TY - JOUR
T1 - SPOKES
T2 - an end-to-end simulation facility for spectroscopic cosmological surveys
AU - Nord, B.
AU - Amara, A.
AU - Réfrégier, A.
AU - Gamper, Lu
AU - Gamper, Lu
AU - Hambrecht, B.
AU - Chang, C.
AU - Forero-Romero, J. E.
AU - Serrano, S.
AU - Cunha, C.
AU - Coles, O.
AU - Nicola, A.
AU - Busha, M.
AU - Bauer, A.
AU - Saunders, W.
AU - Jouvel, S.
AU - Kirk, D.
AU - Wechsler, R.
PY - 2016/4/1
Y1 - 2016/4/1
N2 - The nature of dark matter, dark energy and large-scale gravity pose some of the most pressing questions in cosmology today. These fundamental questions require highly precise measurements, and a number of wide-field spectroscopic survey instruments are being designed to meet this requirement. A key component in these experiments is the development of a simulation tool to forecast science performance, define requirement flow-downs, optimize implementation, demonstrate feasibility, and prepare for exploitation. We present SPOKES (SPectrOscopic KEn Simulation), an end-to-end simulation facility for spectroscopic cosmological surveys designed to address this challenge. SPOKES is based on an integrated infrastructure, modular function organization, coherent data handling and fast data access. These key features allow reproducibility of pipeline runs, enable ease of use and provide flexibility to update functions within the pipeline. The cyclic nature of the pipeline offers the possibility to make the science output an efficient measure for design optimization and feasibility testing. We present the architecture, first science, and computational performance results of the simulation pipeline. The framework is general, but for the benchmark tests, we use the Dark Energy Spectrometer (DESpec), one of the early concepts for the upcoming project, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We discuss how the SPOKES framework enables a rigorous process to optimize and exploit spectroscopic survey experiments in order to derive high-precision cosmological measurements optimally.
AB - The nature of dark matter, dark energy and large-scale gravity pose some of the most pressing questions in cosmology today. These fundamental questions require highly precise measurements, and a number of wide-field spectroscopic survey instruments are being designed to meet this requirement. A key component in these experiments is the development of a simulation tool to forecast science performance, define requirement flow-downs, optimize implementation, demonstrate feasibility, and prepare for exploitation. We present SPOKES (SPectrOscopic KEn Simulation), an end-to-end simulation facility for spectroscopic cosmological surveys designed to address this challenge. SPOKES is based on an integrated infrastructure, modular function organization, coherent data handling and fast data access. These key features allow reproducibility of pipeline runs, enable ease of use and provide flexibility to update functions within the pipeline. The cyclic nature of the pipeline offers the possibility to make the science output an efficient measure for design optimization and feasibility testing. We present the architecture, first science, and computational performance results of the simulation pipeline. The framework is general, but for the benchmark tests, we use the Dark Energy Spectrometer (DESpec), one of the early concepts for the upcoming project, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We discuss how the SPOKES framework enables a rigorous process to optimize and exploit spectroscopic survey experiments in order to derive high-precision cosmological measurements optimally.
KW - Computation
KW - Cosmology
KW - Extragalactic
KW - Galaxies
KW - Simulation
KW - Spectroscopy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84960466998&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ascom.2016.02.001
DO - 10.1016/j.ascom.2016.02.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84960466998
SN - 2213-1337
VL - 15
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Astronomy and Computing
JF - Astronomy and Computing
ER -