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Title: Dark Energy Studies with LSST Image Simulations, Final Report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1272167· OSTI ID:1272167
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  1. Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

This grant funded the development and dissemination of the Photon Simulator (PhoSim) for the purpose of studying dark energy at high precision with the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) astronomical survey. The work was in collaboration with the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC). Several detailed physics improvements were made in the optics, atmosphere, and sensor, a number of validation studies were performed, and a significant number of usability features were implemented. Future work in DESC will use PhoSim as the image simulation tool for data challenges used by the analysis groups.

Research Organization:
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
DOE Contract Number:
SC0009923
OSTI ID:
1272167
Report Number(s):
DOE-PETERSON-2016; TRN: US1601653
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English