J-PAS: The Javalambre-Physics of the Accelerated Universe Astrophysical Survey

N. BENÍTEZ; R. DUPKE; M. MOLES; L. SODRÉ; A. J. CENARRO; A. MARÍN-FRANCH; K. TAYLOR; D. CRISTÓBAL; A. FERNÁNDEZ-SOTO; C. MENDES DE OLIVEIRA; J. CEPA-NOGUÉ; L.R. ABRAMO; J.S. ALCANIZ; R. OVERZIER; C. HERNÁNDEZ-MONTEAGUDO; E. J. ALFARO; A. KANAAN; J. M. CARVANO; R. R. R. REIS; E. MARTÍNEZ GONZÁLEZ; B. ASCASO; F. BALLESTEROS; H. S. XAVIER; J. VARELA; A. EDEROCLITE; H. VÁZQUEZ RAMIÓ; T. BROADHURST; E. CYPRIANO; R. ANGULO; J. M. DIEGO; A. ZANDIVAREZ; E. DÍAZ-GIMÉNEZ; 120 AUTORES MAS

ArXiv e-prints

Cornell University

Lugar: Ithaca, New York; Año: 2014 p. 1 - 215

The Javalambre-Physics of the Accelerated Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) is a narrow band, very wide field Cosmological Survey to be carried out from the Javalambre Observatory in Spain with a purpose-built, dedicated 2.5m telescope and a 4.7 sq.deg. camera with 1.2Gpix. Starting in late 2015, J-PAS will observe 8500sq.deg. of Northern Sky and measure $0.003(1+z)$ photo-z for $9imes10^7$ LRG and ELG galaxies plus several million QSOs, sampling an effective volume of $sim 14$ Gpc$^3$ up to $z=1.3$ and becoming the first radial BAO experiment to reach Stage IV. J-PAS will detect $7imes 10^5$ galaxy clusters and groups, setting constrains on Dark Energy which rival those obtained from its BAO measurements. Thanks to the superb characteristics of the site (seeing ~0.7 arcsec), J-PAS is expected to obtain a deep, sub-arcsec image of the Northern sky, which combined with its unique photo-z precision will produce one of the most powerful cosmological lensing surveys before the arrival of Euclid. J-PAS unprecedented spectral time domain information will enable a self-contained SN survey that, without the need for external spectroscopic follow-up, will detect, classify and measure $sigma_zsim 0.5%$ redshifts for $sim 4000$ SNeIa and $sim 900$ core-collapse SNe. The key to the J-PAS potential is its innovative approach: a contiguous system of 54 filters with $145AA$ width, placed $100AA$ apart over a multi-degree FoV is a powerful "redshift machine", with the survey speed of a 4000 multiplexing low resolution spectrograph, but many times cheaper and much faster to build. The J-PAS camera is equivalent to a 4.7 sq.deg. "IFU" and it will produce a time-resolved, 3D image of the Northern Sky with a very wide range of Astrophysical applications in Galaxy Evolution, the nearby Universe and the study of resolved stellar populations.