The Making of the Largest 3D Map of the Universe
Abstract
DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, will mobilize 5,000 swiveling robots – each one pointing a thin strand of fiber-optic cable – to gather the light from about 35 million galaxies. The little robots are designed to fix on a series of preselected sky objects that are as distant as 12 billion light-years away. By studying how these galaxies are drifting away from us, DESI will provide precise measurements of the accelerating rate at which the universe is expanding. This expansion rate is caused by an invisible force known as dark energy, which is one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and accounts for about 68 percent of all mass and energy in the universe. In this video, DESI project participants share their insight and excitement about the project and its potential for new and unexpected discoveries. Dark Energy Instrument’s Lenses See the Night Sky for the First Time http://bit.ly/DESIlight The Making of the Largest 3D Map of the Universe http://bit.ly/3Duniverse
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1670426
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; DESI, DARK ENERGY SPECTROSCOPIC INSTRUMENT, 3-D MAP; GALAXIES; DARK ENERGY; ROBOTS; TELESCOPE; UNIVERSE
Citation Formats
Dey, Arjun, Percival, William, Levi, Michael, Wechsler, Risa, Eisenstein, Daniel, Moustakas, John, Fagrelius, Parker, Sprayberry, David, and Seo, Hee-Jong. The Making of the Largest 3D Map of the Universe. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web.
Dey, Arjun, Percival, William, Levi, Michael, Wechsler, Risa, Eisenstein, Daniel, Moustakas, John, Fagrelius, Parker, Sprayberry, David, & Seo, Hee-Jong. The Making of the Largest 3D Map of the Universe. United States.
Dey, Arjun, Percival, William, Levi, Michael, Wechsler, Risa, Eisenstein, Daniel, Moustakas, John, Fagrelius, Parker, Sprayberry, David, and Seo, Hee-Jong. Tue .
"The Making of the Largest 3D Map of the Universe". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1670426.
@article{osti_1670426,
title = {The Making of the Largest 3D Map of the Universe},
author = {Dey, Arjun and Percival, William and Levi, Michael and Wechsler, Risa and Eisenstein, Daniel and Moustakas, John and Fagrelius, Parker and Sprayberry, David and Seo, Hee-Jong},
abstractNote = {DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, will mobilize 5,000 swiveling robots – each one pointing a thin strand of fiber-optic cable – to gather the light from about 35 million galaxies. The little robots are designed to fix on a series of preselected sky objects that are as distant as 12 billion light-years away. By studying how these galaxies are drifting away from us, DESI will provide precise measurements of the accelerating rate at which the universe is expanding. This expansion rate is caused by an invisible force known as dark energy, which is one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and accounts for about 68 percent of all mass and energy in the universe. In this video, DESI project participants share their insight and excitement about the project and its potential for new and unexpected discoveries. Dark Energy Instrument’s Lenses See the Night Sky for the First Time http://bit.ly/DESIlight The Making of the Largest 3D Map of the Universe http://bit.ly/3Duniverse},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Tue Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
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