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University of California, Berkeley Department of Physics
Novel instrumentation to measure dark energy
Term Amount Date Approved
24 months $2,100,000 Nov. 2012
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Purpose
This grant supports the acquisition of first-of-a-kind optical instruments (wide field optics and massively parallel spectrographs) to measure dark energy and its effects on the Universe’s expansion using the recently proven technique of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations.
Funding area:  Science  /  Science Program Grants
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