor , Simon Foreman , Josef Frisch , Daniel Green , Matthew C. Johnson , Dionysios Karagiannis , Adrian Liu , Kiyoshi W. Masui , P. Daniel Meerburg , Moritz Münchmeyer , Laura B. Newburgh , Andrej Obuljen , Paul O'Connor , Hamsa Padmanabhan , J. Richard Shaw , Christopher Sheehy , Anže Slosar , Kendrick Smith , Paul Stankus , Albert Stebbins , Peter Timbie , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Benjamin Wallisch , Martin White

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: simulation-based cosmological inference with wavelet harmonics, scattering transforms, and moments of weak lensing mass maps II. Cosmological results

We present a simulation-based cosmological analysis using a combination of Gaussian and non-Gaussian statistics of the weak lensing mass (convergence) maps from the first three years (Y3) of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We implement: 1)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-20 M. Gatti , G. Campailla , N. Jeffrey , L. Whiteway , A. Porredon , J. Prat , J. Williamson , M. Raveri , B. Jain , V. Ajani , G. Giannini , M. Yamamoto , C. Zhou , J. Blazek , D. Anbajagane , S. Samuroff , T. Kacprzak , A. Alarcon , A. Amon , K. Bechtol , M. Becker , G. Bernstein , A. Campos , C. Chang , R. Chen , A. Choi , C. Davis , J. Derose , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferte , D. Gruen , R. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , E. M. Huff , M. Jarvis , N. Kuropatkin , P. F. Leget , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Pandey , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , C. Sanchez , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. S. Allam , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , D. Bacon , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , I. Ferrero , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , M. Schubnell , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller , P. Wiseman

CMB lensing tomography with the DES Science Verification galaxies

We measure the cross-correlation between the galaxy density in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Science Verification data and the lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as reconstructed with the Planck satellite and the South Pole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-19 T. Giannantonio , P. Fosalba , R. Cawthon , Y. Omori , M. Crocce , F. Elsner , B. Leistedt , S. Dodelson , A. Benoit-Levy , E. Gaztanaga , G. Holder , H. V. Peiris , W. J. Percival , D. Kirk , A. H. Bauer , B. A. Benson , G. M. Bernstein , J. Carretero , T. M. Crawford , R. Crittenden , D. Huterer , B. Jain , E. Krause , C. L. Reichardt , A. J. Ross , G. Simard , B. Soergel , A. Stark , K. T. Story , J. D. Vieira , J. Weller , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , R. Armstrong , M. Banerji , R. A. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , D. Capozzi , J. E. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , F. J. Castander , C. L. Chang , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. B. D'Andrea , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , D. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , B. R. Saliwanchik , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Zuntz

Probing dark energy using convergence power spectrum and bi-spectrum

Weak lensing convergence statistics is a powerful tool to probe dark energy. Dark energy plays an important role to the structure formation and the effects can be detected through the convergence power spectrum, bi-spectrum etc. One of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-26 Bikash R. Dinda

Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

In 2021 May the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration began a 5-year spectroscopic redshift survey to produce a detailed map of the evolving three-dimensional structure of the universe between $z=0$ and $z\approx4$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 DESI Collaboration , M. Abdul Karim , A. G. Adame , D. Aguado , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Alam , G. Aldering , D. M. Alexander , R. Alfarsy , L. Allen , C. Allende Prieto , O. Alves , A. Anand , U. Andrade , E. Armengaud , S. Avila , A. Aviles , H. Awan , S. Bailey , A. Baleato Lizancos , O. Ballester , A. Bault , J. Bautista , R. Bean , J. Behera , S. BenZvi , L. Beraldo e Silva , J. R. Bermejo-Climent , F. Beutler , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , R. Blum , A. S. Bolton , M. Bonici , S. Brieden , A. Brodzeller , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , E. Burtin , A. Byström , R. Canning , A. Carnero Rosell , A. Carr , P. Carrilho , L. Casas , F. J. Castander , R. Cereskaite , J. L. Cervantes-Cota , E. Chaussidon , J. Chaves-Montero , S. Chen , X. Chen , C. Circosta , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. P. Cooper , M. -C. Cousinou , A. Cuceu , T. M. Davis , K. S. Dawson , R. de Belsunce , R. de la Cruz , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , N. Deiosso , J. Della Costa , R. Demina , U. Demirbozan , J. DeRose , A. Dey , B. Dey , J. Ding , Z. Ding , P. Doel , K. Douglass , M. Dowicz , H. Ebina , J. Edelstein , D. J. Eisenstein , W. Elbers , N. Emas , S. Escoffier , P. Fagrelius , X. Fan , K. Fanning , G. Favole , V. A. Fawcett , E. Fernández-García , S. Ferraro , N. Findlay , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Forero-Romero , D. Forero-Sánchez , C. S. Frenk , B. T. Gänsicke , L. Galbany , J. García-Bellido , C. Garcia-Quintero , L. H. Garrison , E. Gaztañaga , H. Gil-Marín , A. Gloudemans , O. Y. Gnedin , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , D. Gonzalez , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , V. Gonzalez-Perez , C. Gordon , O. Graur , D. Green , D. Gruen , R. Gsponer , C. Guandalin , G. Gutierrez , J. Guy , C. Hahn , J. J. Han , J. Han , S. He , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , S. Heydenreich , K. Honscheid , J. Hou , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , V. Iršič , M. Ishak , A. Jacques , L. Jiang , J. Jimenez , Y. P. Jing , B. Joachimi , S. Joudaki , R. Joyce , E. Jullo , S. Juneau , N. G. Karaçaylı , T. Karim , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , A. Khederlarian , D. Kirkby , T. Kisner , F. -S. Kitaura , N. Kizhuprakkat , H. Kong , S. E. Koposov , A. Kremin , A. Krolewski , O. Lahav , Y. Lai , C. Lamman , T. -W. Lan , M. Landriau , D. Lang , J. U. Lange , J. Lasker , J. M. Le Goff , L. Le Guillou , A. Leauthaud , M. E. Levi , S. Li , T. S. Li , W. Liu , K. Lodha , M. Lokken , Y. Luo , Y. Luo , C. Magneville , M. Manera , C. J. Manser , D. Margala , P. Martini , M. Maus , J. McCullough , P. McDonald , G. E. Medina , L. Medina-Varela , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , A. Menegas , J. Meneses-Rizo , M. Mezcua , R. Miquel , P. Montero-Camacho , J. Moon , J. Moustakas , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , D. Muñoz-Santos , A. D. Myers , J. Myles , S. Nadathur , J. Najita , L. Napolitano , J. A. Newman , F. Nikakhtar , R. Nikutta , G. Niz , H. E. Noriega , P. Nugent , N. Padmanabhan , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , A. Palmese , J. Pan , Z. Pan , D. Parkinson , J. A. Peacock , M. P. Ibanez , W. J. Percival , A. Pérez-Fernández , I. Pérez-Ràfols , P. Peterson , J. Piat , M. M. Pieri , M. Pinon , C. Poppett , A. Porredon , F. Prada , R. Pucha , F. Qin , D. Rabinowitz , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , S. Ramirez-Solano , M. Rashkovetskyi , C. Ravoux , B. Ried Guachalla , A. H. Riley , A. Rocher , C. Rockosi , J. Rohlf , A. J. Rosado-Marín , A. J. Ross , C. Ross , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , C. G. Sabiu , K. Said , N. Sailer , A. Saintonge , Y. Salcedo Hernandez , L. Samushia , E. Sanchez , N. Sanders , N. Sandford , S. Satyavolu , C. Saulder , A. K. Saydjari , E. F. Schlafly , D. Schlegel , D. Scholte , M. Schubnell , A. Semenaite , H. Seo , A. Shafieloo , R. Sharples , J. Silber , F. Sinigaglia , M. Siudek , Z. Slepian , A. Smith , M. Soumagnac , D. Sprayberry , J. Suárez-Pérez , J. Swanson , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , P. Taylor , G. Thomas , R. Tojeiro , R. J. Turner , W. Turner , L. A. Ureña-López , R. Vaisakh , M. Valluri , G. Valogiannis , M. Vargas-Magaña , L. Verde , P. Vielzeuf , M. Walther , B. Wang , M. S. Wang , W. Wang , B. A. Weaver , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , D. H. Weinberg , M. White , A. Whitford , M. Wolfson , J. Yang , C. Yèche , S. Youles , J. Yu , S. Yuan , E. A. Zaborowski , P. Zarrouk , H. Zhang , C. Zhao , R. Zhao , Z. Zheng , C. Zhou , R. Zhou , Y. Zhou , H. Zou , S. Zou , Y. Zu

