Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007nimpa.579..848b&link_type=abstract
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 579, Issue 2, p. 848-852.
Physics
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Dark Energy
Scientific paper
The SNAP space mission concept is designed to explore dark energy with Type Ia supernova distance luminosity measurements and with weak lensing angular distance correlation power spectrum. The supernova program uses photometric discovery and detailed follow-up observations of at least 2000 Type Ia supernovae with redshifts ranging from 0.3 to 1.7. The weak lensing program uses a deep small field survey and a shallower large field survey with photometry, position and shape measurement of several million galaxies. The instrument sits at the focus of a ˜2-m diameter three-mirror anastigmat telescope with a 1.4 deg2 field of view. It consists of an imager that instruments 0.7 deg2 of the field of view, and a low-resolution spectrograph. Both the photometer and spectrograph use visible and near-infrared detectors to span the wavelength range 400 1700 nm. Wavelength is covered with two detector materials implemented with different readout architectures—CCDs for the visible and HgCdTe hybrid pixel detectors for the near-infrared. While these detector technologies are familiar in HEP experiments, they used in a very different manner, namely photon counting. The physics, architecture and characteristics of these detectors and how they are used will be presented.
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