A repo to go along with the LSST DESC April 2017 Hack Week project on: How can LSST/DESC contribute to understanding the fundamental nature of dark matter?.
In the DESC science roadmap it says "The DESC is one aspect of this community effort, focused principally on the use of LSST to study observable signatures of “dark sector" physics, including dark energy, dark matter, neutrinos, and signatures of inflation." In this hack session we would like to explore the various ways that DESC could probe the fundamental nature of dark matter with LSST. The goal would be 1-2 days of brainstorming the science and feasibility, followed by a few days working towards fleshing out a "white paper/roadmap" that could be submitted for a "dark matter" working group.
- github repo for DESC dark matter
- list of dark matter probes
- literature review/bibliography of probes
- start feasibility notebooks for probes
Alex Drlica-Wagner
Keith Bechtol (remote), Will Dawson (remote, and potentially out of sync), Matthew Walker, Ting Li, Nora Shipp, Scott Dodelson, Sergey Koposov
Possible ToDo: Insert table with Topic, Description, and References