The dark energy survey and operations: Year 1

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9149, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Diehl, H T ^a   Abbott, T M C ^b   Annis, J ^a   Armstrong, R ^c   Baruah, L ^d   Bermeo, A ^d   Bernstein, G ^c   Beynon, E ^e   Bruderer, C ^f   Buckley Geer, E J ^a   Campbell, H ^e   Capozzi, D ^e   Carter, M ^d   Casas, R ^g   Clerkin, L ^h   Covarrubias, R ⁱ   Cuhna, C ^j   D'Andrea, C ^e   Da Costa, L ^k   Das, R ^l   Depoy, D L ^m   Dietrich, J ^n,o   Drlica Wagner, A ^a   Elliott, A ^p   Eifler, T ^c   Estrada, J ^a   Etherington, J ^e   Flaugher, B L ^a   Frieman, J ^a   Fausti Neto, A ^k   Gelman, M ⁱ   Gerdes, D ^l   Gruen, D ^n,q   Gruendl, R ⁱ   Hao, J ^a   Head, H ^r   Helsby, J ^s   Hoffman, K ^g   Honscheid, K ^p   James, D ^b   Johnson, M ⁱ   Kacprzac, T ^h   Katsaros, J ^d   Kennedy, R ^d   Kent, S ^a   Kessler, R ^s   Kim, A ^t   Krause, E ^c   Kron, R ^a   Kuhlmann, S ^u   Kunder, A ^b   Li, T ^m   Lin, H ^a   Maccrann, N ^v   March, M ^c   Marshall, J ^m   Neilsen, E ^a   Nugent, P ^t   Martini, P ^p   Melchior, P ^o,p   Menanteau, F ⁱ   Nichol, R C ^e   Nord, B ^a   Ogando, R ^k,w   Old, L ^x   Papadopoulos, A ^e   Patton, K ^p   Petravick, D ⁱ   Plazas, A A ^y   Poulton, R ^d   Pujol, A ^g   Reil, K ^j   Rigby, T ^d   Romer, A ^d   Roodman, A ^j   Rooney, P ^d   Sanchez Alvaro, E ^z   Serrano, S ^g   Sheldon, E ^y   Smith, A ^r   Smith, R C ^b   Soares Santos, M ^a   Soumagnac, M ^h   Spinka, H ^u   Suchyta, E ^p   Tucker, D ^a   Walker, A R ^b   Wester, W ^a   Wiesner, M ^a   Wilcox, H ^e   Williams, R ^d   Yanny, B ^a   Zhang, Y Y ^l   more..

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d Dept of Physics and Astronomy ^*  (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^j STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k LABORATÓRIO INTERINSTITUCIONAL DE E ASTRONOMIA LINEA   (Brazil)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^m TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^o EXCELLENCE CLUSTER UNIVERSE   (Germany)

^p OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^r AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^t LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^u ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^w OBSERVATÓRIO NACIONAL   (Brazil)

^x UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^y BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^z CIEMAT   (Spain)

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Author keywords

Cosmology; CTIO; Dark Energy Camera; Dark Energy Survey; Operations

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; CCD CAMERAS; COSMOLOGY; OBSERVATORIES; SUPERNOVAE;

ACOUSTIC OSCILLATION; COMPLEMENTARY METHODS; CTIO; DARK ENERGY; EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE; OPERATIONS; SUPERNOVA SURVEYS; WEAK GRAVITATIONAL LENSING;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84922620752     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2056982     Document Type: Conference Paper

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