Status of the Dark Energy Survey Camera (DECam) project Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration has completed construction of the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), a 3 square degree, 570 Megapixel CCD camera which will be mounted on the Blanco 4-meter telescope at CTIO. DECam will be used to perform the 5000 sq. deg. Dark Energy Survey with 30% of the telescope time over a 5 year period. During the remainder of the time, and after the survey, DECam will be available as a community instrument. All components of DECam have been shipped to Chile and post-shipping checkout finished in Jan. 2012. Installation is in progress. A summary of lessons learned and an update of the performance of DECam and the status of the DECam installation and commissioning will be presented. 2012 SPIE.

name of conference

  • Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV

published proceedings

  • Proceedings of SPIE

altmetric score

  • 4

author list (cited authors)

  • Flaugher, B. L., Abbott, T., Angstadt, R., Annis, J., Antonik, M. L., Bailey, J., ... Zhao, A.

citation count

  • 42

complete list of authors

  • Flaugher, Brenna L||Abbott, Timothy MC||Angstadt, Robert||Annis, Jim||Antonik, Michelle L||Bailey, Jim||Ballester, Otger||Bernstein, Joseph P||Bernstein, Rebecca A||Bonati, Marco||Bremer, Gale||Briones, Jorge||Brooks, David||Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth J||Campa, Juila||Cardiel-Sas, Laia||Castander, Francisco||Castilla, Javier||Cease, Herman||Chappa, Steve||Chi, Edward C||da Costa, Luis||DePoy, Darren L||Derylo, Gregory||de Vincente, Juan||Diehl, H Thomas||Doel, Peter||Estrada, Juan||Eiting, Jacob||Elliott, Anne E||Finley, David A||Flores, Rolando||Frieman, Josh||Gaztanaga, Enrique||Gerdes, David||Gladders, Mike||Guarino, V||Gutierrez, G||Grudzinski, Jim||Hanlon, Bill||Hao, Jiangang||Holland, Steve||Honscheid, Klaus||Huffman, Dave||Jackson, Cheryl||Jonas, Michelle||Karliner, Inga||Kau, Daekwang||Kent, Steve||Kozlovsky, Mark||Krempetz, Kurt||Krider, John||Kubik, Donna||Kuehn, Kyler||Kuhlmann, Steve E||Kuk, Kevin||Lahav, Ofer||Langellier, Nick||Lathrop, Andrew||Lewis, Peter M||Lin, Huan||Lorenzon, Wolfgang||Martinez, Gustavo||McKay, Timothy||Merritt, Wyatt||Meyer, Mark||Miquel, Ramon||Morgan, Jim||Moore, Peter||Moore, Todd||Neilsen, Eric||Nord, Brian||Ogando, Ricardo||Olson, Jamieson||Patton, Kenneth||Peoples, John||Plazas, Andres||Qian, Tao||Roe, Natalie||Roodman, Aaron||Rossetto, B||Sanchez, E||Soares-Santos, Marcelle||Scarpine, Vic||Schalk, Terry||Schindler, Rafe||Schmidt, Ricardo||Schmitt, Richard||Schubnell, Mike||Schultz, Kenneth||Selen, M||Serrano, Santiago||Shaw, Terri||Simaitis, Vaidas||Slaughter, Jean||Smith, R Christopher||Spinka, Hal||Stefanik, Andy||Stuermer, Walter||Sypniewski, Adam||Talaga, R||Tarle, Greg||Thaler, Jon||Tucker, Doug||Walker, Alistair R||Weaverdyck, Curtis||Wester, William||Woods, Robert J||Worswick, Sue||Zhao, Allen

editor list (cited editors)

  • McLean, I. S., Ramsay, S. K., & Takami, H.

publication date

  • September 2012