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Just as DES is an international collaboration, DECam is an international camera with components built in five different countries. The science requirements of DES drive the construction of the …

Nov 27, 2025 · DECam is a facility instrument, available to all users. DECam was built to carry out the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Project by the DES Collaboration, which finished observations …

Due to the combination of large field of view and high sensitivity from 400-1000 nm, DECam is an efficient option for obtaining photometry in the g g, r r, and z z bands.

DECam, short for the Dark Energy Camera, is a large camera built to replace the previous prime focus camera on the Victor M. Blanco Telescope. The camera consists of three major …

Nov 5, 2025 · When DECam takes a picture of a region of the sky, it captures light from thousands of galaxies and stars. By analyzing these images, astronomers can measure the …

Jun 6, 2016 · The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) is a 570-megapixel camera installed on the 4-meter Victor Blanco telescope atop Cerro Tololo, a mountain in the Chilean Andes. The …

Jun 26, 2025 · The Dark Energy Camera or DECam created at Fermilab became the biggest digital camera in the world [1] when it entered service in 2012 [2] at the 4-meter Blanco …

Oct 19, 2015 · DECam was designed and constructed by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Collaboration with the primary goal of studying the nature of dark energy using four …

The instrument used by DES is the newly constructed Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which is mounted on the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American …