• 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 populations in massive galaxy clusters to z = 1.1 : colour distribution, concentration, halo occupation number and red sequence fraction 

      Hennig, C.; Mohr, Joseph J.; Zenteno, Alfredo; Desai, S.; Dietrich, Jörg P.; Bocquet, Sebastian; Strazzullo, Veronica; Saro, Alexandro; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Bayliss, Matthew B.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Capasso, Raffaella; Capozzi, Diego; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Chiu, I. Non Tim; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Costa, Luiz N. da; Diehl, H. Thomas; Doel, Peter; Eifler, Tim; Evrard, August E.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gangkofner, C.; Gonzalez, Anthony; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gupta, Nayantara; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Honscheid, K.; Hlavacek-Larrondo, Julie; James, David J.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; March, Marisa Cristina; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Martini, Paul; McDonald, Michael Kenneth; Melchior, Peter M.; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Neilsen, Eric H.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Reichardt, Christian L.; Romer, Anita K.; Rozo, Eduardo; Rykoff, Eli; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Stalder, Brian; Stanford, Spencer Adam; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thomas, D.; Vikram, Vinu; Walker, Alistair; Zhang, Yuanyuan (2017) [Artigo de periódico]
      We study the galaxy populations in 74 Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect selected clusters from the South Pole Telescope survey, which have been imaged in the science verification phase of the Dark Energy Survey. The sample extends ...
    • 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, ...
    • 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 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 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 ...