Lahav, Ofer (Editor)
Calder, Lucy (Editor)
Mayers, Julian (Editor)
This book is about the Dark Energy Survey, a cosmological experiment designed to investigate the physical nature of dark energy by measuring its effect on the expansion history of the universe and on the growth of large-scale structure. The survey saw first light in 2012, after a decade of planning, and completed observations in 2019. The collaboration designed and built a 570-megapixel camera and installed it on the four-metre Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in the Chilean Andes. The survey data yielded a three-dimensional map of over 300 million galaxies and a catalogue of thousands of supernovae. Analysis of the early data has confirmed remarkably accurately the model of cold dark matter and a cosmological constant. The survey has also offered new insights into galaxies, supernovae, stellar evolution, solar system objects and the nature of gravitational wave events.A project of this scale required the long-term commitment of hundreds of scientists from institutions all over the world. The chapters in the first three sections of the book were either written by these scientists or based on interviews with them. These chapters explain, for a non-specialist reader, the science analysis involved. They also describe how the project was conceived, and chronicle some of the many and diverse challenges involved in advancing our understanding of the universe. The final section is trans-disciplinary, including inputs from a philosopher, an anthropologist, visual artists and a poet. Scientific collaborations are human endeavours and the book aims to convey a sense of the wider context within which science comes about.This book is addressed to scientists, decision makers, social scientists and engineers, as well as to anyone with an interest in contemporary cosmology and astrophysics.
...MoreReview Connemara Doran (2020) Review of "The Dark Energy Survey: The Story of a Cosmological Experiment". Journal for the History of Astronomy (pp. 483-485).
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Burke, Katie;
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Absolutely Negative
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Kragh, Helge;
(2012)
Preludes to Dark Energy: Zero-Point Energy and Vacuum Speculations
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Helge S. Kragh;
James M. Overduin;
(2014)
The Weight of the Vacuum: A Scientific History of Dark Energy
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Cavicchi, Elizabeth;
(2006)
Nineteenth-Century Developments in Coiled Instruments and Experiences with Electromagnetic Induction
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Aubin, David;
(2008)
“The Memory of Life Itself”: Bénard's Cells and the Cinematography of Self-Organization
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Sibum, H. Otto;
(2004)
Experience-Experiment: The Changing Experiential Basis of Physics
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Franklin, Allan;
(2004)
Doing Much about Nothing
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Vincenzo Schettino;
(2017)
Isaac Newton and Alchemy
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Zancul, Maria Cristina de Senzi;
Barreto, Elton de Oliveira;
(2014)
Scientific Instruments for Physics Teaching in Brazilian Secondary Schools, 1931--1961
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Frercks, Jan;
(2007)
Immaterial Devices
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Gauvin, Jean-François;
(2006)
Le cabinet de physique du château de Cirey et la philosophie naturelle de Mme Du Châtelet et de Voltaire
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Lucia De Frenza;
(2017)
The “Poles” of Healing: Mineral Magnetism vs. Animal Magnetism
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Zhang, Gongyao;
Lei, Zhihua;
(2007)
New Inquiry and a Simulation Experiment on the “Making of Ice in Summer” in Ancient China
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Hon, Giora;
(2003)
From Propagation to Structure: The Experimental Technique of Bombardment as a Contributing Factor to the Emerging Quantum Physics
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Baudot, Laura;
(2012)
An Air of History: Joseph Wright's and Robert Boyle's Air Pump Narratives
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Shea, William R.;
(2000)
Science and the Visual Image in the Enlightenment
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Chown, Marcus;
(1999)
Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms
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Meinel, Christoph;
(2000)
Instrument---Experiment: Historische Studien
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Bigg, Charlotte;
(2007)
Die Karriere der quantitativen Spektralanalyse: Experimental-kulturen zwischen Physik, Chemie und Industrie
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Climerio Paulo da Silva Neto;
(2023)
Materializing the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Instruments and the First Bell Tests
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