TITLE:
Findings of the Joint Dark Energy Mission Figure of Merit Science Working Group.
AUTHOR(S):
Andreas Albrecht, Luca Amendola, Gary Bernstein, Douglas Clowe, Daniel Eisenstein, Luigi Guzzo, Christopher Hirata, Dragan Huterer, Robert Kirshner,
Edward Kolb, Robert Nichol.
DATE:
2009 Jan 06 (arXiv, v1, posted).
AVAILABILITY:
arXiv 0901.0721 (free);
NASA/GSFC (free).
PUBLICATION INFORMATION:
N/A.
ABSTRACT:
These are the ndings of the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) Figure of Merit (FoM) Science
Working Group (SWG), the FoMSWG. JDEM is a space mission planned by NASA and the DOE
for launch in the 2016 time frame. The primary mission is to explore the nature of dark energy. In
planning such a mission, it is necessary to have some idea of knowledge of dark energy in 2016, and
a way to quantify the performance of the mission. In this paper we discuss these issues.
ADS BIBLIOGRAPHIC CODE: 2009arXiv0901.0721A
COMMENTS: This is a follow-on to the Dark Energy Task Force report.