An optical test bench for the precision characterization of absolute quantum efficiency for the TESS CCD detectors

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will search for planets transiting bright stars with Ic<13. TESS has been selected by NASA for launch in 2018 as an Astrophysics Explorer mission, and is expected to discover a thousand or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-22 Akshata Krishnamurthy , Joel Villasenor , Steve Kissel , George Ricker , Roland Vanderspek

Exploring New Physics Beyond the Standard Cosmology with Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Data

With the recent data from the first year of the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y1), we attempt to probe whether there is new physics beyond the standard cosmology and to reconcile the $\sigma_8$ tension between the DES Y1 and Planck datasets in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-26 Deng Wang

Probing Dark Energy with the Kunlun Dark Universe Survey Telescope

Dark energy is an important science driver of many upcoming large-scale surveys. With small, stable seeing and low thermal infrared background, Dome A, Antarctica, offers a unique opportunity for shedding light on fundamental questions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Gong-Bo Zhao , Hu Zhan , Lifan Wang , Zuhui Fan , Xinmin Zhang

DESI Bright Galaxy Survey: Final Target Selection, Design, and Validation

Over the next five years, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will use 10 spectrographs with 5000 fibers on the 4m Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory to conduct the first Stage-IV dark energy galaxy survey. At $z…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 ChangHoon Hahn , Michael J. Wilson , Omar Ruiz-Macias , Shaun Cole , David H. Weinberg , John Moustakas , Anthony Kremin , Jeremy L. Tinker , Alex Smith , Risa H. Wechsler , Steven Ahlen , Shadab Alam , Stephen Bailey , David Brooks , Andrew P. Cooper , Tamara M. Davis , Kyle Dawson , Arjun Dey , Biprateep Dey , Sarah Eftekharzadeh , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Kevin Fanning , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Carlos S. Frenk , Enrique Gaztañaga , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Julien Guy , Klaus Honscheid , Mustapha Ishak , Stéphanie Juneau , Robert Kehoe , Theodore Kisner , Ting-Wen Lan , Martin Landriau , Laurent Le Guillou , Michael E. Levi , Christophe Magneville , Paul Martini , Aaron Meisner , Adam D. Myers , Jundan Nie , Peder Norberg , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Will J. Percival , Claire Poppett , Francisco Prada , Anand Raichoor , Ashley J. Ross , Sasha Safonova , Christoph Saulder , Eddie Schlafly , David Schlegel , David Sierra-Porta , Gregory Tarle , Benjamin A. Weaver , Christophe Yèche , Pauline Zarrouk , Rongpu Zhou , Zhimin Zhou , Hu Zou

Deep Learning at Scale for the Construction of Galaxy Catalogs in the Dark Energy Survey

The scale of ongoing and future electromagnetic surveys pose formidable challenges to classify astronomical objects. Pioneering efforts on this front include citizen science campaigns adopted by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). SDSS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-09 Asad Khan , E. A. Huerta , Sibo Wang , Robert Gruendl , Elise Jennings , Huihuo Zheng

