• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...