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Astrometric Calibration and Performance of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Focal Plane
S. Kent, E. Neilsen, K. Honscheid +46
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, consisting of 5020 robotic fiber positioners and associated systems on the Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona, is carrying out a surve…
Optimization of the Observing Cadence for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: a pioneering process of community-focused experimental design
Federica B. Bianco, Željko Ivezić, R. Lynne Jones +43
Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a ground-based astronomical facility under construction, a joint project of the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, designed…
Instrumental response model and detrending for the Dark Energy Camera
G. M. Bernstein, T. M. C. Abbott, S. Desai +11
We describe the model for the mapping from sky brightness to the digital output of the Dark Energy Camera, and the algorithms adopted by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) for inverting…
The Dark Energy Camera
B. Flaugher, H. T. Diehl, K. Honscheid +115
The Dark Energy Camera is a new imager with a 2.2-degree diameter field of view mounted at the prime focus of the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter telescope on Cerro Tololo near La Serena,…
PreCam, a Precursor Observational Campaign for Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey
K. Kuehn, S. Kuhlmann, S. Allam +40
PreCam, a precursor observational campaign supporting the Dark Energy Survey (DES), is designed to produce a photometric and astrometric catalog of nearly a hundred thousand standa…
DECam integration tests on telescope simulator
M. Soares-Santos, J. Annis, M. Bonati +31
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a next generation optical survey aimed at measuring the expansion history of the universe using four probes: weak gravitational lensing, galaxy clus…