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The DESI Experiment Part II: Instrument Design
Authors :
DESI Collaboration Aghamousa, Amir Aguilar, Jessica Ahlen, Steve Alam, Shadab Allen, Lori E. Prieto, Carlos Allende Annis, James Bailey, Stephen Balland, Christophe Ballester, Otger Baltay, Charles Beaufore, Lucas Bebek, Chris Beers, Timothy C. Bell, Eric F. Bernal, José Luis Besuner, Robert Beutler, Florian Blake, Chris Bleuler, Hannes Blomqvist, Michael Blum, Robert Bolton, Adam S. Briceno, Cesar Brooks, David Brownstein, Joel R. Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth Burden, Angela Burtin, Etienne Busca, Nicolas G. Cahn, Robert N. Cai, Yan-Chuan Cardiel-Sas, Laia Carlberg, Raymond G. Carton, Pierre-Henri Casas, Ricard Castander, Francisco J. Cervantes-Cota, Jorge L. Claybaugh, Todd M. Close, Madeline Coker, Carl T. Cole, Shaun Comparat, Johan Cooper, Andrew P. Cousinou, M. -C. Crocce, Martin Cuby, Jean-Gabriel Cunningham, Daniel P. Davis, Tamara M. Dawson, Kyle S. de la Macorra, Axel De Vicente, Juan Delubac, Timothée Derwent, Mark Dey, Arjun Dhungana, Govinda Ding, Zhejie Doel, Peter Duan, Yutong T. Ealet, Anne Edelstein, Jerry Eftekharzadeh, Sarah Eisenstein, Daniel J. Elliott, Ann Escoffier, Stéphanie Evatt, Matthew Fagrelius, Parker Fan, Xiaohui Fanning, Kevin Farahi, Arya Farihi, Jay Favole, Ginevra Feng, Yu Fernandez, Enrique Findlay, Joseph R. Finkbeiner, Douglas P. Fitzpatrick, Michael J. Flaugher, Brenna Flender, Samuel Font-Ribera, Andreu Forero-Romero, Jaime E. Fosalba, Pablo Frenk, Carlos S. Fumagalli, Michele Gaensicke, Boris T. Gallo, Giuseppe Garcia-Bellido, Juan Gaztanaga, Enrique Fusillo, Nicola Pietro Gentile Gerard, Terry Gershkovich, Irena Giannantonio, Tommaso Gillet, Denis Gonzalez-de-Rivera, Guillermo Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta Gott, Shelby Graur, Or Gutierrez, Gaston Guy, Julien Habib, Salman Heetderks, Henry Heetderks, Ian Heitmann, Katrin Hellwing, Wojciech A. Herrera, David A. Ho, Shirley Holland, Stephen Honscheid, Klaus Huff, Eric Hutchinson, Timothy A. Huterer, Dragan Hwang, Ho Seong Laguna, Joseph Maria Illa Ishikawa, Yuzo Jacobs, Dianna Jeffrey, Niall Jelinsky, Patrick Jennings, Elise Jiang, Linhua Jimenez, Jorge Johnson, Jennifer Joyce, Richard Jullo, Eric Juneau, Stéphanie Kama, Sami Karcher, Armin Karkar, Sonia Kehoe, Robert Kennamer, Noble Kent, Stephen Kilbinger, Martin Kim, Alex G. Kirkby, David Kisner, Theodore Kitanidis, Ellie Kneib, Jean-Paul Koposov, Sergey Kovacs, Eve Koyama, Kazuya Kremin, Anthony Kron, Richard Kronig, Luzius Kueter-Young, Andrea Lacey, Cedric G. Lafever, Robin Lahav, Ofer Lambert, Andrew Lampton, Michael Landriau, Martin Lang, Dustin Lauer, Tod R. Goff, Jean-Marc Le Guillou, Laurent Le Van Suu, Auguste Le Lee, Jae Hyeon Lee, Su-Jeong Leitner, Daniela Lesser, Michael Levi, Michael E. L'Huillier, Benjamin Li, Baojiu Liang, Ming Lin, Huan Linder, Eric Loebman, Sarah R. Lukić, Zarija Ma, Jun MacCrann, Niall Magneville, Christophe Makarem, Laleh Manera, Marc Manser, Christopher