NRAO/Socorro Colloquium Series
Darren DePoy
Texsa., A & M
The Dark Energy Survey
The physical origin of cosmic acceleration remains a mystery. The Dark Energy Survey (DES) will investigate the history of cosmic expansion and the growth of structure through four complementary techniques: galaxy clusters, large-scale galaxy clustering, weak gravitational lensing, and supernovae. The DES collaboration has built a new, 570-megapixel camera for the Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile to carry out a deep, wide-area sky survey of 300 million galaxies and a narrower, time-domain survey that will discover 4000 supernovae over 525 nights starting this year. The DES project saw first light in September 2012 and began survey operations at the end of August 2013. I will describe early results from commissioning and science verification of the instrument and discuss the plans and goals of the survey.
December 6,2013
11:00 am
Array Operations Center Auditorium
All NRAO employees are invited to attend via video, available in Charlottesville Room 230, Green Bank Room 137 and Tucson N525.
Local Host: Walter Max-Moerbeck
