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25 April 2024

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The Dark Energy Spectrometer (DESpec): A Multi-Fiber Spectroscopic Upgrade of the Dark Energy Camera and Survey for the Blanco Telescope
F. Abdalla ; J. Annis ; D. Bacon ; S. Bridle ; F. Castander ; M. Colless ; D. DePoy ; H. T. Diehl ; M. Eriksen ; B. Flaugher ; J. Frieman ; E. Gaztanaga ; C. Hogan ; S. Jouvel ; S. Kent ; D. Kirk ; R. Kron ; S. Kuhlmann ; O. Lahav ; J. Lawrence ; H. Lin ; J. Marriner ; J. Marshall ; J. Mohr ; R. C. Nichol ; M. Sako ; W. Saunders ; M. Soares-Santos ; D. Thomas ; R. Wechsler ; A. West ; H. Wu ;
Date:	12 Sep 2012
Abstract:	We describe an initiative to build and use the Dark Energy Spectrometer (DESpec), a wide-field spectroscopic survey instrument for the Blanco 4 meter telescope at Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. A new system with about 4000 robotically positioned optical fibers will be interchangeable with the CCD imager of the existing Dark Energy Camera (DECam), accessing a field of view of 3.8 square degrees in a single exposure. The proposed instrument will be operated by CTIO and available for use by the astronomy community. Our collaboration proposes to use DESpec to conduct a wide, deep spectroscopic survey to study Dark Energy. In a survey of about 350 nights, the DESpec collaboration proposes to obtain spectroscopic redshifts for about 8 million galaxies over 5000 square degrees selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). This Dark Energy Spectroscopic Survey will advance our knowledge of cosmic expansion and structure growth significantly beyond that obtainable with imaging-only surveys. Since it adds a spectroscopic third dimension to the same sky as DES, DESpec will enable increasingly precise techniques to discriminate among alternative explanations of cosmic acceleration, such as Dark Energy and Modified Gravity.
Source:	arXiv, 1209.2451
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