Browsing Exact and Earth Sciences by Author "Wechsler, Risa H."

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    • A dark energy camera search for missing supergiants in the LMC after the advanced LIGO gravitational-wave event GW150914 

      Annis, James T.; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Berger, Edo; Brout, Dillon J.; Chen, Hsinyu; Chornock, Ryan; Cowperthwaite, Philip S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Doctor, Z.; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Drout, Maria R.; Farr, Benjamin F.; Finley, David A.; Flaugher, Brenna; Foley, Ryan Joseph; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gruendl, Robert A.; Herner, Kenneth R.; Holz, Daniel E.; Kessler, Richard S.; Lin, H.; Marriner, John P.; Neilsen, Eric H.; Rest, Armin; Sako, Masao; Smith, Matthew Wilson L.; Smith, Nathan D.; Sobreira, Flávia; Walker, Alistair; Yanny, Brian; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Capozzi, Diego; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Castander Serentill, Francisco Javier; Cenko, Stephen Bradley; Crocce, Martin; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Costa, Luiz N. da; Desai, S.; Dietrich, Jörg P.; Eifler, Tim; Evrard, August E.; Fernández, Eva María; Fischer, John A.; Fong, Wenfai; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Fox, Derek B.; Fryer, Chris L.; García-Bellido, Juan; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Gerdes, David W.; Goldstein, Daniel Abraham; Gruen, Daniel; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Honscheid, K.; James, David J.; Karliner, Inga; Kasen, Daniel N.; Kent, Stephen M.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Li, T. S.; Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Martini, Paul; Metzger, Brian D.; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Mohr, Joseph J.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Peoples, John; Petravick, Donald L.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Quataert, Eliot J.; Romer, Anita K.; Roodman, Aaron; Rykoff, Eli; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Schindler, Rafe H.; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Sheldon, Erin; Smith, Robert Christopher; Stebbins, Albert J.; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thaler, Jon J.; Thomas, Rollin C.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Vikram, Vinu; Wechsler, Risa H.; Weller, Jochen; Wester, William Carl; DES Collaboration (2016) [Journal article]
      The collapse of a stellar core is expected to produce gravitational waves (GWs), neutrinos, and in most cases a luminous supernova. Sometimes, however, the optical event could be significantly less luminous than a supernova ...

    • DES13S2cmm : the first superluminous supernova from the Dark Energy Survey 

      Papadopoulos, Andreas; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Sullivan, Mark; Nichol, Robert C.; Barbary, Kyle; Biswas, Rahul; Brown, Peter J.; Covarrubias, Ricardo A.; Finley, David A.; Fischer, John A.; Foley, Ryan Joseph; Goldstein, Daniel Abraham; Gupta, Ravi R.; Kessler, Richard S.; Kovacs, Eve Veronika; Kuhlmann, Stephen Eugene; Lidman, Chris; March, Marisa Cristina; Nugent, Peter Edward; Sako, Masao; Smith, Robert Christopher; Spinka, Harold M.; Wester, William Carl; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Banerji, M.; Bernstein, Joseph P.; Bernstein, Rebecca A.; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Costa, Luiz N. da; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Eifler, Tim; Evrard, August E.; Flaugher, Brenna; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gerdes, David W.; Gruen, Daniel; Honscheid, K.; James, David J.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Makler, Martín; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Merritt, K. Wyatt; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Roe, Natalie A.; Romer, Anita K.; Rykoff, Eli; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thaler, Jon J.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Wechsler, Risa H.; Zuntz, J. (2015) [Journal article]
      We present DES13S2cmm, the first spectroscopically-confirmed superluminous supernova (SLSN) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES).We briefly discuss the data and search algorithm used to find this event in the first year of ...

