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astro-ph.GA2022

A galaxy-driven model of type Ia supernova luminosity variations

P. Wiseman, M. Vincenzi, M. Sullivan +59

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are used as standardisable candles to measure cosmological distances, but differences remain in their corrected luminosities which display a magnitude s…

astro-ph.HE2023

Core-collapse Supernovae in the Dark Energy Survey: Luminosity Functions and Host Galaxy Demographics

M. Grayling, C. P. Gutiérrez, M. Sullivan +73

We present the luminosity functions and host galaxy properties of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) core-collapse supernova (CCSN) sample, consisting of 69 Type II and 50 Type Ibc spect…

astro-ph.CO2022

Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck III: Combined cosmological constraints

T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena, A. Alarcon +168

We present cosmological constraints from the analysis of two-point correlation functions between galaxy positions and galaxy lensing measured in Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 dat…

astro-ph.GA2023

Chemical Analysis of the Brightest Star of the Cetus II Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Candidate

K. B. Webber, T. T. Hansen, J. L. Marshall +42

We present a detailed chemical abundance analysis of the brightest star in the ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxy candidate Cetus II from high-resolution Magellan/MIKE spectra. For thi…

astro-ph.IM2022

The DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey Data Release 2

A. Drlica-Wagner, P. S. Ferguson, M. Adamów +121

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…

astro-ph.EP2021

A search of the full six years of the Dark Energy Survey for outer Solar System objects

Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Gary M. Bernstein, Masao Sako +64

We present the results of a search for outer Solar System objects in the full six years of data (Y6) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The DES covered a contiguous deg

astro-ph.CO2025

Selection Function of Clusters in Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Data from Cross-Matching with South Pole Telescope Detections

S. Grandis, M. Costanzi, J. J. Mohr +52

Galaxy clusters selected based on overdensities of galaxies in photometric surveys provide the largest cluster samples. Yet modeling the selection function of such samples is compl…

astro-ph.CO2023

Non-local contribution from small scales in galaxy-galaxy lensing: Comparison of mitigation schemes

J. Prat, G. Zacharegkas, Y. Park +112

Recent cosmological analyses with large-scale structure and weak lensing measurements, usually referred to as 32pt, had to discard a lot of signal-to-noise from small scale…

astro-ph.CO2022

Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck II: Cross-correlation measurements and cosmological constraints

C. Chang, Y. Omori, E. J. Baxter +163

Cross-correlations of galaxy positions and galaxy shears with maps of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are sensitive to the distribution of large-scal…

astro-ph.CO2023

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Magnification modeling and impact on cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing

J. Elvin-Poole, N. MacCrann, S. Everett +93

We study the effect of magnification in the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing, using two different lens samples: a sample of Luminou…

astro-ph.CO2023

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Constraints on extensions to CDM with weak lensing and galaxy clustering

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena +159

We constrain extensions to the CDM model using measurements from the Dark Energy Survey's first three years of observations and external data. The DES data are the two-point co…

astro-ph.CO2022

Cosmic Shear in Harmonic Space from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Data: Compatibility with Configuration Space Results

H. Camacho, F. Andrade-Oliveira, A. Troja +96

We perform a cosmic shear analysis in harmonic space using the first year of data collected by the Dark Energy Survey (DES-Y1). We measure the cosmic weak lensing shear power spect…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey internal consistency tests of the joint cosmological probes analysis with posterior predictive distributions

C. Doux, E. Baxter, P. Lemos +85

Beyond-CDM physics or systematic errors may cause subsets of a cosmological data set to appear inconsistent when analyzed assuming CDM. We present an application of interna…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Marginalisation over redshift distribution uncertainties using ranking of discrete realisations

Juan P. Cordero, Ian Harrison, Richard P. Rollins +92

Cosmological information from weak lensing surveys is maximised by dividing source galaxies into tomographic sub-samples for which the redshift distributions are estimated. Uncerta…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: optimized CDM simulation-based inference with weak lensing map-level hybrid statistics

J. Williamson, T. L. Makinen, N. Porqueres +85

We present cosmological constraints from the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) weak lensing data using hierarchical hybrid statistics within a Bayesian simulation-based inference…

astro-ph.CO2024

Constraining cosmological parameters using the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with CMB-S4 and future galaxy cluster surveys

