The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy – an overview

Authors

Dark Collaboration•F. Abdalla•J. Mohr

Published

March 21, 2016

Abstract

This overview paper describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the DES early data.DES is using a wide-field camera (DECam) on the 4 m Blanco Telescope in Chile to image 5000 sq deg of the sky in five filters (grizY).