The Dark Energy Survey: Education and Public Outreach

暗能量调查（DES）是目前世界上领先的地基宇宙学实验。这个耗资1亿美元的项目历时10年，但现在正在顺利进行。什么是DES？这是对南天为期六年的研究，将以前所未有的精度检验宇宙学。它使用了一台520兆像素的数码相机（DECam），该相机安装在智利安第斯山脉塞罗托洛洛美洲天文台的4米（"布兰科“）光学望远镜上。DES不仅将在宇宙学中产生影响，它还将在其他领域产生丰富的发现，例如遥远太阳系中的物体，银河系的新同伴，遥远的黑洞等。国际DES合作中有300多名科学家，其中近100名在英国（其余在美国、西班牙、智利、巴西、德国和瑞士）。DES具有巨大的公众参与潜力：不仅暗能量背后的概念本身非常引人注目，我们还经常生成捕捉公众想象力的神话般的图像。现在必须为DES E/PO投入更多的时间和精力，因为调查将在今后两年内达到其科学生产力的高峰。正如DES正在逐步结束，LSST将接近完成。由于许多为DES开发的E/PO材料可以直接转移到LSST，这个奖学金的影响将持续多年。我的建议有三个相互关联的方面：改进暗能量调查网页;增加暗能量调查社交媒体的影响;增加暗能量调查对英国社会的影响和意义。前两个方面具有全球影响力，第三个方面以英国为中心。潜在的主题是，通过利用世界各地的DES成员的创造性人才，我将能够大大提高STFC相关的E/PO在英国。

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is the leading ground-based cosmology experiment in the world at the moment. This 100 million dollar project was 10 years in the making, but is now well underway. What is DES? It is six year study of the southern sky that will test cosmology to unprecedented precision. It uses a 520 Megapixel digital camera (DECam) that is mounted on the 4 metre (``Blanco'') optical telescope at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in the Chilean Andes. Not only will DES make an impact in cosmology, it will also generate a wealth of discoveries in other areas, e.g. objects in the distant solar system, new companions to the Milky Way, distant black holes, etc. The UK has been involved in DES since the project started. There are over 300 scientists in the international DES collaboration, of which almost 100 are in the UK (the remainder are in the USA, Spain, Chile, Brazil, Germany, and Switzerland). DES has enormous potential for public engagement: not only are the concepts behind dark energy in themselves hugely compelling, we routinely generate fabulous images that capture the public's imagination. It is essential that more time and effort goes into DES E/PO now, because the survey will be reaching its peak science productivity within the next two years. Just as DES is winding down, LSST will be nearing completion. As many of the E/PO materials developed for DES can be transferred directly to LSST, the impact of this fellowship will last for many years to come.There are three, interlinked, aspects to my proposal: Improving the Dark Energy Survey webpages; Increasing the impact of Dark Energy Survey social media; Increasing the reach and significance of the Dark Energy Survey on UK society. The first two aspects have a global reach, the third is UK centric. The underlying theme is that by exploiting the creative talents of DES members world wide, I will be able to enhance STFC related E/PO significantly across the UK.