The Dark Energy Survey

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The Dark Energy Survey is an optical imaging survey project led by Fermilab to make precision measurements of dark energy using four independent techniques : Counts of Galaxy Clusters, Weak Lensing Shear Tomography, Supernova, and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations. The survey starting in the Fall of 2010, will use the Dark Energy Camera (being built by Fermilab) on the 4 meter Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The survey will image 5000 square degrees of the southern survey and take five years to complete.

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• Dark Energy Survey website