The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration - 0 views
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Phil Marshall on 08 Nov 12Formed in summer 2012, the LSST DESC sets out its plans for the next few years, preparing to try and measure the accelerating expansion of the Universe very accurately indeed. Most of the work between now and 2020 will be on trying to predict, understand and mitigate against systematic errors in this measurement - so analysis pipelines need defining, implementing (in pieces) and testing on simulations. The strong lensing case is primarily time delay distances from ~1000 lensed quasars and SNe, but multiple source plane systems could play a role as well.