Spectroscopic needs for imaging dark energy experiments
Abstract
Ongoing and near-future imaging-based dark energy experiments are critically dependent upon photometric redshifts (a.k.a. photo-z's): i.e., estimates of the redshifts of objects based only on flux information obtained through broad filters. Higher-quality, lower-scatter photo-z's will result in smaller random errors on cosmological parameters; while systematic errors in photometric redshift estimates, if not constrained, may dominate all other uncertainties from these experiments. The desired optimization and calibration is dependent upon spectroscopic measurements for secure redshift information; this is the key application of galaxy spectroscopy for imaging-based dark energy experiments.
- Publication:
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Astroparticle Physics
- Pub Date:
- March 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2014.06.007
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1309.5384
- Bibcode:
- 2015APh....63...81N
- Keywords:
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- Cosmology;
- Dark energy;
- Surveys;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- White paper for the "Dark Energy and CMB" working group for the American Physical Society's Division of Particles and Fields long-term planning exercise ("Snowmass")