Summary of the DUNE mission concept

A. Refregier; M. Douspis

doi:10.1117/12.789730

12 July 2008 Summary of the DUNE mission concept

A. Refregier, M. Douspis

Proceedings Volume 7010, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter; 701018 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789730
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

The Dark UNiverse Explorer (DUNE) is a wide-field imaging mission concept whose primary goal is the study of dark energy and dark matter with unprecedented precision. To this end, DUNE is optimised for weak gravitational lensing, and also uses complementary cosmological probes, such as baryonic oscillations, the integrated Sachs-Wolf effect, and cluster counts. Immediate additional goals concern the evolution of galaxies, to be studied with groundbreaking statistics, the detailed structure of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, and the demographics of Earth-mass planets. DUNE is a medium class mission consisting of a 1.2m telescope designed to carry out an all-sky survey in one visible and three NIR bands (1deg² field-of-view) which will form a unique legacy for astronomy. DUNE has been selected jointly with SPACE for an ESA Assessment phase which has led to the Euclid merged mission concept.

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A. Refregier and M. Douspis "Summary of the DUNE mission concept", Proc. SPIE 7010, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter, 701018 (12 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789730

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