Exploring Cosmic Acceleration: Insights from DESI 2024
About Event
Location
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
3700 San Martin Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218
Time
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST
Contact Information
Description
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration is conducting a five-year redshift survey of 40 million extra-galactic sources over 14,000 square degrees of the northern sky up to the redshift of 4 with the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Laboratory. One of its primary goals is to measure the cosmic expansion history precisely and accurately through the measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO). In this talk, I will present the analysis of the DESI First Year Baryon Acoustic Oscillations using the distributions of galaxies and quasars over the redshift range of 0.1-2, the estimates of the relevant systematics, and their intriguing cosmological implications, including the time-evolving dark energy.
Speaker: Hee-Jong Seo (Ohio University)
Notes
The 2024 Fall Colloquium talks are held on Wednesdays at 3:00 PM. This colloquium is hosted by STScI and will be held as an in-person and virtual event.
You may join in person at STScI’s John N. Bahcall Auditorium or virtually on STScI's Live Science Events Facebook page.
Please direct questions or comments to contact above. The 2024 Fall Colloquium Committee members are: Nestor Espinoza (STScI), Joel Green (STScI), Nick Indriolo (STScI), Elena Manjavacas (STScI), Namrata Roy (JHU), Kevin Schlaufman (JHU), Ethan Vishniac (JHU).