Speaker: Chris D’Andrea
Location: University of Southampton
Over its five-year duration, the Dark Energy Survey Supernova program (DES SN) will discover approximately 3500 Type Ia supernovae with well-sampled multi-color light curves in the redshift range 0.2 < z < 1.2. The large field of view and high z-band sensitivity of the Dark Energy Camera, combined with the precision photometry of DES and an improved handling of systematic uncertainties, will allow DES SN to provide the strongest constraints on supernova cosmology to date. In this talk I will present an overview of DES SN, with emphasis on the strategies designed to counter the unique challenges faced by such a large transient survey. I will additionally present results from DES obtained over the three months since the survey began in late August.