Session K4: Dark Energy II

1:15 PM–3:03 PM, Sunday, April 15, 2007
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - Grand 3

Sponsoring Units: DPF DAP
Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Abstract ID: BAPS.2007.APR.K4.2

Abstract: K4.00002 : Destiny, The Dark Energy Space Telescope

1:51 PM–2:27 PM

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Author:

  Tod R. Lauer
    (NOAO)

Destiny is a simple, direct, low cost mission to determine the properties of dark energy by obtaining a cosmologically deep supernova (SN) type Ia Hubble diagram. Operated at L2, its science instrument is a 1.65m space telescope, featuring a grism-fed near-infrared (NIR) ($0.85-1.7\mu m$) survey camera/spectrometer with a 0.12 square degree field of view. During its two-year primary mission, Destiny will detect, observe, and characterize $\sim3000$ SN Ia events over the redshift interval $0.4

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