E. Schiappucci, S. Raghunathan, C. To +8

We present a forecast of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) measurement that will be achievable with the future CMB-S4 experiment. CMB-S4 is the next stage for ground-…

astro-ph.CO2022

Milky Way Satellite Census. IV. Constraints on Decaying Dark Matter from Observations of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies

S. Mau, E. O. Nadler, R. H. Wechsler +66

We use a recent census of the Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxy population to constrain the lifetime of particle dark matter (DM). We consider two-body decaying dark matter (DDM) in…

astro-ph.CO2023

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Corrections on photometry due to wavelength-dependent atmospheric effects

J. Lee, M. Acevedo, M. Sako +64

Wavelength-dependent atmospheric effects impact photometric supernova flux measurements for ground-based observations. We present corrections on supernova flux measurements from th…

astro-ph.IM2020

Reducing ground-based astrometric errors with Gaia and Gaussian processes

W. F. Fortino, G. M. Bernstein, P. H. Bernardinelli +64

Stochastic field distortions caused by atmospheric turbulence are a fundamental limitation to the astrometric accuracy of ground-based imaging. This distortion field is measurable…

astro-ph.CO2026

Constraints on the normal branch of DGP gravity from SPT galaxy clusters with DES and HST weak-lensing mass calibration and from Planck PR4 CMB anisotropies

S. M. L. Vogt, S. Bocquet, C. T. Davies +49

We present constraints on the normal branch of the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (nDGP) braneworld gravity model from the abundance of massive galaxy clusters. On scales below the nDGP c…

astro-ph.EP2021

C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein): the nearly spherical cow of comets

Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Gary M. Bernstein, Benjamin T. Montet +64

C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is a comet incoming from the Oort cloud which is remarkable in having the brightest (and presumably largest) nucleus of any well-measured com…

astro-ph.GA2026

OzDES Reverberation Mapping of Active Galactic Nuclei: Final Data Release, Black-Hole Mass Results, & Scaling Relations

H. McDougall, T. M. Davis, Z. Yu +53

Over the last decade, the Australian Dark Energy (OzDES) collaboration has used Reverberation Mapping to measure the masses of high redshift supermassive black holes. Here we prese…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Multi-Probe Modeling Strategy and Validation

E. Krause, X. Fang, S. Pandey +121

This paper details the modeling pipeline and validates the baseline analysis choices of the DES Year 3 joint analysis of galaxy clustering and weak lensing (a so-called "32…

astro-ph.CO2021

Galaxy-galaxy lensing with the DES-CMASS catalogue: measurement and constraints on the galaxy-matter cross-correlation

S. Lee, M. A. Troxel, A. Choi +90

The DMASS sample is a photometric sample from the DES Year 1 data set designed to replicate the properties of the CMASS sample from BOSS, in support of a joint analysis of DES and…

astro-ph.GA2024

OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: Stacking analysis with H, Mg II and C IV

Umang Malik, Rob Sharp, A. Penton +47

Reverberation mapping is the leading technique used to measure direct black hole masses outside of the local Universe. Additionally, reverberation measurements calibrate secondary…

astro-ph.CO2021

Spectroscopic Quantification of Projection Effects in the SDSS redMaPPer Galaxy Cluster Catalogue

J. Myles, D. Gruen, A. B. Mantz +12

Projection effects, whereby galaxies along the line-of-sight to a galaxy cluster are mistakenly associated with the cluster halo, present a significant challenge for optical cluste…

astro-ph.CO2021

Cross-correlation of DES Y3 lensing and ACT/ thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect I: Measurements, systematics tests, and feedback model constraints

M. Gatti, S. Pandey, E. Baxter +126

We present a tomographic measurement of the cross-correlation between thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) maps from and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and weak ga…

astro-ph.CO2021

Finding quadruply imaged quasars with machine learning. I. Methods

A. Akhazhanov, A. More, A. Amini +68

Strongly lensed quadruply imaged quasars (quads) are extraordinary objects. They are very rare in the sky -- only a few tens are known to date -- and yet they provide unique inform…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Galaxy clustering and systematics treatment for lens galaxy samples

M. Rodríguez-Monroy, N. Weaverdyck, J. Elvin-Poole +102

In this work we present the galaxy clustering measurements of the two DES lens galaxy samples: a magnitude-limited sample optimized for the measurement of cosmological parameters,…

astro-ph.CO2024

Galaxy Clusters Discovered via the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the 500-square-degree SPTpol Survey

