Massive Redshift Surveys and First Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

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Date 23.09.2024
Hour 16:1517:15
Speaker Dr David Schlegel, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Location Online
Category Conferences - Seminars
Event Language English

 The current generation of redshift surveys will provide three-dimensional maps of the Universe with tens of millions of galaxies spanning much of the observable universe.  These maps explore physics beyond the standard model, including the physics of dark energy and early universe inflation.
  I will present measurements of cosmic expansion and dark energy from the first year of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).  DESI is mapping the sky with a 5000-fiber robotic focal plane and 10 optical spectrographs.  I will describe the design of the instrument, the survey, and the analysis of the first 5 million galaxies and quasars.
 

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  • General public
  • Free

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  • Institut de Physique

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