• An independent method for determining the age of the universe 

      Winget, Donald Earl; Liebert, James; Horn, H.M. van; Fontaine, Gilles; Nather, R. Edward; Kepler, Souza Oliveira; Lamb, Donald Q.; Hansen, Carl J.; Hasen, C.J. (1987) [Artigo de periódico]
      The oldest white dwarf stars in the solar neighborhood are still observable, and their luminosity distribution can be used to determine directly the age of the Galactic disk and, somewhat less directly, the age of the ...
    • First cosmology results using SNe Ia from the dark energy survey : analysis, systematic uncertainties, and validation 

      Brout, Dillon J.; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; DES Collaboration (2019) [Artigo de periódico]
      We present the analysis underpinning the measurement of cosmological parameters from 207 spectroscopically classified SNe Ia from the first 3 years of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN), spanning a redshift ...
    • Inferring S8(z) and γ (z) with cosmic growth rate measurements using machine learning 

      Avila, Felipe; Bernui, Armando; Bonilla, Alexander; Nunes, Rafael da Costa (2022) [Artigo de periódico]
      Measurements of the cosmological parameter S8 provided by cosmic microwave background and large scale structure data reveal some tension between them, suggesting that the clustering features of matter in these early and ...
    • Modeling the transfer function for the Dark Energy Survey 

      Chang, Chihway; Busha, M. T.; Wechsler, Risa H.; Refregier, Alexandre; Amara, Adam; Rykoff, Eli; Becker, Matthew R.; Bruderer, Claudio; Gamper, L.; Leistedt, Boris; Peiris, Hiranya V.; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Balbinot, Eduardo; Banerji, M.; Bernstein, Rebecca A.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Desai, S.; Costa, Luiz N. da; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; Eifler, Tim; Evrard, August E.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Gerdes, David W.; Gruen, Daniel; James, David J.; Kuehn, Kyler; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Makler, Martín; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Zuntz, J. (2015) [Artigo de periódico]
      We present a forward-modeling simulation framework designed to model the data products from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). This forward-model process can be thought of as a transfer function—amapping from cosmological/ ...
    • New cosmological constraints on f(T) gravity in light of full Planck-CMB and type Ia supernovae data 

      Kumar, Suresh; Nunes, Rafael da Costa; Yadav, Priya (2023) [Artigo de periódico]
      We investigate two new observational perspectives in the context of torsional gravitational modification of general relativity, i.e., the f(T) gravity: (i) We use Pantheon data of type Ia supernovae motivated by a time ...
    • SDSS-III : massive spectroscopic surveys of the distant universe, the Milk Way, and extra-solar planetary systems 