    • DES J0454−4448 : discovery of the first luminous z ≥ 6 quasar from the Dark Energy Survey 

      Reed, Sophie L.; McMahon, Richard G.; Banerji, M.; Becker, George D.; Gonzalez-Solares, Eduardo; Martini, Paul; Ostrovski, F.; Rauch, Michael; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bertin, Emmanuel; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Costa, Luiz N. da; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Doel, Peter; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; Estrada, Juan; Evrard, August E.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Finley, David A.; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gruen, Daniel; Honscheid, K.; James, David J.; Kent, Stephen M.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Makler, Martín; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Merritt, K. Wyatt; Miquel, Ramon; Mohr, Joseph J.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Romer, Anita K.; Roodman, Aaron; Rykoff, Eli; Sako, Masao; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thomas, D.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Walker, Alistair; Wechsler, Risa H. (2015) [Journal article]
      We present the first results of a survey for high-redshift, z ≥ 6, quasars using izY multicolour photometric observations from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Here we report the discovery and spectroscopic confirmation of ...

    • Detecting massive galaxies at high redshift using the Dark Energy Survey 

      Davies, L. J. M.; Maraston, Claudia; Thomas, D.; Capozzi, Diego; Wechsler, Risa H.; Busha, M. T.; Banerji, M.; Ostrovski, F.; Papovich, Casey; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Nichol, Robert C.; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Costa, Luiz N. da (2013) [Journal article]
      The Dark Energy Survey (DES) will be unprecedented in its ability to probe exceptionally large cosmic volumes to relatively faint optical limits. Primarily designed for the study of comparatively low-redshift (z<2) galaxies ...

    • Discovery of two gravitationally lensed quasars in the Dark Energy Survey 

      Agnello, Adriano; Treu, Tommaso; Ostrovski, F.; Schechter, Paul L.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Lin, H.; Auger, Matthew W.; Courbin, Frederic Y. M.; Fassnacht, Christopher D.; Frieman, Joshua A.; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Marshall, Phillip J.; McMahon, Richard G.; Meylan, Georges; More, Andrew Mills; Suyu, Sherry; Rusu, Cristian Eduard; Finley, David A.; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Annis, James T.; Banerji, M.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Burke, David Lyle; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Costa, Luiz N. da; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Dietrich, Jörg P.; Doel, Peter; Eifler, Tim; Estrada, Juan; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Gerdes, David W.; Gruen, Daniel; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Honscheid, K.; James, David J.; Kent, Stephen M.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; March, Marisa Cristina; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Martini, Paul; Melchior, Peter M.; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Nichol, Robert C.; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Reil, Kevin; Romer, Anita K.; Roodman, Aaron; Sako, Masao; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thaler, Jon J.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Walker, Alistair; Wechsler, Risa H.; Zhang, Yuanyuan (2015) [Journal article]
      We present spectroscopic confirmation of two new gravitationally lensed quasars, discovered in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) based on their multiband photometry and extended ...

    • Eight new Milky Way companions discovered in first-year Dark Energy Survey data 

      Bechtol, Keith; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Balbinot, Eduardo; Pieres, Adriano; Simon, Josh D.; Yanny, Brian; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Wechsler, Risa H.; Frieman, Joshua A.; Walker, Alistair; Williams, P.; Rozo, Eduardo; Rykoff, Eli; Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade; Luque Canaza, Elmer Fidel; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Tucker, Douglas L.; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Gruendl, Robert A.; Costa, Luiz N. da; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Allam, Sahar S.; Armstrong, Robert; Bauer, Anne Hollister; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bernstein, Rebecca A.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Castander Serentill, Francisco Javier; Covarrubias, Ricardo A.; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Eifler, Tim; Estrada, Juan; Evrard, August E.; Fernandez, Enrique; Finley, David A.; Flaugher, Brenna; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Gerdes, David W.; Girardi, Leo Alberto; Gladders, Michael David; Gruen, Daniel; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Hao, Jiangang; Honscheid, K.; Jain, Bhuvnesh; James, David J.; Kent, Stephen M.; Kron, Richard G.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Li, T. S.; Lin, H.; Makler, Martín; March, Marisa Cristina; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Martini, Paul; Merritt, K. Wyatt; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Mohr, Joseph J.; Neilsen, Eric H.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Peoples, John; Petravick, Donald L.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Romer, Anita K.; Roodman, Aaron; Sako, Masao; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Schubnell, Michael; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thaler, Jon J.; Thomas, D.; Wester, William Carl; Zuntz, J.; DES Collaboration (2015) [Journal article]
      We report the discovery of eight new Milky Way companions in ~1800 deg2 of optical imaging data collected during the first year of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Each system is identified as a statistically significant ...