Exploring dark matter microphysics with galaxy surveys

We use present cosmological observations and forecasts of future experiments to illustrate the power of large-scale structure (LSS) surveys in probing dark matter (DM) microphysics and unveiling potential deviations from the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-01 Miguel Escudero , Olga Mena , Aaron C. Vincent , Ryan J. Wilkinson , Celine Boehm

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Calibration of Lens Sample Redshift Distributions using Clustering Redshifts with BOSS/eBOSS

We present clustering redshift measurements for Dark Energy Survey (DES) lens sample galaxies to be used in weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering studies. To perform this measurement, we cross-correlate with spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-09 R. Cawthon , J. Elvin-Poole , A. Porredon , M. Crocce , G. Giannini , M. Gatti , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , A. Carnero Rosell , J. DeRose , S. Lee , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. Amon , K. Bechtol , J. De Vicente , D. Gruen , R. Morgan , E. Sanchez , J. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , S. Avila , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , A. Choi , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , K. Dawson , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , K. Eckert , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , A. G. Kim , J. -P. Kneib , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Palmese , S. Pandey , F. Paz-Chinchón , W. J. Percival , A. A. Plazas , A. Roodman , G. Rossi , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , C. To , M. A. Troxel , R. D. Wilkinson , the DES Collaboration

Destiny: A Candidate Architecture for the Joint Dark Energy Mission

Destiny is a simple, direct, low cost mission to determine the properties of dark energy by obtaining a cosmologically deep supernova (SN) type Ia Hubble diagram. Operated at L2, its science instrument is a 1.65m space telescope, featuring…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dominic J. Benford , Tod R. Lauer

The One-hundred-deg^2 DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN): Survey Design and Science Goals

We describe the survey design and science goals for ODIN (One-hundred-deg^2 DECam Imaging in Narrowbands), a NOIRLab survey using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) to obtain deep (AB~25.7) narrow-band images over an unprecedented area of sky.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-20 Kyoung-Soo Lee , Eric Gawiser , Changbom Park , Yujin Yang , Francisco Valdes , Dustin Lang , Vandana Ramakrishnan , Byeongha Moon , Nicole Firestone , Stephen Appleby , Maria Celeste Artale , Moira Andrews , Franz E. Bauer , Barbara Benda , Adam Broussard , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Robin Ciardullo , Arjun Dey , Rameen Farooq , Caryl Gronwall , Lucia Guaita , Yun Huang , Ho Seong Hwang , Sanghyeok Im , Woong-Seob Jeong , Shreya Karthikeyan , Hwihyun Kim , Seongjae Kim , Gautam Nagaraj , Julie Nantais , Nelson Padilla , Jaehong Park , Alexandra Pope , Roxana Popescu , David J. Schlegel , Eunsuk Seo , Akriti Singh , Hyunmi Song , Paulina Troncoso , A. Katherina Vivas , Ann Zabludoff , Alfredo Zenteno

Tests of Evolving Dark Energy with Geometric Probes of the Late-Time Universe

Recent results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) have shown a strong statistical preference for a time-evolving dark energy model over $\Lambda$CDM when combining BAO, CMB, and supernova (SN) data. We investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-02 Kunhao Zhong , Bhuvnesh Jain

Design for the First Narrowband Filter for the Dark Energy Camera: Optimizing the LAGER Survey for z ~ 7 Galaxies

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Zhen-Ya Zheng , James E. Rhoads , Junxian Wang , Sangeeta Malhotra , Alistair Walker , Thomas Mooney , Chunyan Jiang , Weida Hu , Pascale Hibon , Linhua Jiang , Leopoldo Infante , L. Felipe Barrientos , Gaspar Galaz , Francisco Valdes , William Wester , Huan Yang , Alicia Coughlin , Santosh Harish , Wenyong Kang , Ali Ahmad Khostovan , Xu Kong , Lucia A. Perez , John Pharo , Isak Wold , XianZhong Zheng