SPOKES: an End-to-End Simulation Facility for Spectroscopic Cosmological Surveys

Understand

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.