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