David Schlegel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory October 13, 2021 DESI has broken its own records, mapping the three-dimensional location of 100,000 distant galaxies and quasars in the single night of October 8, 2021. The DESI Main Survey started on the evening of May 14, 2021. Nearly 100 scientists joined the operations team on Zoom that […]
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The DESI peculiar velocity survey
Christoph Saulder, Postdoc at KASI October 11, 2021 While the main goal of DESI is to obtain spectroscopic redshifts for millions of galaxies to map the expansion history of the universe, there are also secondary targeting programs that supplement the main DESI survey and its science goals. The DESI peculiar velocity survey is one of […]
A DIY Guide for Upgrading Your 100 Million Dollar World Class Astronomical Instrument
John Della Costa, University of Florida October 2, 2021 Astronomy is fun. But have you ever wanted to make it even better? Then why not try upgrading your 100 million dollar world class astronomical instrument! This may sound like an extremely difficult challenge that would require more than 30 people and many weeks of labor […]
