The Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) Omega

Understand

[JDEM-Omega is one of the three concepts that contributed to the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission advocated by the Astro2010 Decadal Survey.

• It is the concept on which the recommended observatory configuration is based.] The Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) is a space-based observatory designed to perform precision measurements of the nature of dark energy in the Universe.
• It will make an order of magnitude progress in measuring the equation of state parameters of the Universe of most importance for understanding dark energy.
• JDEM-Omega is a wide-field space telescope operating in the near infrared.