Tag: dark energy

Dark Energy Survey scientists release new analysis of how the universe expands

The latest results combined weak lensing and galaxy clustering and incorporated four dark energy probes from a single experiment for the first time. This story is amended from one published by Fermilab, which includes information about the full results published by the DES collaboration The Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration — including scientists at the …

UW physicists part of study offering unique insights into the expansion of the universe

This post is modified from one originally published by Fermilab In the culmination of a decade’s worth of effort, the Dark Energy Survey collaboration of scientists analyzed an unprecedented sample of nearly 1,500 supernovae classified using machine learning. They placed the strongest constraints on the expansion of the universe ever obtained with the DES supernova …

Jimena González joins Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

This story was originally posted by the Graduate School Five outstanding scholars, including Physics PhD student Jimena González, are joining the UW–Madison chapter of the national Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society this academic year. The Bouchet Society commemorates the first person of African heritage to earn a PhD in the United States. Edward A. …

Dark Energy Survey releases most precise look at the universe’s evolution

This news piece has been slightly modified from this news story, first published by Fermilab.  The Dark Energy Survey collaboration has created the largest ever maps of the distribution and shapes of galaxies, tracing both ordinary and dark matter in the universe out to a distance of more than 7 billion light years. The analysis, …

Dark Energy Survey makes public catalog of nearly 700 million astronomical objects

Note: this post is adapted from this article, originally published by Fermilab The Dark Energy Survey, a global collaboration including researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has released DR2, the second data release in the survey’s seven-year history. DR2 was the topic of sessions at the 237th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, which was held …