Title
Enabling dark energy survey science analysis with simulations on XSEDE resources
Abstract
Upcoming wide-area sky surveys offer the power to test the source of cosmic acceleration by placing extremely precise constraints on existing cosmological model parameters. These observational surveys will employ multiple tests based on statistical signatures of galaxies and larger-scale structures such as clusters of galaxies. Simulations of large-scale structure provide the means to maximize the power of sky survey tests by characterizing key sources of systematic uncertainties. We describe an XSEDE program to produce multiple synthetic sky surveys of galaxies and large-scale cosmic structure in support of science analysis for the Dark Energy Survey. We explain our Airavata-enabled methods and report extensions to our workflow processing over the last year. We highlight science analysis focused on counts of clusters of galaxies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2484762.2484801
XSEDE
Keywords
Field
DocType
multiple synthetic sky survey,science analysis,large-scale structure,airavata-enabled method,cosmic acceleration,sky survey test,multiple test,large-scale cosmic structure,dark energy survey science,larger-scale structure,xsede resource,wide-area sky survey,astrophysics,dark energy,cosmology,astronomy
Astronomy,Astrophysics,Cosmology,COSMIC cancer database,Computer science,Dark energy,Sky,Acceleration,Galaxy,Workflow
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.39
1
Authors
9