    • Eight ultra-faint galaxy candidates discovered in year two the Dark Energy Survey 

      Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Bechtol, Keith; Rykoff, Eli; Luque Canaza, Elmer Fidel; Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade; Mao, Yao-Yuan; Wechsler, Risa H.; Simon, Josh D.; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Yanny, Brian; Balbinot, Eduardo; Dodelson, Scott; Fausti Neto, Angelo; James, David J.; Li, T. S.; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Pieres, Adriano; Stringer, Katelyn M.; Walker, Alistair; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bernstein, Rebecca A.; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Crocce, Martin; Costa, Luiz N. da; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Dietrich, Jörg P.; Doel, Peter; Eifler, Tim; Evrard, August E.; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Gerdes, David W.; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Honscheid, K.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Miquel, Ramon; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Reil, Kevin; Roodman, Aaron; Sako, Masao; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Tucker, Douglas L.; Vikram, Vinu; Wester, William Carl; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Zuntz, J.; DES Collaboration (2015) [Journal article]
      We report the discovery of eight new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidates in the second year of optical imaging data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Six of these candidates are detected at high confidence, while two ...

    • Farthest neighbor : the distant Milky Way satellite Eridanus II 

      Li, T. S.; Simon, Josh D.; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Bechtol, Keith; Wang, M.; García-Bellido, Juan; Frieman, Joshua A.; Marshall, Jennifer L.; James, David J.; Strigari, Louis E.; Pace, Andrew B.; Balbinot, Eduardo; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Allam, Sahar S.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Burke, David Lyle; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Costa, Luiz N. da; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Eifler, Tim; Flaugher, Brenna; Goldstein, Daniel Abraham; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gschwend, Julia de Figueiredo; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Krause, Elisabeth; Kuehn, Kyler; Lin, H.; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; March, Marisa Cristina; Menanteau, Felipe; Miquel, Ramon; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Romer, Anita K.; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Tarle, Gregory; Thomas, D.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Walker, Alistair; Wechsler, Risa H.; Wester, William Carl; Yanny, Brian; DES Collaboration (2017) [Journal article]
      We present Magellan/IMACS spectroscopy of the recently discovered Milky Way satellite EridanusII (Eri II). We identify 28 member stars in EriII, from which we measure a systemic radial velocity of vhel = 75.6 1.3 (stat.) ...

    • Galaxy clustering, photometric redshifts and diagnosis of systematics in the DES Science Verification data 

      Crocce, Martin; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Bauer, Anne Hollister; Ross, A.J.; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Giannantonio,Tommaso; Sobreira, Flávia; Sanchez Lopez, Francisco Javier; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Sánchez Alonso, Carles; Bonnett, Christopher; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Brunner, Robert J.; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Cawthon, Ross; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Hartley, William; Kim, Edward J.; Leistedt, Boris; Miquel, Ramon; Peiris, Hiranya V.; Percival, Will J.; Rosenfeld, Rogerio; Rykoff, Eli; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Banerji, M.; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Capozzi, Diego; Castander Serentill, Francisco Javier; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Costa, Luiz N. da; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Eifler, Tim; Evrard, August E.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Fernandez, Enrique; Finley, David A.; Flaugher, Brenna; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gerdes, David W.; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Honscheid, K.; James, David J.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Li, T. S.; Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; March, Marisa Cristina; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Martini, Paul; Melchior, Peter M.; Miller, Christopher J.; Neilsen, Eric H.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Romer, Anita K.; Sako, Masao; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Schubnell, Michael; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thaler, Jon J.; Thomas, D.; Vikram, Vinu; Walker, Alistair; Wechsler, Risa H.; Weller, Jochen; Zuntz, J.; DES Collaboration (2016) [Journal article]
      We study the clustering of galaxies detected at i < 22.5 in the Science Verification observations of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Two-point correlation functions are measured using 2.3×106 galaxies over a contiguous 116 ...

