• 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 ...
    • 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) [Artigo de periódico]
      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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Nearest neighbor : the low-mass Milky Way satellite Tucana III 

      Simon, Josh D.; Li, T. S.; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Bechtol, Keith; Marshall, Jennifer L.; James, David J.; Wang, M.; Strigari, Louis E.; Balbinot, Eduardo; Kuehn, Kyler; Walker, Alistair; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Allam, Sahar S.; Annis, James T.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; 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.; Doel, Peter; Fernandez, Enrique; Flaugher, Brenna; Frieman, Joshua A.; García-Bellido, Juan; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Goldstein, Daniel Abraham; Gruen, Daniel; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Martini, Paul; Menanteau, Felipe; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Neilsen, Eric H.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Romer, Anita K.; Rykoff, Eli; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Whiteway, L.; Yanny, Brian; DES Collaboration (2017) [Artigo de periódico]
      We present Magellan/IMACS spectroscopy of the recently discovered Milky Way satellite TucanaIII (Tuc III). We identify 26 member stars in TucIII from which we measure a mean radial velocity of vhel=−102.3±0.4 (stat.)±2.0(sys.) ...
    • Photometric redshift analysis in the Dark Energy Survey science verification data 

      Sánchez Alonso, Carles; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Lin, H.; Serra Ricart, Miquel; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Amara, Adam; Banerji, M.; Bonnet, Christopher Clive; Brunner, Robert J.; Capozzi, Diego; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Castander Serentill, Francisco Javier; Costa, Luiz N. da; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Gerdes, David W.; Greisel, N.; Gschwend, Julia de Figueiredo; Hartley, William; Jouvel, Stéphanie; Lahav, Ofer; Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Martí, P.; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Ostrovski, F.; Pellegrini, Paulo Sérgio de Souza; Rau, Markus Michael; Sadeh, Iftach; Seitz, Stella; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Sypniewski, Adam J.; Vicente, J. de; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Allam, Sahar S.; Atlee, David; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bernstein, Joseph P.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Childress, Michael; Davis, Tamara M.; DePoy, Darren L.; Dey, Arjun; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Doel, Peter; Estrada, Juan; Evrard, August E.; Fernandez, Enrique; Finley, David A.; Flaugher, Brenna; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Glazebrook, Karl; Honscheid, K.; Kim, A. G.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lidman, Chris; Makler, Martín; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Nichol, Robert C.; Roodman, Aaron; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Sako, Masao; Scalzo, Richard; Smith, Robert Christopher; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thomas, D.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Uddin, Syed; Valdes, Francisco; Walker, Alistair; Yuan, Fang; Zuntz, J. (2014) [Artigo de periódico]
      We present results from a study of the photometric redshift performance of the Dark Energy Survey (DES), using the early data from a Science Verification period of observations in late 2012 and early 2013 that provided ...
    • 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) [Artigo de periódico]
      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) [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, ...
    • 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) [Artigo de periódico]
      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 ...