The dark energy survey data management system

for the DES Collaboration

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Abstract

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a project with the goal of building, installing and exploiting a new 74 CCDcamera at the Blanco telescope, in order to study the nature of cosmic acceleration. It will cover 5000 square degrees of the southern hemisphere sky and will record the positions and shapes of 300 million galaxies up to redshift 1.4. The survey will be completed using 525 nights during a 5-year period starting in 2012. About O(1 TB) of raw data will be produced every night, including science and calibration images. The DES data management system has been designed for the processing, calibration and archiving of these data. It is being developed by collaborating DES institutions, led by NCSA. In this contribution, we describe the basic functions of the system, what kind of scientific codes are involved and how the Data Challenge process works, to improve simultaneously the Data Management system algorithms and the Science Working Group analysis codes.

Original languageEnglish (US)
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, DPF 2011 - Providence, United States
Duration: Aug 9 2011Aug 13 2011

Conference

Conference2011 Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, DPF 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityProvidence
Period8/9/118/13/11

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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