The Dark Energy Survey: Education and Public Outreach

暗能量调查(DES)是目前世界上领先的地面宇宙学实验。这个耗资1亿美元的项目已经酝酿了10年，但现在正在顺利进行。什么是DES？对南方天空的六年研究将以前所未有的精度测试宇宙学。它使用安装在智利安第斯山脉Cerro Tololo美洲天文台4米(‘Blanco’)光学望远镜上的5.2亿像素数码相机(DECAM)。DES不仅将对宇宙学产生影响，还将在其他领域产生大量发现，例如遥远太阳系中的物体、银河系的新伙伴、遥远的黑洞等。自该项目开始以来，英国一直参与DES。DES国际合作有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在公众参与方面有着巨大的潜力：不仅暗能量背后的概念本身极具说服力，而且我们经常产生令人难以置信的图像，激发公众的想象力。现在在DES E/PO上投入更多的时间和精力是至关重要的，因为这项调查将在未来两年内达到其科学生产率的顶峰。就在DES逐渐结束之际，LSST也将接近尾声。由于为DES开发的许多E/PO材料可以直接转移到LSST，这种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：改善暗能量调查的网页；增加暗能量调查的社交媒体的影响；增加暗能量调查对英国社会的影响和意义。前两个方面覆盖全球，第三个方面以英国为中心。基本的主题是，通过利用全球DES成员的创造性才华，我将能够在英国各地显著提高与STFC相关的E/PO。

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.