Dark Energy Survey I. Participating Institutions

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Dark Energy Survey I.Participating Institutions

• Fermilab
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of Chicago
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• University of Michigan
• NOAO/CTIO
• Spain-DES Collaboration
• Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya
  (IEEC/ICE), Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies
  (IFAE), CIEMAT-Madrid
• United Kingdom-DES Collaboration
• University College London, University of
  Cambridge, University of Edinburgh, University of
  Portsmouth, University of Sussex
• The University of Pennsylvania
• Brazil-DES Consortium
• The Ohio State University
• Argonne National Laboratory
• 12 participating institutions and gt100
  participants
• DES Funding from DOE, NSF, STFC (UK), MEC
  (Spain), FINEP (Brazil), and the Collaborating
  Institutions

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Dark Energy Survey II.The DECam Instrument goes
on the Blanco Telescope
CCD Readout
Filters Shutter
Hexapod
Optical Lenses
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Dark Energy Survey III.Imaging
DECam Focal Plane
Will contain 62 2kx4k Image CCDs 520
megapixels
First astronomical image with one DECam 2kx4k
CCDand prototype readout electronics April 2008
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Dark Energy Survey IV.Approval Status and
Schedule
Funding approved for start of construction by
DOE, MEC (Spain), NSF, STFC (UK)and the
collaborating institutions.
DECam received CD-2 Approval Apr 29 CD-3a
Approval May 19 (for 2.1M in long-lead
procurements)
Camera scheduled to arrive at CTIO Observatory in
Chile December 2010
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Dark Energy Survey V.Science

• Dark Energy constraints expected from full survey

• Strong lensing studies from Fermilab Cosmology
  Analysis Group using SDSS other data
• Find and measure strongly lensed galaxies
• Use lens models, fit for Einstein Radius and Mass