L. E. Bleem, M. Klein, T. M. C. Abbott +125

We present a catalog of 689 galaxy cluster candidates detected at significance via their thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect signature in 95 and 150 GHz data from the 500…

astro-ph.CO2021

Lensing Without Borders. I. A Blind Comparison of the Amplitude of Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing Between Independent Imaging Surveys

A. Leauthaud, A. Amon, S. Singh +104

Lensing Without Borders is a cross-survey collaboration created to assess the consistency of galaxy-galaxy lensing signals () across different data-sets and to carry out end-…

astro-ph.GA2021

Rates and delay times of type Ia supernovae in the Dark Energy Survey

P. Wiseman, M. Sullivan, M. Smith +87

We use a sample of 809 photometrically classified type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) along with 40415 field galaxies to calculate the rate of SN…

astro-ph.CO2021

Consistency of cosmic shear analyses in harmonic and real space

C. Doux, C. Chang, B. Jain +67

Recent cosmic shear studies have reported discrepancies of up to on the parameter between the analysis of shear power spectra and two-po…

astro-ph.GA2021

Galaxy Morphological Classification Catalogue of the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 data with Convolutional Neural Networks

Ting-Yun Cheng, Christopher J. Conselice, Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca +57

We present in this paper one of the largest galaxy morphological classification catalogues to date, including over 20 million of galaxies, using the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3…

astro-ph.CO2020

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Catalog of > 4000 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Clusters

M. Hilton, C. Sifón, S. Naess +146

We present a catalog of 4195 optically confirmed Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) selected galaxy clusters detected with signal-to-noise > 4 in 13,211 deg of sky surveyed by the Atacama…

astro-ph.CO2021

Galaxy Clustering in Harmonic Space from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Data: Compatibility with Real-Space Results

F. Andrade-Oliveira, H. Camacho, L. Faga +70

We perform an analysis in harmonic space of the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Data (DES-Y1) galaxy clustering data using products obtained for the real-space analysis. We test our pipe…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Cosmic Shear

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena +126

We present legacy cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints using six years of Dark Energy Survey imaging data. From these data, we study ~140 million galaxies (8.29 g…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena +168

We present the first cosmology results from large-scale structure in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) spanning 5000 deg. We perform an analysis combining three two-point correlatio…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Deep Field Optical + Near-Infrared Images and Catalogue

W. G. Hartley, A. Choi, A. Amon +115

We describe the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Deep Fields, a set of images and associated multi-wavelength catalogue () built from Dark Energy Camera (DECam) and Visible and…

astro-ph.EP2025

Year six photometric measurements of known Trans-Neptunian Objects and Centaurs by the Dark Energy Survey

Feliphe S. Ferreira, Julio I. B. Camargo, Rodrigo Boufleur +60

We identified known Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) and Centaurs in the complete Dark Energy Survey (DES) year six catalog (DES Y6) through the Sky Body Tracker (SkyBoT) tool. We cl…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: cosmological constraints from the analysis of cosmic shear in harmonic space

C. Doux, B. Jain, D. Zeurcher +135

We present cosmological constraints from the analysis of angular power spectra of cosmic shear maps based on data from the first three years of observations by the Dark Energy Surv…

astro-ph.CO2020

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Cluster Abundances, Weak Lensing, and Galaxy Correlations

C. To, E. Krause, E. Rozo +105

Combining multiple observational probes is a powerful technique to provide robust and precise constraints on cosmological parameters. In this letter, we present the first joint ana…

astro-ph.CO2020

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Clustering Redshifts -- Calibration of the Weak Lensing Source Redshift Distributions with redMaGiC and BOSS/eBOSS

M. Gatti, G. Giannini, G. M. Bernstein +94

We present the calibration of the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) weak lensing source galaxy redshift distributions from clustering measurements. In particular, we cross-…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmology with peaks using an emulator approach

D. Zürcher, J. Fluri, R. Sgier +119

We constrain the matter density and the amplitude of density fluctuations within the CDM cosmological model with shear peak statistics and angular conv…

astro-ph.CO2022

Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck I: Construction of CMB Lensing Maps and Modeling Choices

Y. Omori, E. J. Baxter, C. Chang +160

Joint analyses of cross-correlations between measurements of galaxy positions, galaxy lensing, and lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) offer powerful constraints on th…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Photometric Data Set for Cosmology

