DUNE: The Dark Universe Explorer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6265 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Réfrégier, Alexandre ^a   Boulade, Olivier ^a   Mellier, Yannick ^b   Milliard, Bruno ^c   Pain, Reynald ^d   Michaud, Joel ^e   Safa, Frédéric ^f   Amara, Adam ^a   Astier, Pierre ^d   Barrelet, Etienne ^d   Bertin, Emmanuel ^b   Boulade, Sébastien ^f   Cara, Christophe ^a   Claret, Arnaud ^a   Georges, Laurent ^f   Grange, Robert ^c   Guy, Julien ^d   Koeck, Charles ^f   Kroely, Laurent ^d   Magneville, Christophe ^g   Palanque Delabrouille, Nathalie ^g   Regnault, Nicolas ^d   Smadja, Gérard ^h   Schimd, Carlo ^g   Sun, Zhihong ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^e CNES   (France)

^f AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

^g CEA SACLAY   (France)

^h UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

CCD detectors; Dark energy; Dark matter; Drift scan; Korsch telescope; Supernovae; Weak lensing; Wide field imaging

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COSTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SURVEYING;

CCD DETECTORS; DARK ENERGY; DARK MATTER; DRIFT SCAN; KORSCH TELESCOPE; SUPERNOVAE; WEAK LENSING; WIDE FIELD IMAGING;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 33749022786     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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