    • Mapping and simulating systematics due to spatially varying observing conditions in DES Science Verification data 

      Leistedt, Boris; Peiris, Hiranya V.; Elsner, Franz; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Amara, Adam; Bauer, Anne Hollister; Becker, Matthew R.; Bonnett, Christopher; Bruderer, Claudio; Busha, M. T.; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Chang, Chihway; Crocce, Martin; Costa, Luiz N. da; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Huff, Eric; Lahav, Ofer; Palmese, A.; Percival, Will J.; Refregier, Alexandre; Ross, A.J.; Rozo, Eduardo; Rykoff, Eli; Sánchez Alonso, Carles; Sadeh, Iftach; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Wechsler, Risa H.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Banerji, M.; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bernstein, Rebecca A.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Bridle, Sarah Louise; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Capozzi, Diego; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Doel, Peter; Eifler, Tim; Evrard, August E.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gerdes, David W.; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Honscheid, K.; James, David J.; Jarvis, Michael; Kent, Stephen M.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Li, T. S.; Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; March, Marisa Cristina; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Martini, Paul; Melchior, Peter M.; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Reil, Kevin; Romer, Anita K.; Roodman, Aaron; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Schubnell, Michael; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Tarle, Gregory; Thaler, Jon J.; Thomas, D.; Vikram, Vinu; Walker, Alistair; Wester, William Carl; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Zuntz, J. (2016) [Journal article]
      Spatially varying depth and the characteristics of observing conditions, such as seeing, airmass, or sky background, are major sources of systematic uncertainties in modern galaxy survey analyses, particularly in deep ...

    • Mass and galaxy distributions of four massive galaxy clusters from Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data 

      Melchior, Peter M.; Suchyta, Eric; Huff, Eric; Hirsch, Michael Stefan; Kacprzak, Tomasz; Rykoff, Eli; Gruen, Daniel; Armstrong, Robert; Bacon, David J.; Bechtol, Keith; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bridle, Sarah Louise; Clampitt, Joseph; Honscheid, K.; Jain, Bhuvnesh; Jouvel, Stéphanie; Krause, Elisabeth; Lin, H.; MacCrann, Niall; Patton, Kenneth; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Rowe, Barnaby T. P.; Vikram, Vinu; Wilcox, Harry George; Young, Julia Cheek; Zuntz, J.; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Banerji, M.; Bernstein, Joseph P.; Bernstein, Rebecca A.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Castander Serentill, Francisco Javier; Costa, Luiz N. da; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Doel, Peter; Estrada, Juan; Evrard, August E.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Fernandez, Enrique; Finley, David A.; Flaugher, Brenna; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Gerdes, David W.; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Jarvis, Michael; Karliner, Inga; Kent, Stephen M.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Makler, Martín; Marriner, John P.; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Merritt, K. Wyatt; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Mohr, Joseph J.; Neilsen, Eric H.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Reil, Kevin; Roe, Natalie A.; Roodman, Aaron; Sako, Masao; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Schindler, Rafe H.; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Sheldon, Erin; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Sypniewski, Adam J.; Tarle, Gregory; Thaler, Jon J.; Thomas, D.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Walker, Alistair; Wechsler, Risa H.; Weller, Jochen; Wester, William Carl (2015) [Journal article]
      We measure the weak lensing masses and galaxy distributions of four massive galaxy clusters observed during the Science Verification phase of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). This pathfinder study is meant to (1) validate the ...

    • Modeling the transfer function for the Dark Energy Survey 

      Chang, Chihway; Busha, M. T.; Wechsler, Risa H.; Refregier, Alexandre; Amara, Adam; Rykoff, Eli; Becker, Matthew R.; Bruderer, Claudio; Gamper, L.; Leistedt, Boris; Peiris, Hiranya V.; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Balbinot, Eduardo; Banerji, M.; Bernstein, Rebecca A.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Desai, S.; Costa, Luiz N. da; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; Eifler, Tim; Evrard, August E.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Gerdes, David W.; Gruen, Daniel; James, David J.; Kuehn, Kyler; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Makler, Martín; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Zuntz, J. (2015) [Journal article]
      We present a forward-modeling simulation framework designed to model the data products from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). This forward-model process can be thought of as a transfer function—amapping from cosmological/ ...