I. Sevilla-Noarbe, K. Bechtol, M. Carrasco Kind +111

We describe the Dark Energy Survey (DES) photometric data set assembled from the first three years of science operations to support DES Year 3 cosmology analyses, and provide usage…

astro-ph.GA2023

A Sample of Dust Attenuation Laws for DES Supernova Host Galaxies

J. Duarte, S. González-Gaitán, A. Mourao +58

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are useful distance indicators in cosmology, provided their luminosity is standardized by applying empirical corrections based on light-curve properties…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Optimizing the Lens Sample in Combined Galaxy Clustering and Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing Analysis

A. Porredon, M. Crocce, P. Fosalba +77

We investigate potential gains in cosmological constraints from the combination of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing by optimizing the lens galaxy sample selection using…

astro-ph.HE2021

Understanding the extreme luminosity of DES14X2fna

M. Grayling, C. P. Gutiérrez, M. Sullivan +66

We present DES14X2fna, a high-luminosity, fast-declining type IIb supernova (SN IIb) at redshift , detected by the Dark Energy Survey (DES). DES14X2fna is an unusual memb…

astro-ph.CO2025

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Redshift Calibration of the MagLim++ Lens Sample

G. Giannini, A. Alarcon, W. d'Assignies +85

In this work, we derive and calibrate the redshift distribution of the MagLim++ lens galaxy sample used in the Dark Energy Survey Year 6 (DES Y6) 3x2pt cosmology analysis. The 3x2p…

astro-ph.GA2023

Cosmological shocks around galaxy clusters: A coherent investigation with DES, SPT & ACT

D. Anbajagane, C. Chang, E. J. Baxter +111

We search for signatures of cosmological shocks in gas pressure profiles of galaxy clusters using the cluster catalogs from three surveys: the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3, the…

astro-ph.CO2022

Using Host Galaxy Spectroscopy to Explore Systematics in the Standardisation of Type Ia Supernovae

M. Dixon, C. Lidman, J. Mould +75

We use stacked spectra of the host galaxies of photometrically identified type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) to search for correlations between Hubble di…

astro-ph.CO2022

STRIDES: Automated uniform models for 30 quadruply imaged quasars

T. Schmidt, T. Treu, S. Birrer +68

Gravitational time delays provide a powerful one step measurement of , independent of all other probes. One key ingredient in time delay cosmography are high accuracy lens mod…

astro-ph.CO2024

SPT Clusters with DES and HST Weak Lensing. I. Cluster Lensing and Bayesian Population Modeling of Multi-Wavelength Cluster Datasets

S. Bocquet, S. Grandis, L. E. Bleem +130

We present a Bayesian population modeling method to analyze the abundance of galaxy clusters identified by the South Pole Telescope (SPT) with a simultaneous mass calibration using…

astro-ph.GA2021

Multi-wavelength Optical and NIR Variability Analysis of the Blazar PKS 0027-426

E. Guise, S. F. Hönig, T. Almeyda +62

We present multi-wavelength spectral and temporal variability analysis of PKS 0027-426 using optical griz observations from DES (Dark Energy Survey) between 2013-2018 and VOILETTE…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Redshift Calibration of the Weak Lensing Source Galaxies

J. Myles, A. Alarcon, A. Amon +105

Determining the distribution of redshifts of galaxies observed by wide-field photometric experiments like the Dark Energy Survey is an essential component to mapping the matter den…

astro-ph.CO2022

DES Y3 results: Blending shear and redshift biases in image simulations

N. MacCrann, M. R. Becker, J. McCullough +93

As the statistical power of galaxy weak lensing reaches percent level precision, large, realistic and robust simulations are required to calibrate observational systematics, especi…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Galaxy-halo connection from galaxy-galaxy lensing

G. Zacharegkas, C. Chang, J. Prat +114

Galaxy-galaxy lensing is a powerful probe of the connection between galaxies and their host dark matter halos, which is important both for galaxy evolution and cosmology. We extend…

astro-ph.CO2023

A measurement of the mean central optical depth of galaxy clusters via the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with SPT-3G and DES

