AAS 237 Special Session on Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

Join us on Wednesday 13 January 2021 at 12-1:30pm EST for a Special Session on “Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI): On Sky.” DESI is the first Stage 4 dark energy experiment to begin observing. The session will present the status of the instrument, performance during commissioning and survey validation, and early results. With Data Release 9 of DESI’s legacy imaging surveys occurring at the AAS meeting, speakers will report on early science from DESI’s Milky Way Survey, Bright Galaxy Survey, and the large scale structure survey.

Presenters include:

• Satya Gontcho A Gontcho (LBNL/Rochester) DESI Commissioning
• Alex Krolewski (Waterloo/Perimeter) Testing gravity and cosmology with DESI plus weak lensing
• Pauline Zarrouk (LPNHE) The DESI Bright Galaxy Survey: from target selection to preliminary clustering properties
• Kevin Fanning (OSU) Instrument
• Anthony Kremin (LBNL) Preliminary Spectroscopic Performance of the DESI Data Pipeline
• Andrew Cooper (NTHU Taiwan) DESI Milky Way Survey

An associated poster session will feature additional results.