The dark energy spectrometer - A potential multi-fiber instrument for the Blanco 4-meter telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8446, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Marshall, J L ^a   Kent, Stephen M ^b,c   Diehl, H Thomas ^b   Flaugher, Brenna ^b   Frieman, Joshua ^b,c   Kron, Richard G ^b,c   DePoy, D L ^a   Colless, Matthew ^d   Saunders, Will ^d   Smith, Greg A ^d   Lahav, Ofer ^e   Abdalla, Filipe ^e   Brooks, David ^e   Doel, Peter ^e   Kirk, Donnacha ^e   Annis, James ^b   Lin, Huan ^b   Marriner, John P ^b   Jouvel, Stephanie ^f   Seiffert, Michael D ^g  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DE L ESPAI CSIC IEEC   (Spain)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark energy; Fiber spectrometers; Wide field spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DARK ENERGY; FIELD OF VIEWS; FOCAL PLANE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; PRELIMINARY DESIGN; PRIME-FOCUS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPECTROSCOPIC INSTRUMENT; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WIDE FIELD;

ASTROPHYSICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPECTROMETRY; TELESCOPES;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 84871982724     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.926451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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