    • A new Milk Way halo star cluster in the southern galactic sky 

      Balbinot, Eduardo; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Costa, Luiz N. da; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Majewski, Steven Raymond; Nidever, D.L.; Rocha-Pinto, H.J.; Thomas, D.; Wechsler, Risa H.; Yanny, Brian (2013) [Journal article]
      We report on the discovery of a new Milky Way (MW) companion stellar system located at (αJ 2000, δJ 2000) = (22h10 m 43 s. 15,14º56'58".8). The discovery was made using the eighth data release of SDSS after applying an ...

    • redMaGiC : selecting luminous red galaxies from the DES Science Verification data 

      Rozo, Eduardo; Rykoff, Eli; Abate, Alexandra; Bonnet, Christopher Clive; Crocce, Martin; Davis, Christopher P.; Hoyle, Ben; Leistedt, Boris; Peiris, Hiranya V.; Wechsler, Risa H.; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Banerji, M.; Bauer, Anne Hollister; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Capozzi, Diego; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carollo, Daniela; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Castander Serentill, Francisco Javier; Childress, Michael; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Davis, Tamara M.; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Dietrich, Jörg P.; Doel, Peter; Eifler, Tim; Evrard, August E.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Gerdes, David W.; Glazebrook, Karl; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Honscheid, K.; James, David J.; Jarvis, Michael; Kim, A. G.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Lewis, Geraint F.; Lidman, Chris; Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; March, Marisa Cristina; Martini, Paul; Melchior, Peter M.; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Mohr, Joseph J.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; O'Neill, C. R.; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Romer, Anita K.; Roodman, Aaron; Sako, Masao; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Thaler, Jon J.; Thomas, D.; Uddin, Syed; Vikram, Vinu; Walker, Alistair; Wester, William Carl; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Costa, Luiz N. da (2016) [Journal article]
      We introduce redMaGiC, an automated algorithm for selecting luminous red galaxies (LRGs). The algorithm was specifically developed to minimize photometric redshift uncertainties in photometric large-scale structure studies. ...

    • Redshift distributions of galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification shear catalogue and implications for weak lensing 

      Bonnett, Christopher; Troxel, Michael; Hartley, William; Amara, Adam; Leistedt, Boris; Becker, Matthew R.; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bridle, Sarah Louise; Bruderer, Claudio; Busha, M. T.; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Childress, Michael; Castander Serentill, Francisco Javier; Chang, Chihway; Crocce, Martin; Davis, Tamara M.; Eifler, Tim; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gangkofner, C.; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Glazebrook, Karl; Gruen, Daniel; Kacprzak, Tomasz; King, Anthea L.; Kwan, Juliana; Lahav, Ofer; Lewis, Geraint F.; Lidman, Chris; Lin, H.; MacCrann, Niall; Miquel, Ramon; O'Neill, C. R.; Palmese, A.; Peiris, Hiranya V.; Refregier, Alexandre; Rozo, Eduardo; Rykoff, Eli; Sadeh, Iftach; Sánchez Alonso, Carles; Sheldon, Erin; Uddin, Syed; Wechsler, Risa H.; Zuntz, J.; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Armstrong, Robert; Banerji, M.; Bauer, Anne Hollister; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Capozzi, Diego; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Costa, Luiz N. da; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Dietrich, Jörg P.; Doel, Peter; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Fernandez, Enrique; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Gerdes, David W.; Gruendl, Robert A.; Honscheid, K.; Jain, Bhuvnesh; James, David J.; Jarvis, Michael; Kim, A. G.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Li, T. S.; Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; March, Marisa Cristina; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Martini, Paul; Melchior, Peter M.; Miller, Christopher J.; Neilsen, Eric H.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Reil, Kevin; Romer, Anita K.; Roodman, Aaron; Sako, Masao; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thaler, Jon J.; Thomas, D.; Vikram, Vinu; Walker, Alistair; DES Collaboration (2016) [Journal article]
      We present photometric redshift estimates for galaxies used in the weak lensing analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification (DES SV) data. Four model- or machine learning-based photometric redshift methods—ANNZ2, ...

