• 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) [Artigo de periódico]
      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) [Artigo de periódico]
      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 ...
    • 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) [Artigo de periódico]
      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 ...
    • 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) [Artigo de periódico]
      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 ...
    • 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) [Artigo de periódico]
      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, ...