E. Schiappucci, F. Bianchini, M. Aguena +139

We infer the mean optical depth of a sample of optically-selected galaxy clusters from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) via the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. The…

astro-ph.CO2021

DES Y1 results: Splitting growth and geometry to test CDM

J. Muir, E. Baxter, V. Miranda +100

We analyze Dark Energy Survey (DES) data to constrain a cosmological model where a subset of parameters -- focusing on -- are split into versions associated with structure g…

astro-ph.CO2021

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Cosmological biases from supernova photometric classification

M. Vincenzi, M. Sullivan, A. Möller +81

Cosmological analyses of samples of photometrically-identified Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) depend on understanding the effects of 'contamination' from core-collapse and peculiar SN…

astro-ph.GA2021

Identifying RR Lyrae Variable Stars in Six Years of the Dark Energy Survey

K. M. Stringer, A. Drlica-Wagner, L. Macri +67

We present a search for RR Lyrae stars using the full six-year data set from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) covering ~5,000 sq. deg. of the southern sky. Using a multi-stage multi-va…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Covariance Modelling and its Impact on Parameter Estimation and Quality of Fit

O. Friedrich, F. Andrade-Oliveira, H. Camacho +109

We describe and test the fiducial covariance matrix model for the combined 2-point function analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES-Y3) dataset. Using a variety of new ansat…

astro-ph.CO2022

Robust sampling for weak lensing and clustering analyses with the Dark Energy Survey

P. Lemos, N. Weaverdyck, R. P. Rollins +68

Recent cosmological analyses rely on the ability to accurately sample from high-dimensional posterior distributions. A variety of algorithms have been applied in the field, but jus…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Measuring the Survey Transfer Function with Balrog

S. Everett, B. Yanny, N. Kuropatkin +97

We describe an updated calibration and diagnostic framework, Balrog, used to directly sample the selection and photometric biases of the Dark Energy Survey's (DES) Year 3 (Y3) data…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: curved-sky weak lensing mass map reconstruction

N. Jeffrey, M. Gatti, C. Chang +127

We present reconstructed convergence maps, \textit{mass maps}, from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) third year (Y3) weak gravitational lensing data set. The mass maps are weighted pro…

astro-ph.CO2025

Comparing the DES-SN5YR and Pantheon+ SN cosmology analyses: Investigation based on "Evolving Dark Energy or Supernovae systematics?"

M. Vincenzi, R. Kessler, P. Shah +65

Recent cosmological analyses measuring distances of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) have all given similar hints at time-evolving dark energy. To…

astro-ph.CO2022

The Dark Energy Survey Year 3 high redshift sample: Selection, characterization and analysis of galaxy clustering

C. Sánchez, A. Alarcon, G. M. Bernstein +97

The fiducial cosmological analyses of imaging galaxy surveys like the Dark Energy Survey (DES) typically probe the Universe at redshifts . This is mainly because of the limi…

astro-ph.CO2025

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: CDM cosmology from simulation-based inference with persistent homology on the sphere

J. Prat, M. Gatti, C. Doux +94

We present cosmological constraints from Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) weak lensing data using persistent homology, a topological data analysis technique that tracks how featu…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: cosmology from combined galaxy clustering and lensing -- validation on cosmological simulations

J. DeRose, R. H. Wechsler, M. R. Becker +114

We present a validation of the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) -point analysis choices by testing them on Buzzard v2.0, a new suite of cosmological simulations that is…

astro-ph.CO2023

DES Y3 + KiDS-1000: Consistent cosmology combining cosmic shear surveys

Dark Energy Survey, Kilo-Degree Survey Collaboration, : +160

We present a joint cosmic shear analysis of the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y3) and the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000) in a collaborative effort between the two survey teams. We find c…

astro-ph.GA2022

Optical Variability of Quasars with 20-Year Photometric Light Curves

Zachary Stone, Yue Shen, Colin J. Burke +52

We study the optical photometric variability of a sample of 190 quasars within the SDSS Stripe 82 region that have long-term photometric coverage during with…

astro-ph.GA2021

OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: The first Mg II lags from five years of monitoring

Zhefu Yu, Paul Martini, A. Penton +63

Reverberation mapping is a robust method to measure the masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) outside of the local Universe. Measurements of the radius -- luminosity () r…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Galaxy mock catalogs for BAO analysis