J. Marshall, Robert Martini, Paul Massey, Richard Matheson, Thomas McCauley, Jeremy McDonald, Patrick McGreer, Ian D. Meisner, Aaron Metcalfe, Nigel Miller, Timothy N. Miquel, Ramon Moustakas, John Myers, Adam Naik, Milind Newman, Jeffrey A. Nichol, Robert C. Nicola, Andrina da Costa, Luiz Nicolati Nie, Jundan Niz, Gustavo Norberg, Peder Nord, Brian Norman, Dara Nugent, Peter O'Brien, Thomas Oh, Minji Olsen, Knut A. G. Padilla, Cristobal Padmanabhan, Hamsa Padmanabhan, Nikhil Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie Palmese, Antonella Pappalardo, Daniel Pâris, Isabelle Park, Changbom Patej, Anna Peacock, John A. Peiris, Hiranya V. Peng, Xiyan Percival, Will J. Perruchot, Sandrine Pieri, Matthew M. Pogge, Richard Pollack, Jennifer E. Poppett, Claire Prada, Francisco Prakash, Abhishek Probst, Ronald G. Rabinowitz, David Raichoor, Anand Ree, Chang Hee Refregier, Alexandre Regal, Xavier Reid, Beth Reil, Kevin Rezaie, Mehdi Rockosi, Constance M. Roe, Natalie Ronayette, Samuel Roodman, Aaron Ross, Ashley J. Ross, Nicholas P. Rossi, Graziano Rozo, Eduardo Ruhlmann-Kleider, Vanina Rykoff, Eli S. Sabiu, Cristiano Samushia, Lado Sanchez, Eusebio Sanchez, Javier Schlegel, David J. Schneider, Michael Schubnell, Michael Secroun, Aurélia Seljak, Uros Seo, Hee-Jong Serrano, Santiago Shafieloo, Arman Shan, Huanyuan Sharples, Ray Sholl, Michael J. Shourt, William V. Silber, Joseph H. Silva, David R. Sirk, Martin M. Slosar, Anze Smith, Alex Smoot, George F. Som, Debopam Song, Yong-Seon Sprayberry, David Staten, Ryan Stefanik, Andy Tarle, Gregory Tie, Suk Sien Tinker, Jeremy L. Tojeiro, Rita Valdes, Francisco Valenzuela, Octavio Valluri, Monica Vargas-Magana, Mariana Verde, Licia Walker, Alistair R. Wang, Jiali Wang, Yuting Weaver, Benjamin A. Weaverdyck, Curtis Wechsler, Risa H. Weinberg, David H. White, Martin Yang, Qian Yeche, Christophe Zhang, Tianmeng Zhao, Gong-Bo Zheng, Yi Zhou, Xu Zhou, Zhimin Zhu, Yaling Zou, Hu Zu, Ying
Publication Year :
2016
Abstract
DESI (Dark Energy Spectropic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations and the growth of structure through redshift-space distortions with a wide-area galaxy and quasar redshift survey. The DESI instrument is a robotically-actuated, fiber-fed spectrograph capable of taking up to 5,000 simultaneous spectra over a wavelength range from 360 nm to 980 nm. The fibers feed ten three-arm spectrographs with resolution $R= \lambda/\Delta\lambda$ between 2000 and 5500, depending on wavelength. The DESI instrument will be used to conduct a five-year survey designed to cover 14,000 deg$^2$. This powerful instrument will be installed at prime focus on the 4-m Mayall telescope in Kitt Peak, Arizona, along with a new optical corrector, which will provide a three-degree diameter field of view. The DESI collaboration will also deliver a spectroscopic pipeline and data management system to reduce and archive all data for eventual public use.
Details
Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1611.00037
Document Type :
Working Paper