Transcript of The Dark Energy Survey The Big Questions The Discovery of Dark Energy The Dark Energy Survey – The...
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- The Dark Energy Survey The Big Questions The Discovery of Dark
Energy The Dark Energy Survey The telescope The camera The science
Expected Results
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- The Big Questions What is the universe made of? Where in the
universe are we? When in the universe are we? How does Fermilab
help with these questions?
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- What is the Universe Made Of?
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- Where are we in the Universe? Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a
spiral galaxy similar to this one (called M81). M81 is 12 Million
light years away. Arrow shows where our sun would be if this were
the Milky Way
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- How Far Weve Come Since 1920s In 1920, state of knowledge: our
galaxy = the universe, but contained many nebulae (fuzzy,
unresolved clouds) By 1929, Edwin Hubble had established that
nebulae were galaxies like ours, very far away AND that they were
almost all receding, at faster speeds if they were farther
away
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- How Far Weve Come Since 1920s In 1920, state of knowledge: our
galaxy = the universe, but contained many nebulae (fuzzy,
unresolved clouds) By 1929, Edwin Hubble had established that
nebulae were galaxies like ours, very far away AND that they were
almost all receding, at faster speeds if they were farther away
Edwin P. Hubble (1884-1953) (Grew up in Wheaton, IL U of C
graduate, also played basketball)
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- How Far Weve Come Since 1920s In 1920, state of knowledge: our
galaxy = the universe, but contained many nebulae (fuzzy,
unresolved clouds) By 1929, Edwin Hubble had established that
nebulae were galaxies like ours, very far away AND that they were
almost all receding, at faster speeds if they were farther away
Edwin P. Hubble (1884-1953) (Grew up in Wheaton, IL U of C
graduate, also played basketball) Hubble Space Telescope
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- How Far Weve Come Since 1920s In 1920, state of knowledge: our
galaxy = the universe, but contained many nebulae (fuzzy,
unresolved clouds) By 1929, Edwin Hubble had established that
nebulae were galaxies like ours, very far away AND that they were
almost all receding, at faster speeds if they were farther away
Edwin P. Hubble (1884-1953) (Grew up in Wheaton, IL U of C
graduate, also played basketball) Hubble Middle School
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- Where are we in the Universe?
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- 160 billion over entire sky 10,000 here
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- When are we in the Universe?
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- How Fermilab is helping answer these questions Matter at the
level of quarks and leptons CDF and D, ATLAS and CMS Neutrino
experiments (MINOS, MiniBooNe, Noa) Dark Matter searches CDMS,
COUPP, DAMIC CDF/D, ATLAS/CMS Dark Energy measurements Sloan
Digital Sky Survey (completed) Dark Energy Survey (being
constructed now)
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- How Dark Energy Was Discovered Supernovae: Standard Candles
Allow us to measure the expansion of the Universe as we look back
in time
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- How Dark Energy Was Discovered Supernovae: Standard Candles
Allow us to measure the expansion of the Universe as we look back
in time Image courtesy of David A Hardy
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- How Dark Energy Was Discovered Supernovae: Standard Candles
Allow us to measure the expansion of the Universe as we look back
in time Image courtesy of David A Hardy
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- The Dark Energy Survey
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- What is the Dark Energy Survey? Will survey 5000 square degrees
of the Southern Hemisphere sky, repeatedly using different filters
to capture different wavelengths of light Will take images of more
than 300,000,000 galaxies, reaching back to a redshift of 1.3 (~7.7
billion years for the light to reach us from the farthest galaxies
we will see)
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- Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory Altitude 2215 m Climate
dry and mild among the best sites for astronomical observation
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- The Blanco Telescope
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- The mirror is 4 m in diameter, made of a single piece of Cervit
glass Here the mirror is being removed for re-aluminization
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- Popular Science, September 1969
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- The Dark Energy Camera Imager
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- DECam Imager A 520Million pixel digital camera Has a
3-square-degree field of view Contains 74 CCDs which need to be
operated in a vacuum and at a temperature of -100 degrees C Uses
custom built very-low-noise readout electronics Each image taken by
the camera is 1 GigaByte in size
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- DECam Imager A 520M pixel digital camera Has a 3-square-degree
field of view Contains 74 CCDs which need to be operated in a
vacuum and at a temperature of -100 degrees C Uses custom built
very-low-noise readout electronics Each image taken by the camera
is 1 GB in size DECam Focal Plane
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- DECam Imager A 520M pixel digital camera Has a 3-square-degree
field of view Contains 74 CCDs which need to be operated in a
vacuum and at a temperature of -100 degrees C Uses custom built
very-low-noise readout electronics Each image taken by the camera
is 1 GB in size Prototype Imager
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- DECam CCDs Each CCD: 4K x 2K pixels Converts light to charge
Charge from each pixel is moved along the chip and read out
sequentially Very efficient for red/ infrared light (design by
LBNL)
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- The Dark Energy Camera Optical Corrector
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- DECam Optical Corrector C1 C2 & C3 C4 C5 Filter-changer and
shutter chamber (two filters shown) C1 cover Internal stray light
baffle Electrical isolator
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- DECam Optical Corrector Contains 5 fused silica lenses largest
is about 1 m in diameter The lenses are carefully designed to
produce the best focused image at the location of the plane of CCDs
They have taken about two years to manufacture
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- DECam Optical Corrector Contains 5 fused silica lenses largest
is about 1 m in diameter The lenses are carefully designed to
produce the best focused image at the location of the plane of CCDs
They have taken about two years to manufacture
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- Focusing the Camera Hexapod positions camera in 1 micron steps
Camera weighs ~8000 lbs
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- Testing DECam We will place the camera in a specially built
stand to tilt and rotate it Allows us to verify operation in all
orientations before shipping it to Chile
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- The Testing Stand for DECam
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- Fixtures for Mounting Imager on the Telescope
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- How does the survey work? Take data for about 100 nights each
year for 5 years (the survey area is visible from Oct-Feb) Obtain
about 300 images per night Send data to NCSA at Univ of Illinois
for processing Raw dataset: ~150,000 images Processed dataset: >
1 petabyte of data
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- Science with DECam We expect to identify 300,000,000 galaxies,
30000 galaxy clusters and 2000 new supernovae Identify distance for
each galaxy and supernova by comparing its light intensity in the 5
different DECam filters (For some fraction of objects, get more
precise distance measurement using other telescopes)
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- Science with DECam The supernovae will give us an independent
measure of expansion with a new dataset, similar to what other
surveys have done but out to a larger distance How the density of
galaxies varies with distance will also tell us how the metric of
the universe has changed over time, and thus whether the expansion
we see has been constant over that time
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- Science with DECam contd Look for bending of light from distant
sources around massive galaxy clusters which are closer to us
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- Systematic Errors Worry about effects of dust causing supernova
to be less standard Worry about correctly identifying and measuring
the distance for very faint galaxies Worry about correcting for the
effects of changes in the instrument over time Worry about effects
from the atmosphere
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- Results: A measurement of Dark Energy which is ~ 5 times better
than current measurements
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- Further results A very capable instrument on a fine telescope
at an excellent site A library of 300,000,000 astronomical objects
available for other scientific studies Can be correlated with
results from other instruments
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- Further results A very capable instrument on a fine telescope
at an excellent site A library of 300,000,000 astronomical objects
available for other scientific studies Can be correlated with
results from other instruments