I. Ferrero, M. Crocce, I. Tutusaus +83

The calibration and validation of scientific analysis in simulations is a fundamental tool to ensure unbiased and robust results in observational cosmology. In particular, mock gal…

astro-ph.CO2024

Dark Energy Survey Year 3: Blue Shear

J. McCullough, A. Amon, E. Legnani +115

Modeling the intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies poses a challenge to weak lensing analyses. The Dark Energy Survey is expected to be less impacted by IA when limited to blue, sta…

astro-ph.CO2022

The Dark Energy Survey 5-year photometrically identified Type Ia Supernovae

A. Möller, M. Smith, M. Sako +80

As part of the cosmology analysis using Type Ia Supernovae (SN Ia) in the Dark Energy Survey (DES), we present photometrically identified SN Ia samples using multi-band light-curve…

astro-ph.CO2022

Cosmological Constraints from DES Y1 Cluster Abundances and SPT Multi-wavelength data

M. Costanzi, A. Saro, S. Bocquet +87

We perform a joint analysis of the counts of redMaPPer clusters selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y1 data and multi-wavelength follow-up data collected within the 2500 deg…

astro-ph.CO2022

The Dark Energy Survey Year 3 and eBOSS: constraining galaxy intrinsic alignments across luminosity and colour space

S. Samuroff, R. Mandelbaum, J. Blazek +104

We present direct constraints on galaxy intrinsic alignments using the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3), the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) and its prec…

astro-ph.EP2020

Machine Learning for Searching the Dark Energy Survey for Trans-Neptunian Objects

B. Henghes, O. Lahav, D. W. Gerdes +56

In this paper we investigate how implementing machine learning could improve the efficiency of the search for Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) within Dark Energy Survey (DES) data wh…

astro-ph.CO2026

Constraints on Dynamical Dark Energy from Multiple Probes in the Full Dark Energy Survey

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Adamow +166

We present results on dark energy evolution, assuming a time-dependent equation of state , from growth and geometric probes using the full six-year Dark Energy S…

astro-ph.CO2022

The DES Bright Arcs Survey: Candidate Strongly Lensed Galaxy Systems from the Dark Energy Survey 5,000 Sq. Deg. Footprint

J. H. O'Donnell, R. D. Wilkinson, H. T. Diehl +79

We report the combined results of eight searches for strong gravitational lens systems in the full 5,000 sq. deg. of Dark Energy Survey (DES) observations. The observations accumul…

astro-ph.CO2025

The SPT-Deep Cluster Catalog: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Selected Clusters from Combined SPT-3G and SPTpol Measurements over 100 Square Degrees

K. Kornoelje, L. E. Bleem, E. S. Rykoff +191

We present a catalog of 500 galaxy cluster candidates in the SPT-Deep field: a 100 deg field that combines data from the SPT-3G and SPTpol surveys to reach noise levels of 3.0,…

astro-ph.CO2023

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Redshift Calibration of the MagLim Lens Sample from the combination of SOMPZ and clustering and its impact on Cosmology

G. Giannini, A. Alarcon, M. Gatti +111

We present an alternative calibration of the MagLim lens sample redshift distributions from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) first three years of data (Y3). The new calibration is base…

astro-ph.CO2022

DeepZipper: A Novel Deep Learning Architecture for Lensed Supernovae Identification

Robert Morgan, B. Nord, K. Bechtol +48

Large-scale astronomical surveys have the potential to capture data on large numbers of strongly gravitationally lensed supernovae (LSNe). To facilitate timely analysis and spectro…

astro-ph.CO2025

Weak Lensing Mass Calibration of the ACT DR5 Galaxy Clusters with the DES Year 3 Weak Lensing Data

T. Shin, E. J. Baxter, E. Lee +93

We use weak gravitational lensing measurements from Year 3 Dark Energy Survey data to calibrate the masses of 443 galaxy clusters selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from At…

astro-ph.GA2023

Identification of Galaxy-Galaxy Strong Lens Candidates in the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey Using Machine Learning

