Status of the dark energy survey camera (DECam) project Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration is building the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), a 3 square degree, 520 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. Construction of DECam is well underway. Integration and testing of the major system components has already begun at Fermilab and the collaborating institutions. 2010 Copyright SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.

name of conference

  • Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III

published proceedings

  • Proceedings of SPIE

altmetric score

  • 1

author list (cited authors)

  • Flaugher, B. L., Abbott, T., Annis, J., Antonik, M. L., Bailey, J., Ballester, O., ... Zhao, A.

citation count

  • 13

complete list of authors

  • Flaugher, Brenna L||Abbott, Timothy MC||Annis, Jim||Antonik, Michelle L||Bailey, Jim||Ballester, Otger||Bernstein, Joseph P||Bernstein, Rebecca||Bonati, Marco||Bremer, Gale||Briones, Jorge||Brooks, David||Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth J||Campa, Julia||Cardiel-Sas, Laia||Castander, Francisco||Castilla, Javier||Cease, Herman||Chappa, Steve||Chi, Edward C||da Costa, Luis||DePoy, Darren L||Derylo, Gregory||De Vicente, Juan||Diehl, H Thomas||Doel, Peter||Estrada, Juan||Eiting, Jacob||Elliott, Anne||Finley, David||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||Karliner, Inga||Kau, Daekwang||Kent, Steve||Krempetz, Kurt||Krider, John||Kozlovsky, Mark||Kubik, Donna||Kuehn, Kyler W||Kuhlmann, Stephen E||Kuk, Kevin||Lahav, Ofer||Lewis, Peter||Lin, Huan||Lorenzon, Wolfgang||Marshall, Stuart||Martínez, Gustavo||McKay, Timothy||Merritt, Wyatt||Meyer, Mark||Miquel, Ramon||Morgan, Jim||Moore, Peter||Moore, Todd||Nord, Brian||Ogando, R||Olsen, Jamieson||Peoples, John||Plazas, Andreas||Roe, Natalie||Roodman, Aaron||Rossetto, B||Sanchez, E||Scarpine, Vic||Schalk, Terry||Schindler, Rafe||Schmidt, Ricardo||Schmitt, Richard||Schubnell, Mike||Schultz, Kenneth||Selen, M||Serrano, S||Shaw, Terri||Simaitis, Vaidis||Slaughter, Jean||Smith, R Christopher||Spinka, Hal||Stefanik, Andy||Stuermer, Walter||Sypniewski, Adam||Talaga, Rick||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

  • July 2010