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Title

Monster redshift surveys through dispersive slitless imaging: the Baryon Oscillation Probe

Author(s)

Glazebrook, Karl;  Baldry, Ivan K.;  Moos, H. Warren;  Kruk, Jeffrey W.;  McCandliss, Stephan Robert

Abstract

Wide-field imaging from space should not forget the dispersive dimension. We consider the capability of space-based imaging with a slitless grism: because of the low near-infrared background in space and the high sky-density of high-redshift emission line galaxies this makes for a very powerful redshift machine with no moving parts. A small 1 m space telescope with a 0.5° field of view could measure redshifts for 10 7 galaxies at 0.5 < z < 2 per year, this is a MIDEX class concept which we have dubbed ‘The Baryon Oscillation Probe’ as the primary science case would be constraining dark energy evolution via measurement of the baryonic oscillations in the galaxy power spectrum. These ideas are generalizable to other missions such as SNAP and DESTINY.

Publication type

Journal article

Source

New Astronomy Reviews, Vol. 49, no. 7-9 (Nov 2005), pp. 374-378

Publication year

2005

Keyword(s)

Lyman-break galaxies;  Space-telescope;  Star-formation;  Evolution;  Spectrum

Publisher

Elsevier B.V.

ISSN

1387-6473

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.newar.2005.08.007

Copyright

Copyright © 2005 Elsevier B. V. This is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in New Astronomy Reviews. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in New Astronomy Reviews, 49, 7-9, (Nov 2005) 10.1016/j.newar.2005.08.007.

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