      Eisenstein, Daniel, J.; Weinberg, D.H.; Agol, Eric; Aihara, H.; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Anderson, S.F.; Arns, James A.; Aubourg, Éric; Bailey, Stephen; Balbinot, Eduardo; Barkhouser, Robert; Beers, T.C.; Berlind, Andreas A.; Bickerton, S.J.; Bizyaev, D.; Blanton, M.R.; Bochanski, J.J.; Bolton, Adam S.; Bosman, Casey T.; Bovy, Jo; Brandt, W.N.; Breslauer, Ben; Brewington, Howard J.; Brinkmann, Jon; Brown, Peter J.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Burger, Dan; Busca, Nicolas G.; Campbell, Heather; Cargile, Phillip A.; Carithers, William C.; Carlberg, J.K.; Carr, M.A.; Chang, Liang; Chen, Yanmei; Chiappini, C.C.M.; Comparat, Johan; Connolly, Natalia; Cortes, Marina; Croft, Rupert A.C.; Cunha, Katia; Costa, Luiz N. da; Davenport, J.R.A.; Dawson, K.S.; De Lee, Nathan M.; Mello, Gustavo Frederico Porto de; De Simoni, Fernando S.; Dean, Janice; Dhital, S.; Ealet, Anne; Ebelke, Garrett L.; Edmondson, E.M.; Eiting, J.M.; Escoffier, Stephanie; Esposito, Massimiliano; Evans, M.L.; Fan, Xiaohui; Femenía Castellá, B.; Ferreira, Letícia D.; Fitzgerald, Greg; Fleming, S.W.; Font-Ribera, A.; Ford, Eric B.; Frinchaboy, P.M.; García Pérez, Ana Elia; Gaudi, B. S.; Ge, Jian; Ghezzi, Luan; Gillespie, Bruce A.; Gilmore, Gerry; Girardi, Leo Alberto; Gott, J. Richard; Gould, Andrew; Grebel, Eva K.; Gunn, James E.; Hamilton, J.C.; Harding, Paul; Harris, D.W.; Hawley, Suzanne L.; Hearty, Frederick R.; Hennawi, J.F.; González Hernández, Jonay I.; Ho, Shirley; Hogg, D.W.; Holtzman, J.A.; Honscheid, K.; Inada, Naohisa; Ivans, Inese I.; Jiang, L.; Jiang, Peng; Johnson, J.A.; Jordan, Cathy; Jordan, W.P.; Kauffmann, Guinevere; Kazin, Eyal A.; Kirkby, David; Klaene, Mark A.; Knapp, G. R.; Kneib, J.P.; Kochanek, C.S.; Koesterke, L.; Kollmeier, Juna A.; Kron, Richard G.; Lampeitl, Hubert; Lang, Dustin; Lawler, J.E.; Le Goff, Jean-Marc; Lee, B.L.; Lee, Y.S.; Leisenring, J.M.; Lin, Y.-T.; Liu, Jian; Long, Daniel C.; Loomis, Craig P.; Lucatello, Sara; Lundgren, B.; Lupton, R.H.; Ma, Bo; Ma, Zhibo; Macdonald, Nicholas; Mack, C. E.; Mahadevan, Suvrath; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Majewski, Steven Raymond; Makler, Martín; Malanushenko, E.; Malanushenko, V.; Mandelbaum, Rachel; Maraston, Claudia; Margala, D.; Maseman, P.A.; Masters, K.L.; McBride, Cameron K.; McDonald, Patrick; McGreer, Ian D.; McMahon, Richard G.; Mena Requejo, Olga; Ménard, Brice; Miralda-Escudé, J.; Morrison, H.L.; Mullally, Fergal; Muna, Demitri; Murayama, H.; Myers, A.D.; Naugle, Tracy; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Nguyen, D.C.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nidever, D.L.; O'Connell, Robert West; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Olmstead, Matthew D.; Oravetz, Daniel J.; Padmanabhan, N.; Paegert, Martin; Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie; Pan, K.; Pandey, Parul; Parejko, J.K.; Pâris, Isabelle; Pellegrini, Paulo Sérgio de Souza; Pepper, J.; Percival, Will J.; Petitjean, P.; Pfaffenberger, Robert; Pforr, J.; Phleps, Stefanie; Pichon, C,; Pieri, Matthew M.; Prada, F.; Price-Whelan, Adrian M.; Raddick, M. Jordan; Ramos, Beatriz H.F.; Reid, I. Neill; Reylé, Céline; Rich, J.; Richards, G.T.; Rieke, G.H.; Rieke, M.J.; Rix, H.-W.; Robin, A.C.; Rocha-Pinto, H.J.; Rockosi, C.M.; Roe, Natalie A.; Rollinde, Emmanuel; Ross, A.J.; Ross, Nicholas P.; Rossetto, Bruno M.; Sánchez, Ariel G.; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Sayres, Conor; Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Schlegel, David J.; Schlesinger, K.J.; Schmidt, Sarah. J.; Schneider, D.P.; Sellgren, K.; Bradley, Alaina C. Shelden; Sheldon, Erin; Shetrone, M.; Shu, Yiping; Silverman, J.D.; Simmerer, Jennifer; Simmons, Audrey E.; Sivarani, Thirupathi; Skrutskie, M.F.; Slosar, A.; Smee, Stephen; Smith, Verne V.; Snedden, S.A.; Stassun, Keivan G.; Steele, Oliver; Steinmetz, M.; Stockett, Mark H.; Stollberg, Todd; Strauss, Michael A.; Szalay, A.S.; Tanaka, M.; Thakar, Aniruddha; Thomas, D.; Tinker, Jeremy; Tofflemire, Benjamin M.; Tojeiro, R.; Tremonti, Christy A.; Vargas Magaña, Mariana; Verde, Licia; Vogt, N.P.; Wake, D.A.; Wan, Xiaoke; Wang, Ji; Weaver, Benjamin A.; White, M.; White, Simon D. M.; Wilson, J.C.; Wisniewski, J.P.; Wood-Vasey, W.M.; Yanny, Brian; Yasuda, Naoki; Yèche, Christophe; York, Donald G.; Young, E.; Zasowski, G.; Zehavi, I.; Zhao, Bo (2011) [Artigo de periódico]
      Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of ...
    • Star/galaxy separation at faint magnitudes : application to a simulated Dark Energy Survey 

