Announcements

The first Survey Science group meeting of the year will be on Thursday 10/3 at 3:30PM in ERC 501.
The full meeting schedule can be found below.

Research Projects

DES

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is an optical-NIR imaging survey that uses a 570-Megapixel camera on the 4-meter Blanco Telescope in Chile to cover 5000 deg2 of the southern sky. The primary science goal of DES is to understand the accelerating expansion of the universe through combined measurements of supernova, large-scale stucture, weak lensing, and galaxy clusters. The rich dataset from DES also enables studies of dark matter, galaxy evolution, and transient science.

LSST

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is a next-generation optical-NIR imaging survey on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory at Cerro Pachon in Chile. LSST will use a 3.2-Gigapixel camera and an 8.4-meter primary mirror to cover ~18,000 deg2 of sky. Over its 10 year mission, LSST will produce a "movie" of the universe by imaging the entire visible sky every 3 nights. The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) hosts the study of dark energy with LSST.

SPT

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10-meter telescope operating at the geographical South Pole, designed to measure the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at mm/submm wavelengths. The high angular resolution and low noise level of SPT allows unprecedented measurements of CMB lensing and galaxy clusters. SPT and DES observe the same area of sky, which enables joint analyses of the two data sets.

CCD Development

Silicon charged-coupled devices (CCDs) have been the primary detector for astronomical observations for the last 30 years. While CCD technology is mature, it is far from stagnant. We work at the interface of hardware and software to improve the performance of these detectors for applications in future cosmic surveys.

Deep Skies

Deep Skies brings together experts in astronomy and artificial intelligence to explore the mutual benefits of large-scale data analysis for both fields. The Deep Skies team is specifically interested in the advent of advanced algorithms for data-intensive research in astrophysics and cosmology.


DELVE

The DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE) Survey is a community survey program to observe the entire southern sky with DECam. DELVE uses observations of the smallest and faintest galaxies to understand the mechanisms governing galaxy formation and the fundamental physics of dark matter.



Publications & Products

Most of our publications can be found on the ADS with the following query:

NASA ADS

We also write software, much of which can be found on GitHub:

https://github.com/chihway
https://github.com/kadrlica
https://github.com/alexji
https://github.com/bnord


Research Group

The Survey Science Group Meetings schedule for this quarter can be found here.


Chihway Chang

Assistant Professor
Astronomy & Astrophysics
University of Chicago
Website; GitHub



Scott Dodelson

Distinguished Scientist, Fermilab
Professor
University of Chicago
Website; GitHub



Alex Drlica-Wagner

Scientist, Fermilab
Associate Professor
University of Chicago
Website; GitHub



Joshua Frieman

Professor
Astronomy & Astrophysics
University of Chicago
Website



Alexander Ji

Assistant Professor
Astronomy & Astrophysics
University of Chicago
Website; GitHub



Brian Nord

Scientist, Fermilab
KICP Associate
University of Chicago
Website; GitHub


Senior Members


Elizabeth Buckley-Geer

Senior Scientist, Fermilab
CASE Associate, University of Chicago


Aleksandra Ćiprijanović

Wilson Fellow
Fermilab


Tom Crawford

Research Professor
University of Chicago



Richard Kessler

Research Professor
University of Chicago


Yuuki Omori

Research Scientist
University of Chicago



Postdocs


Ani Chiti

KICP Brinson Fellow
University of Chicago


Marco Gatti

KICP Fellow
University of Chicago


Giulia Giannini

Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Chicago


Daniel Gilman

Brinson Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Chicago


Guilherme Limberg

KICP Fellow
University of Chicago


Tanvi Karwal

KICP Fellow
University of Chicago


Gabriela Marques

Postdoctoral Researcher
Fermilab


Brandon Roach

KICP Fellow
University of Chicago


Anowar Shajib

NASA Hubble Fellow
University of Chicago


Chun-Hao To

Schmidt Fellow
University of Chicago


Georgios Valogiannis

Schmidt Fellow
University of Chicago


Georgios Zacharegkas

Postdoctoral Researcher
Argonne


Graduate Students



Shrihan Agarwal

Astronomy & Astrophysics
University of Chicago



Dhayaa Anbajagane

Astronomy & Astrophysics
University of Chicago



Hillary Andales

Astronomy & Astrophysics
University of Chicago



Daisy Bissonette

Astronomy & Astrophysics
University of Chicago


Jazmine Jefferson


Astronomy & Astrophysics
University of Chicago


Alice Luna


Astronomy & Astrophysics
University of Chicago


Edgar Marrufo Villalpando

Physics
University of Chicago


Johnny Pitocco


Astronomy & Astrophysics
University of Chicago



Chin Yi Tan

Physics
University of Chicago



Pierre Thibodeaux

Astronomy & Astrophysics
University of Chicago



Samantha Usman

Astronomy & Astrophysics
University of Chicago



Alan Zhou

Physics
University of Chicago


Undergraduate Students

Dillon Bass

University of Chicago

Benjamin Cohen

University of Chicago

Ha Do

University of Chicago

Yuduo Du

University of Chicago

Emory Murff

University of Chicago

Jack Sharp

University of Chicago

Gwen Sheley

University of Chicago

Anthony Xu

University of Chicago


Alumni

A list of group alumni can be found here.