    • Search for gamma-ray emission from DES dwarf spheroidal galaxy candidates with Fermi-LAT data 

      Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Albert, Andrea; Bechtol, Keith; Wood, Matthew Dunseth; Strigari, Louis E.; Sánchez-Conde, Miguel A.; Baldini, Luca; Essig, Rouven; Cohen-Tanugi, Johann; Anderson, Brandon; Bellazzini, Ronaldo; Bloom, Elliott D.; Caputo, Regina; Cecchi, Claudia; Charles, Eric Andre; Chiang, James; De Angelis, Alessandro; Funk, Stefan; Fusco, Piergiorgio; Gargano, Fabio; Giglietto, Nico; Giordano, Francesco; Guiriec, Sylvain; Gustafsson, Michael; Kuss, Michael; Loparco, Francesco; Lubrano, Pasquale; Mirabal, N.; Mizuno, Tsunefumi; Morselli, Aldo; Ohsugi, Takashi; Orlando, Elena; Persic, Massimo; Raino, Silvia; Spada, Francesca Romana; Suson, Daniel J.; Zaharijas, Gabrijela; Zimmer, Stephan; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Allam, Sahar S.; Balbinot, Eduardo; Bauer, Anne Hollister; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bernstein, Rebecca A.; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Castander Serentill, Francisco Javier; Covarrubias, Ricardo A.; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Costa, Luiz N. da; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; Eifler, Tim; Estrada, Juan; Evrard, August E.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Fernandez, Enrique; Finley, David A.; Flaugher, Brenna; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Gerdes, David W.; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Honscheid, K.; Jain, Bhuvnesh; James, David J.; Jeltema, Tesla E.; Kent, Stephen M.; Kron, Richard G.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Li, T. S.; Luque Canaza, Elmer Fidel; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Makler, Martín; March, Marisa Cristina; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Martini, Paul; Merritt, K. Wyatt; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Mohr, Joseph J.; Neilsen, Eric H.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Peoples, John; Petravick, Donald L.; Pieres, Adriano; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade; Romer, Anita K.; Roodman, Aaron; Rykoff, Eli; Sako, Masao; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thaler, Jon J.; Thomas, D.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Walker, Alistair; Wechsler, Risa H.; Wester, William Carl; Williams, P.; Yanny, Brian; Zuntz, J.; Fermi LAT Collaboration; DES Collaboration (2015) [Journal article]
      Due to their proximity, high dark-matter (DM) content, and apparent absence of non-thermal processes, Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) are excellent targets for the indirect detection of DM. Recently, ...

    • Searching for dark matter annihilation in recently discovered Milky Way satellites with Fermi-LAT 

      Albert, Andrea; Anderson, Brandon; Bechtol, Keith; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Meyer, Manuel; Sánchez-Conde, Miguel A.; Strigari, Louis E.; Wood, Matthew Dunseth; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bernstein, Rebecca A.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Burke, David Lyle; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Crocce, Martin; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Costa, Luiz N. da; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Dietrich, Jörg P.; Doel, Peter; Eifler, Tim; Evrard, August E.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Finley, David A.; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gerdes, David W.; Goldstein, Daniel Abraham; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Honscheid, K.; James, David J.; Kent, Stephen M.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Li, T. S.; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; March, Marisa Cristina; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Martini, Paul; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Neilsen, Eric H.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Reil, Kevin; Romer, Anita K.; Rykoff, Eli; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Vikram, Vinu; Walker, Alistair; Wechsler, Risa H.; Fermi LAT Collaboration; DES Collaboration (2017) [Journal article]
      We search for excess γ-ray emission coincident with the positions of confirmed and candidate Milky Way satellite galaxies using six years of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Our sample of 45 stellar systems ...

    • Star/galaxy separation at faint magnitudes : application to a simulated Dark Energy Survey 

      Soumagnac, Maayane Tamar; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Lahav, Ofer; Kirk, Donnacha; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Bertin, Emmanuel; Rowe, Barnaby T. P.; Annis, James T.; Busha, M. T.; Costa, Luiz N. da; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Jarvis, Michael; Lin, H.; Percival, Will J.; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Sabiu, Cristiano Giovanni; Wechsler, Risa H.; Wolz, Laura; Yanny, Brian (2015) [Journal article]
      We address the problem of separating stars from galaxies in future large photometric surveys. We focus our analysis on simulations of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). In the first part of the paper, we derive the science ...

