Astro2020 Science White Paper: Cosmological Synergies Enabled by Joint Analysis of Multi-probe data from WFIRST, Euclid, and LSST
- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Jet Propulsion Lab. (JPL). et al.
NASA, NSF, and DOE will collectively spend well over $4B this decade and the next on missions and surveys that have dark energy cosmology as one of their primary drivers. WFIRST, Euclid, and LSST are all missions designed to perform dedicated surveys that offer unprecedented statistical constraining power and control of systematic uncertainties. However, there is a growing realization that these missions will be significantly more powerful when the data are processed and analyzed in unison. This will require coordinated cross-survey and interagency effort. With proper attention to how data are jointly processed and analyzed, the combination of these missions will provide constraints and systematics control that is better than the sum of their individual parts, as stated in the title of Jain, et al. (2015). We advocate for the three relevant US agencies to work together with our international partners to ensure that the synergy from these multi-probe missions is fully realized.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Contributing Organization:
- LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1833586
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-19-741-PPD; oai:inspirehep.net:1797969; TRN: US2300077
- Journal Information:
- Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 51, Issue 3; ISSN 0002-7537
- Publisher:
- The American Astronomical Society (AAS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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