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Seeing the invisible by measuring galaxy shapes from noisy, blurry images. Prof. Sarah Bridle (School of Physics and Astronomy, UoM)

Dates:21 October 2015
Times:14:00 - 15:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:Department of Computer Science
How much:Free
Who is it for:University staff, Adults, Current University students
Speaker:Professor Sarah Bridle
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I will describe the great potential and possible limitations of using the bending of light by gravity (gravitational lensing) to constrain the mysterious dark matter and dark energy which seem to dominate the contents of our Universe. In particular we have to remove the blurring effects of our telescopes and the atmosphere to extreme precision, to measure the shapes of galaxies to extreme accuracy. I will discuss the recent GREAT image analysis Challenges we have set to astronomers and beyond. I will then describe the recent results we obtained from the preliminary Dark Energy Survey data of 3 million galaxies, and the potential of the full dataset of 300 million galaxies in the next 5 years. Finally I will overview the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project, the premier ground-based optical imaging survey of the next decade, which is expected produce over 100 petabytes over 10 years. LSST will enable a diverse array of astronomical and fundamental physics investigations including: the search for small moving objects in the solar system, studies of the assembly history of the Milky Way, and measure shapes of around 3 billion galaxies.

Price: Free

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Professor Sarah Bridle

Role: Professor

Organisation: School of Physics and Astronomy, UoM

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