      Soumagnac, Maayane Tamar; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Lahav, Ofer; Kirk, Donnacha; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Bertin, Emmanuel; Rowe, Barnaby T. P.; Annis, James T.; Busha, M. T.; Costa, Luiz N. da; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Jarvis, Michael; Lin, H.; Percival, Will J.; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Sabiu, Cristiano Giovanni; Wechsler, Risa H.; Wolz, Laura; Yanny, Brian (2015) [Artigo de periódico]
      We address the problem of separating stars from galaxies in future large photometric surveys. We focus our analysis on simulations of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). In the first part of the paper, we derive the science ...
    • STRIDES : a 3.9 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant from the strong lens system DES J0408−5354 

      Shajib, Anowar J.; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Zhang, Yuanyuan (2020) [Artigo de periódico]
      We present a blind time-delay cosmographic analysis for the lens system DES J0408−5354. This system is extraordinary for the presence of two sets of multiple images at different redshifts, which provide the opportunity to ...
    • The DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey Data Release 2 

      Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; DELVE Collaboration; DES Collaboration (2022) [Artigo de periódico]
      We present the second public data release (DR2) from the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE). DELVE DR2 combines new DECam observations with archival DECam data from the Dark Energy Survey, the DECam Legacy Survey, ...
    • The mass and galaxy distribution around SZ-selected clusters 

      Shin, Tae-Hyeon; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Zhang, Y. (2021) [Artigo de periódico]
      We present measurements of the radial profiles of the mass and galaxy number density around Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (SZ)-selected clusters using both weak lensing and galaxy counts. The clusters are selected from the Atacama ...
    • The physical parameters of the evolving population of faint galaxies 

      Glazebrook, Karl; Abraham, Roberto G.; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Ellis, Richard S.; Griffiths, Richard E. (1998) [Artigo de periódico]
      The excess number of blue galaxies at faint magnitudes is a subject of much controversy. Recent Hubble Space Telescope results have revealed a plethora of galaxies with peculiar morphologies tentatively identified as the ...
    • The statistics of ΛCDM halo concentrations 

      Fausti Neto, Angelo; Gao, Liang; Bett, Philip; Cole, Shaun; Navarro, Julio F.; Frenk, Carlos S.; White, Simon D. M.; Springel, Volker; Jenkins, Adrian (2007) [Artigo de periódico]
      We use the Millennium Simulation (MS) to study the statistics of Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) halo concentrations at z = 0. Our results confirm that the average halo concentration declines monotonically with mass; the ...
    • The supergalactic plane revisited with the optical redshift survey 

      Lahav, Ofer; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Webster, A.M.; Strauss, Michael A.; David, M.; Dressler, A.; Huchra, John P. (2000) [Artigo de periódico]
      We re-examine the existence and extent of the planar structure in the local galaxy density field, the so-called supergalactic plane (SGP). This structure is studied here in three dimensions using both the new Optical ...
    • O universo 

      Kepler, Souza Oliveira (2010) [Artigo de periódico]
      O Universo é finito no tempo e no espaço e as observações atuais indicam que ele está se expandindo com velocidade acelerada.