The Case for Deep, Wide-Field Cosmology

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dc.creatorScranton, Ryan
dc.creatorAlbrecht, Andreas
dc.creatorCaldwell, Robert
dc.creatorCooray, Asantha
dc.creatorDore, Olivier
dc.creatorHabib, Salman
dc.creatorHeavens, Alan
dc.creatorHeitmann, Katrin
dc.creatorJain, Bhuvnesh
dc.creatorKnox, Lloyd
dc.creatorNewman, Jeffrey A.
dc.creatorSerra, Paolo
dc.creatorSong, Yong-Seon
dc.creatorStrauss, Michael
dc.creatorTyson, Tony
dc.creatorVerde, Licia
dc.creatorZhan, Hu
dc.date2009-02-16
dc.date2009-02-16
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:42:11Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:42:11Z
dc.descriptionMuch of the science case for the next generation of deep, wide-field optical/infrared surveys has been driven by the further study of dark energy. This is a laudable goal (and the subject of a companion white paper by Zhan et al.). However, one of the most important lessons of the current generation of surveys is that the interesting science questions at the end of the survey are quite different than they were when the surveys were being planned. The current surveys succeeded in this evolving terrain by being very general tools that could be applied to a number of very fundamental measurements. Likewise, the accessibility of the data enabled the broader cosmological and astronomical community to generate more science than the survey collaborations could alone. With that in mind, we should consider some of the basic physical and cosmological questions that surveys like LSST and JDEM-Wide will be able to address.
dc.description7 pages, 5 figures, whitepaper submitted to Astro2010 Decadal Survey
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0902.2590
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0902.2590
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/219986
dc.subjectCosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
dc.titleThe Case for Deep, Wide-Field Cosmology
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