Status of the Dark Energy Survey Camera (DECam) Project

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8446, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Flaugher, Brenna L ^a   Abbott, Timothy M C ^b   Angstadt, Robert ^a   Annis, Jim ^a   Antonik, Michelle L ^h   Bailey, Jim ^c   Ballester, Otger ^k   Bernstein, Joseph P ^c   Bernstein, Rebbeca ^m   Bonati, Marco ^b   Bremer, Gale ^b   Briones, Jorge ^b   Brooks, David ^h   Buckley Geer, Elizabeth J ^a   Campa, Juila ^l   Cardiel Sas, Laia ^k   Castander, Franciso ^q   Castilla, Javier ^l   Cease, Herman ^a   Chappa, Steve ^a   Chi, Edward C ^a   Da Costa, Luis ^p   DePoy, Darren L ^d   Derylo, Gregory ^a   De Vicente, Juan ^l   Diehl, H Thomas ^a   Doel, Peter ^h   Estrada, Juan ^a   Eiting, Jacob ^g   Elliott, Anne E ^g   Finley, David A ^a   Flores, Rolando ^a   Frieman, Josh ⁿ   Gaztanaga, Enrique ^q   Gerdes, David ^e   Gladders, Mike ^a,n   Guarino, V ^c   Gutierrez, G ^a   Grudzinski, Jim ^c   Hanlon, Bill ^f   Hao, Jiangang ^a   Holland, Steve ⁱ   Honscheid, Klaus ^g   Huffman, Dave ^a   Jackson, Cheryl ^a   Jonas, Michelle ^a   Karliner, Inga ^f   Kau, Daekwang ^f   Kent, Steve ^a   Kozlovsky, Mark ^a   Krempetz, Kurt ^a   Krider, John ^a   Kubik, Donna ^a   Kuehn, Kyler W ^c   Kuhlmann, Stephen E ^c   Kuk, Kevin ^a   Lahav, Ofer ^h   Langellier, Nick ^f   Lathrop, Andrew ^a   Lewis, Peter M ^k   Lin, Huan ^a   Lorenzon, Wolfgang ^e   Martínez, Gustavo ^l   McKay, Timothy ^e   Merritt, Wyatt ^a   Meyer, Mark ^f   Miquel, Ramon ^k   Morgan, Jim ^c   Moore, Peter ^b   Moore, Todd ^f   Neilsen, Eric ^a   Nord, Brian ^e   Ogando, R ^p   Olsen, Jamieson ^a   Patton, Kenneth ^h   Peoples, John ^a   Plazas, Andres ^o   Qian, Tao ^f   Roe, Natalie ⁱ   Roodman, Aaron ^j   Rossetto, B ^p   Sanchez, E ^l   Soares Santos, Marcelle ^a   Scarpine, Vic ^a   Schalk, Terry ^m   Schindler, Rafe ^j   Schmidt, Ricardo ^b   Schmitt, Richard ^a   Schubnell, Mike ^e   Schultz, Kenneth ^a   Selen, M ^f   Serrano, Santiago ^p   Shaw, Terri ^a   Simaitis, Vaidis ^f   Slaughter, Jean ^a   Smith, R Christopher ^b   Spinka, Hal ^c   Stefanik, Andy ^a   Stuermer, Walter ^a   Sypniewski, Adam ^e   Talaga, Rick ^c   Tarle, Greg ^e   Thaler, Jon ^f   Tucker, Doug ^a   Walker, Alistair R ^b   Weaverdyck, Curtis ^e   Wester, William ^a   Woods, Robert J ^a   Worswick, Sue ^h   Zhao, Allen ^c   more..

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^g OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^l CIEMAT   (Spain)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^p OBSERVATÓRIO NACIONAL   (Brazil)

^q CSIC   (Spain)

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Author keywords

Blanco; Camera; CCD; CTIO; Dark energy; Imaging; Survey

Indexed keywords

BLANCO; CTIO; DARK ENERGY; MEGA-PIXEL;

ASTROPHYSICS; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SURVEYS; TELESCOPES;

CCD CAMERAS;

EID: 84871995582     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.926216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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