    • Stellar kinematics and metallicities in the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Reticulum II 

      Simon, Josh D.; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Li, T. S.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Geha, Marla; Bechtol, Keith; Balbinot, Eduardo; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Lin, H.; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Strigari, Louis E.; Wang, M.; Wechsler, Risa H.; Yanny, Brian; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Bauer, Anne Hollister; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Burke, David Lyle; Capozzi, Diego; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carrasco Kind, Matías; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Costa, Luiz N. da; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Dodelson, Scott; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; Estrada, Juan; Evrard, August E.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Fernandez, Enrique; Finley, David A.; Flaugher, Brenna; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Gerdes, David W.; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Honscheid, K.; James, David J.; Kent, Stephen M.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; March, Marisa Cristina; Martini, Paul; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Romer, Anita K.; Roodman, Aaron; Romer, Anita K.; Sako, Masao; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thaler, Jon J.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Vikram, Vinu; Walker, Alistair; Wester, William Carl; DES Collaboration (2015) [Journal article]
      We present Magellan/M2FS, Very Large Telescope/GIRAFFE, and Gemini South/GMOS spectroscopy of the newly discovered Milky Way satellite Reticulum II. Based on the spectra of 25 Ret II member stars selected from Dark Energy ...

    • The Dark Energy Survey : more than dark energy – an overview 

      Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Aleksíc, Jelena; Allam, Sahar S.; Amara, Adam; Bacon, David J.; Balbinot, Eduardo; Banerji, M.; Bechtol, Keith; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Blazek, Jonathan A.; Bonnett, Christopher; Bridle, Sarah Louise; Brooks, D.; Brunner, Robert J.; Buckley-Geer, E.; Burke, David Lyle; Caminha, Gabriel Bartosch; Capozzi, Diego; Carlsen, J.; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carollo, Marcella; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Castander Serentill, Francisco Javier; Clerkin, L.; Collett, Thomas E.; Conselice, Christopher J.; Crocce, Martin; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Costa, Luiz N. da; Davis, Tamara M.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Dietrich, Jörg P.; Dodelson, Scott; Doel, Peter; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Estrada, Juan; Etherington, James; Evrard, August E.; Fabbri, Joanna; Finley, David A.; Flaugher, Brenna; Foley, Ryan Joseph; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Frieman, Joshua A.; García-Bellido, Juan; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Gerdes, David W.; Giannantonio,Tommaso; Goldstein, Daniel Abraham; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Guarnieri, P.; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Hartley, William; Honscheid, K. (Klaus); Jain, Bhuvnesh; James, David J.; Jeltema, Tesla E.; Jouvel, Stéphanie; Kessler, Richard S.; King, Anthea L.; Kirk, Donnacha; Kron, Richard G.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Li, T. S.; Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira; Lin, H.; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Makler, Martín; Manera, Marc; Maraston, Claudia; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Martini, Paul; McMahon, Richard G.; Melchior, Peter M.; Merson, Alexander I.; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Mohr, Joseph J.; Morice-Atkinson, Xan; Naidoo, Krishna; Neilsen, Eric H.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Ostrovski, F.; Palmese, A.; Papadopoulos, Andreas; Peiris, Hiranya V.; Peoples, John; Percival, Will J.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Reed, Sophie L.; Refregier, Alexandre; Romer, Anita K.; Roodman, Aaron; Ross, A.J.; Rozo, Eduardo; Rykoff, Eli; Sadeh, Iftach; Sako, Masao; Sánchez Alonso, Carles; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Sheldon, Erin; Smith, Matthew Wilson L.; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Soumagnac, Maayane Tamar; Suchyta, Eric; Sullivan, Mark; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thaler, Jon J.; Thomas, D.; Thomas, Rollin C.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Vieira, J. D.; Vikram, Vinu; Walker, Alistair; Wechsler, Risa H.; Weller, Jochen; Wester, William Carl; Whiteway, L.; Wilcox, Harry George; Yanny, Brian; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Zuntz, J.; DES Collaboration (2016) [Journal article]
      This overview paper describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the DES early data. DES is using a wide-field camera ...