Status of the Dark Energy Survey Camera (DECam) Project
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OSTI ID:1044923
The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration has completed construction of the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), a 3 square degree, 570 Megapixel CCD camera which will be mounted on the Blanco 4-meter telescope at CTIO. DECam will be used to perform the 5000 sq. deg. Dark Energy Survey with 30% of the telescope time over a 5 year period. During the remainder of the time, and after the survey, DECam will be available as a community instrument. All components of DECam have been shipped to Chile and post-shipping checkout finished in Jan. 2012. Installation is in progress. A summary of lessons learned and an update of the performance of DECam and the status of the DECam installation and commissioning will be presented.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1044923
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-CONF-12-317-AE-E; TRN: US1203424
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Presented at SPIE International Symposium on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Kona, Hawaii, 20-27 Mar 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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