Today, STFC announced that it will fund development work for the UK to contribute to the BigBOSS experiment . The award follows from a presentation made to the Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear Physics Science Committee (PPAN) by UK project PI Will Percival last April. The money will be split between University College London, the University of Durham and the University of Portsmouth. BigBOSS is an exciting experiment, which would provide a 5,000 fibre multi-object spectrograph for the 4m Mayall telescope.
Yesterday, ESA selected Euclid as one of its Medium, or M, class missions for launch in 2019. Euclid will study dark energy through the use of gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering measurements. Several staff at the ICG are involved, including Bob Nichol, Will Percival and David Bacon.
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