E. A. Zaborowski, A. Drlica-Wagner, F. Ashmead +88

We perform a search for galaxy-galaxy strong lens systems using a convolutional neural network (CNN) applied to imaging data from the first public data release of the DECam Local V…

astro-ph.HE2023

Designing an Optimal Kilonova Search using DECam for Gravitational Wave Events

C. R. Bom, J. Annis, A. Garcia +67

We address the problem of optimally identifying all kilonovae detected via gravitational wave emission in the upcoming LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Collaboration observing run, O4, which is ex…

astro-ph.CO2023

SPT-SZ MCMF: An extension of the SPT-SZ catalog over the DES region

M. Klein, J. J. Mohr, S. Bocquet +104

We present an extension to a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) selected cluster catalog based on observations from the South Pole Telescope (SPT); this catalog extends to lower signa…

astro-ph.CO2021

The WaZP galaxy cluster sample of the Dark Energy Survey Year 1

M. Aguena, C. Benoist, L. N. da Costa +57

We present a new (2+1)D galaxy cluster finder based on photometric redshifts called Wavelet Z Photometric (WaZP) applied to DES first year (Y1A1) data. The results are compared to…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Cosmological Analysis and Systematic Uncertainties

M. Vincenzi, D. Brout, P. Armstrong +93

We present the full Hubble diagram of photometrically-classified Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Dark Energy Survey supernova program (DES-SN). DES-SN discovered more than 20,…

astro-ph.CO2024

Evaluating Cosmological Biases using Photometric Redshifts for Type Ia Supernova Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program

R. Chen, D. Scolnic, M. Vincenzi +73

Cosmological analyses with Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) have traditionally been reliant on spectroscopy for both classifying the type of supernova and obtaining reliable redshifts t…

astro-ph.CO2023

The Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with ACT, DES, and BOSS: a Novel Hybrid Estimator

M. Mallaby-Kay, S. Amodeo, J. C. Hill +80

The kinematic and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ and tSZ) effects probe the abundance and thermodynamics of ionized gas in galaxies and clusters. We present a new hybrid estimator…

astro-ph.CO2026

The Dark Energy Camera All Data Everywhere cosmic shear project V: Constraints on cosmology and astrophysics from 270 million galaxies across 13,000 deg of the sky

D. Anbajagane, C. Chang, A. Drlica-Wagner +78

The paper presents cosmological and astrophysical constraints derived from cosmic shear measurements of 270 million galaxies covering 13,000 deg², combining data from the DECADE pr…

#cosmic shear#large-scale structure#dark energy#baryonic effects
astro-ph.CO2026

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: A Reanalysis Of Cosmology Results And Evidence For Evolving Dark Energy With An Updated Type Ia Supernova Calibration

B. Popovic, P. Shah, W. D. Kenworthy +80

We present improved cosmological constraints from a re-analysis of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) 5-year sample of Type Ia supernovae (DES-SN5YR). This re-analysis includes an improv…

astro-ph.CO2022

Superclustering with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and Dark Energy Survey: I. Evidence for thermal energy anisotropy using oriented stacking

M. Lokken, R. Hložek, A. van Engelen +104

The cosmic web contains filamentary structure on a wide range of scales. On the largest scales, superclustering aligns multiple galaxy clusters along inter-cluster bridges, visible…

astro-ph.SR2023

Ultracool dwarfs candidates based on six years of the Dark Energy Survey data

M. dal Ponte, B. Santiago, A. Carnero Rosell +57

We present a sample of 19,583 ultracool dwarf candidates brighter than z selected from the Dark Energy Survey DR2 coadd data matched to VHS DR6, VIKING DR5 and AllWISE co…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Calibration of Lens Sample Redshift Distributions using Clustering Redshifts with BOSS/eBOSS

R. Cawthon, J. Elvin-Poole, A. Porredon +83

We present clustering redshift measurements for Dark Energy Survey (DES) lens sample galaxies to be used in weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering studies. To perform thi…

astro-ph.CO2022

Cross-correlation of DES Y3 lensing and ACT/ thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect II: Modeling and constraints on halo pressure profiles

S. Pandey, M. Gatti, E. Baxter +121

Hot, ionized gas leaves an imprint on the cosmic microwave background via the thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect. The cross-correlation of gravitational lensing (which traces…

astro-ph.GA2021

Pushing automated morphological classifications to their limits with the Dark Energy Survey

J. Vega-Ferrero, H. Domínguez Sánchez, M. Bernardi +60

We present morphological classifications of 27 million galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Data Release 1 (DR1) using a supervised deep learning algorithm. The classif…

astro-ph.CO2020

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Modelling selection efficiency and observed core collapse supernova contamination

M. Vincenzi, M. Sullivan, O. Graur +79

The analysis of current and future cosmological surveys of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at high-redshift depends on the accurate photometric classification of the SN events detected…