DEBAO

The Dark Energy Imprint on the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

Coordinatore	THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH    more  Organization address address: OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE city: EDINBURGH postcode: EH8 9YL contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Angela Cognome: Noble Email: send email Telefono: +44 131 650 9024
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	200˙371 €
EC contributo	200˙371 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF
Funding Scheme	MC-IIF
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-03-28   -   2015-12-23

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH  Organization address address: OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE city: EDINBURGH postcode: EH8 9YL contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Angela Cognome: Noble Email: send email Telefono: +44 131 650 9024	UK (EDINBURGH)	coordinator	200˙371.80
2	UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX  Organization address address: Sussex House city: FALMER, BRIGHTON postcode: BN1 9RH contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Amanda D Cognome: Britt Email: send email Telefono: +44 1273 873831 Fax: +44 1273 678192	UK (FALMER, BRIGHTON)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'This work programme addresses pressing issues in both observational and theoretical cosmology. The main goal is to use the Baryon Acoustic Scale of Oscillations (BAO) to pin down the nature of the Dark Energy (DE) component. The BAO scale is a powerful probe of DE properties. It constrains geometrical as well as dynamical tracers of the Universe’s evolution, and can break the long-standing degeneracy between dark energy and spatial curvature.

The observational component is strongly related to data analysis of the SDSS survey the most successful of astronomical surveys in history, in particular the BOSS survey that Dr. Cortes is a part of. It is also related to the design and conceptual planning of BOSS’s next-generation experiment, the GROUND-BASED SPECTROSCOPIC BigBOSS survey that Dr. Cortes is also a part of.

BigBOSS is currently being planned at Dr. Cortês’ institution, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and will extend the studies of BOSS to even earlier stages in the history of the universe, leveraging the full power of BAO to the next level.

The theoretical component will play an essential role in ensuring the design of future probes of DE is optimized to obtain the best leverage of future data in the constraining of DE models.

This work constitutes a breakthrough in the way BAO data, in particular from the Lyman-Alpha Forest, is currently treated and converted in constraints on DE.

The goal of the project is to promote the transfer of expertise of analysis of BAO data between the US and the European Union, through the EDINBURGH INSTITUTE FOR ASTRONOMY. It is also highly beneficial for European Science Community as a whole to exchange expertize in survey planning with the US, in consultation with community-led teams to define the optimal survey with a broad and rich science yield.'