The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

Brenna Flaugher; Chris Bebek

doi:10.1117/12.2057105

18 July 2014 The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

Brenna Flaugher, Chris Bebek

Proceedings Volume 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V; 91470S (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057105
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure through redshift-space distortions with a wide-area galaxy and quasar spectroscopic redshift survey. The DESI instrument consists of a new wide-field (3.2 deg. linear field of view) corrector plus a multi-object spectrometer with up to 5000 robotically positioned optical fibers and will be installed at prime focus on the Mayall 4m telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona. The fibers feed 10 three-arm spectrographs producing spectra that cover a wavelength range from 360-980 nm and have resolution of 2000-5500 depending on the wavelength. The DESI instrument is designed for a 14,000 sq. deg. multi-year survey of targets that trace the evolution of dark energy out to redshift 3.5 using the redshifts of luminous red galaxies (LRGs), emission line galaxies (ELGs) and quasars. DESI is the successor to the successful Stage-III BOSS spectroscopic redshift survey and complements imaging surveys such as the Stage-III Dark Energy Survey (DES, currently operating) and the Stage-IV Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST, planned start early in the next decade).

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Brenna Flaugher and Chris Bebek "The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)", Proc. SPIE 9147, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V, 91470S (18 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057105

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