• A stellar overdensity associated with the Small Magellanic Cloud 

      Pieres, Adriano; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Bechtol, Keith; Marel, Roeland Paul van der; Besla, Gurtina; Martin, Nicolas F.; Belokurov, Vasily; Gallart, Carme; Martínez-Delgado, David; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Nöel, N. E. D.; Majewski, Steven Raymond; Cioni, Maria-Rosa L.; Li, T. S.; Hartley, William; Luque Canaza, Elmer Fidel; Conn, Blair Campbell; Walker, Alistair; Balbinot, Eduardo; Stringfellow, Guy S.; Olsen, Knut A. G.; Nidever, D.L.; Costa, Luiz N. da; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Annis, James T.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Doel, Peter; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; García-Bellido, Juan; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gschwend, Julia de Figueiredo; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Honscheid, K.; James, David J.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Menanteau, Felipe; Miquel, Ramon; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Romer, Anita K.; Sako, Mari; 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.; Wester, William Carl (2017) [Artigo de periódico]
      We report the discovery of a stellar overdensity 8◦ north of the centre of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC; Small Magellanic Cloud Northern Over-Density; SMCNOD), using data from the first 2 yr of the Dark Energy Survey ...
    • A study of quasar selection in the supernova fields of the Dark Energy Survey 

      Tie, Suk Sien; Martini, Paul; Mudd, Dale; Ostrovski, F.; Reed, Sophie L.; Lidman, Chris; Kochanek, C.S.; Davis, Tamara M.; Sharp, Robert G.; Uddin, Syed; King, Anthea L.; Wester, William Carl; Tucker, Bradley; Tucker, Douglas L.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Carollo, Daniela; Childress, Michael; Glazebrook, Karl; Hinton, Samuel; Lewis, Geraint F.; Macaulay, Edward; O'Neill, C. R.; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Annis, James T.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; Costa, Luiz N. da; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Doel, Peter; Eifler, Tim; Evrard, August E.; Finley, David A.; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Frieman, Joshua A.; García-Bellido, Juan; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Gerdes, David W.; Goldstein, Daniel Abraham; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Honscheid, K.; James, David J.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Menanteau, Felipe; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Romer, Anita K.; 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; Thomas, D.; Walker, Alistair; DES Collaboration (2017) [Artigo de periódico]
      We present a study of quasar selection using the supernova fields of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We used a quasar catalog from an overlapping portion of the SDSS Stripe 82 region to quantify the completeness and efficiency ...
    • 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) [Artigo de periódico]
      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 ...
    • The Dark Energy Survey view of the Sagittarius stream : discovery of two faint stellar system candidates 

      Luque Canaza, Elmer Fidel; Pieres, Adriano; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Yanny, Brian; Vivas, Anna Katherina; Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Morganson, Eric; Balbinot, Eduardo; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Li, T. S.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Costa, Luiz N. da; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Bechtol, Keith; Kim, A. G.; Bernstein, Gary M.; Dodelson, Scott; Whiteway, L.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Finley, David A.; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Annis, James T.; 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.; Desai, S.; Doel, Peter; Evrard, August E.; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Gerdes, David W.; Goldstein, Daniel Abraham; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; James, David J.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Martini, Paul; Miquel, Ramon; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Romer, Anita K.; 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; Thomas, D.; Walker, Alistair (2017) [Artigo de periódico]
      We report the discovery of two new candidate stellar systems in the constellation of Cetus using the data from the first two years of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The objects, DES J0111−1341 and DES J0225+0304, are located ...
    • The evolution of active galactic nuclei in clusters of galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey 

      Bufanda, E.; Hollowood, D.; Jeltema, Tesla E.; Rykoff, Eli; Rozo, Eduardo; Martini, Paul; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Banerji, M.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; Costa, Luiz N. da; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Dietrich, Jörg P.; Evrard, August E.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Flaugher, Brenna; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gerdes, David W.; Goldstein, Daniel Abraham; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Honscheid, K.; James, David J.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Melchior, Peter M.; Miquel, Ramon; Mohr, Joseph J.; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Romer, Anita K.; Rooney, Philip J.; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Tarle, Gregory; Thomas, D.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Walker, Alistair; DES Collaboration (2017) [Artigo de periódico]
      The correlation between active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and environment provides important clues to AGN fuelling and the relationship of black hole growth to galaxy evolution. In this paper, we analyse the fraction of galaxies ...
    • The Phoenix stream : a cold stream in the southern hemisphere 

      Balbinot, Eduardo; Yanny, Brian; Li, T. S.; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Finley, David A.; Pieres, Adriano; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; 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; Costa, Luiz N. da; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Doel, Peter; Estrada, Juan; Flaugher, Brenna; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gerdes, David W.; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Honscheid, K.; James, David J.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; March, Marisa Cristina; Martini, Paul; Miquel, Ramon; Nichol, Robert C.; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Romer, Anita K.; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Tarle, Gregory; Thomas, D.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Walker, Alistair; DES Collaboration (2016) [Artigo de periódico]
      We report the discovery of a stellar stream in the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (Y1A1) data. The discovery was made through simple color–magnitude filters and visual inspection of the Y1A1 data. We refer to this new object ...
    • The redMaPPer galaxy cluster catalog from des science verification data 

      Rykoff, Eli; Rozo, Eduardo; Hollowood, D.; Bermeo-Hernandez, A.; Jeltema, Tesla E.; Mayers, Julian A.; Romer, Anita K.; Rooney, Philip J.; Saro, Alexandro; Cervantes, C. Vergara; Wechsler, Risa H.; Wilcox, Harry George; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Annis, James T.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Burke, David Lyle; Capozzi, Diego; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Castander Serentill, Francisco Javier; Childress, Michael; Collins, C. A.; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Costa, Luiz N. da; Davis, Tamara M.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Dietrich, Jörg P.; Doel, Peter; Evrard, August E.; Finley, David A.; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Frieman, Joshua A.; Glazebrook, Karl; Goldstein, Daniel Abraham; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Hilton, Matt; Honscheid, K.; Hoyle, Ben; James, David J.; Kay, Scott; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Lewis, Geraint F.; Lidman, Chris; Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Mann, Robert G.; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Martini, Paul; Melchior, Peter M.; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Mohr, Joseph J.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Reil, Kevin; Sahlén, Martin; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Stott, John P.; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thomas, D.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Uddin, Syed; Viana, Pedro T. P.; Vikram, Vinu; Walker, Alistair; Zhang, Yuanyuan; DES Collaboration (2016) [Artigo de periódico]
      We describe updates to the redMaPPer algorithm, a photometric red-sequence cluster finder specifically designed for large photometric surveys. The updated algorithm is applied to 150 deg2 of Science Verification (SV) data ...