Cosmology with Gravitational Waves in DES and LSST

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2017 · IAU Symposium No.338, 2017

OSTI ID:1469002

Herner, Kenneth  ^[1]; Soares-Santos, Marcelle  ^[1]; Annis, James  ^[1]

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1. Fermilab

Motivated by the prospect of the wealth of data arising from the inauguration of the era of gravitational wave detection by ground-based interferometers the DES collaboration, in partnership with members of the LIGO collaboration and members of the astronomical commu- nity at large, have established a research program to search for their optical counterparts and to explore their use as cosmological probes. In this talk we present the status of our program and discuss prospects for establishing this new probe as part of the portfolio of the Dark Energy research program in the future, in particular for the next generation survey, LSST.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• Contributing Organization: DECam; DES
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1469002
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-17-595; 1692747
• Journal Information: IAU Symposium No.338, 2017, Conference: IAU Symposium 338, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, 10/16-10/19/2017
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English