The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy – an overview

Authors: Abbott, Timothy M. C., Abdalla, Filipe B., Aleksíc, Jelena, Allam, Sahar S., Amara, Adam, D. Bacon, Balbinot, Eduardo, Banerji, M., K. Bechtol, Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien, Bernstein, Gary M., E. Bertin, J. Blazek, C. Bonnett, S. L. Bridle, D. Brooks, Robert J. Brunner, E. Buckley‐Geer, D. L. Burke, G. B. Caminha, Capozzi, Diego, J. Carlsen, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carollo, Carrasco Kind, Matías, J. Carretero, F. J. Castander, Clerkin, L., Thomas E. Collett, C. Conselice, M. Crocce, C. E. Cunha, C. B. D’Andrea, L. N. da Costa, T. M. Davis, S Desai, H. T. Diehl, J. P. Dietrich, Dodelson, Scott, Doel, Peter, Drlica-Wagner, Alex, J. Estrada, Etherington, James, Evrard, August E., J. Fabbri, D. A. Finley, Flaugher, Brenna, Foley, Ryan Joseph, Fosalba Vela, Pablo, J Frieman, García-Bellido, Juan, Gaztañaga, Enrique, Gerdes, David W., Giannantonio,Tommaso, Goldstein, Daniel Abraham, Gruen, Daniel, Gruendl, Robert A., P. Guarnieri, Gutierrez, Gaston R., Hartley, William, Honscheid, K. (Klaus), Jain, Bhuvnesh, James, David J., Jeltema, Tesla E., S. Jouvel, R. Kessler, King, Anthea L., Kirk, Donnacha, R. Kron, Kuehn, Kyler, N. Kuropatkin, O. Lahav, T. S. Li, Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira, Lin, H., Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Makler, Martín, Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, J. L. Marshall, P. Martini, McMahon, Richard G., Melchior, Peter M., Merson, Alexander I., Miller, Christopher J., R. Miquel, J. J. Mohr, Morice-Atkinson, Xan, Naidoo, Krishna, Neilsen, Eric H., Nichol, Robert C., Nord, Brian Dennis, R. L. C. Ogando, Ostrovski, F., Palmese, A., Papadopoulos, Andreas, Peiris, Hiranya V., J. Peoples, Percival, Will J., A. A. Plazas, Reed, Sophie L., Refregier, Alexandre, Romer, Anita K., A. Roodman, Ross, A.J., Rozo, Eduardo, Rykoff, Eli, A. Roodman, Sako, Masao, Sánchez Alonso, Carles, E. S. Rykoff, B. Santiago, Scarpine, Victor Emanuel, M. Schubnell, I Sevilla-Noarbe, Sheldon, Erin, Smith, Matthew Wilson L., Smith, Robert Christopher, Soares-Santos, Marcelle, Sobreira, Flávia, Soumagnac, Maayane Tamar, Suchyta, Eric, Sullivan, Mark, Swanson, Molly E. C., Tarle, Gregory, J. Thaler, D. Thomas, R. Thomas, Tucker, Douglas L., J. D. Vieira, V. Vikram, Walker, Alistair, Wechsler, Risa H., Weller, Jochen, Wester, William Carl, L Whiteway, Wilcox, Harry George, Yanny, Brian, Zhang, Yuanyuan, J. Zuntz, DES Collaboration - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2016 cited by 1,006

This overview paper describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the DES early data. DES is using a wide-field camera (DECam) on the 4 m Blanco Telescope in Chile to image 5000 sq deg of the sky in five filters (grizY).