The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy – an overview

This overview paper describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the DES early data. DES is using a wide-field camera (DECam) on the 4 m Blanco Telescope in Chile to image 5000 sq deg of the sky...

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Published in:Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2016-08, Vol.460 (2), p.1270-1299
Main Authors: Allam, S., Amara, A., Bacon, D., Balbinot, E., Banerji, M., Bechtol, K., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Blazek, J., Bridle, S., Brunner, R. J., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Capozzi, D., Carlsen, J., Carollo, M., Carrasco-Kind, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Clerkin, L., Collett, T., Conselice, C., Crocce, M., Cunha, C. E., D'Andrea, C. B., da Costa, L. N., Davis, T. M., Desai, S., Dodelson, S., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Estrada, J., Evrard, A. E., Fabbri, J., Finley, D. A., Flaugher, B., Foley, R. J., Fosalba, P., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Goldstein, D. A., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W., Honscheid, K., Jain, B., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Jouvel, S., Kirk, D., Kron, R., Li, T. S., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., Makler, M., Manera, M., Marshall, J. L., McMahon, R. G., Melchior, P., Miller, C. J., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morice-Atkinson, X., Neilsen, E., Nichol, R. C., Ostrovski, F., Papadopoulos, A., Peoples, J., Percival, W. J., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rykoff, E. S., Sadeh, I., Sako, M., Sánchez, C., Sanchez, E., Santiago, B., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Sheldon, E., Smith, M., Smith, R. C., Soares-Santos, M., Soumagnac, M., Tarle, G., Thaler, J., Thomas, D., Thomas, R. C., Tucker, D., Wechsler, R. H., Weller, J., Wester, W., Whiteway, L., Wilcox, H., Yanny, B., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J.
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Language:English
Subjects:
Astrophysics
Dark energy
Dark matter
Milky Way Galaxy
Quasars
Sciences of the Universe
Sky surveys (astronomy)
Solar system
Star & galaxy formation
Supernovae
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