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DARK ENERGY SURVEY, THE

English · Hardback

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This book is about the Dark Energy Survey, a cosmological experiment designed to investigate the physical nature of dark energy by measuring its effect on the expansion history of the universe and on the growth of large-scale structure. The survey saw first light in 2012, after a decade of planning, and completed observations in 2019. The collaboration designed and built a 570-megapixel camera and installed it on the four-metre Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in the Chilean Andes. The survey data yielded a three-dimensional map of over 300 million galaxies and a catalogue of thousands of supernovae. Analysis of the early data has confirmed remarkably accurately the model of cold dark matter and a cosmological constant. The survey has also offered new insights into galaxies, supernovae, stellar evolution, solar system objects and the nature of gravitational wave events.
A project of this scale required the long-term commitment of hundreds of scientists from institutions all over the world. The chapters in the first three sections of the book were either written by these scientists or based on interviews with them. These chapters explain, for a non-specialist reader, the science analysis involved. They also describe how the project was conceived, and chronicle some of the many and diverse challenges involved in advancing our understanding of the universe. The final section is trans-disciplinary, including inputs from a philosopher, an anthropologist, visual artists and a poet. Scientific collaborations are human endeavours and the book aims to convey a sense of the wider context within which science comes about.
This book is addressed to scientists, decision makers, social scientists and engineers, as well as to anyone with an interest in contemporary cosmology and astrophysics.

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Authors Lucy Calder Julian Mayers & Ofer Lahav
Assisted by Lucy Calder (Editor), Lucy (Univ College London Calder (Editor), Joshua A Frieman (Editor), Joshua A (Fermi Nat'l Accelerator Lab Frieman (Editor), Joshua A. Frieman (Editor), Julian Mayers (Editor), Ofer Lahav (Editor), Ofer (Univ College London Lahav (Editor), Lucy Calder (Editor), Julian Mayers (Editor), Julian (Univ Of Sussex Mayers (Editor), Ofer Lahav (Editor)
Publisher WSPC (Europe)
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.09.2020
 
EAN 9781786348357
ISBN 978-1-78634-835-7
No. of pages 444
Dimensions 157 mm x 235 mm x 28 mm
Weight 790 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics

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