The Dark Energy Survey

Abstract

Dark Energy is the dominant constituent of the universe and we have little understanding of it. We describe a new project aimed at measuring the dark energy equation of state parameter, w, to a statistical precision of ~5% with four separate techniques. The survey will image 5000 deg 2 in the southern sky and collect 300 million galaxies, 30,000 galaxy clusters, and 2000 Type Ia supernovae. The survey will be carried out using a new 3 deg 2 mosaic camera mounted at the prime focus of the 4m Blanco telescope at CTIO.

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DOI

10.1142/s0217751x05025917

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