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Publications (28)

astro-ph.GA2015

OzDES multi-fibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: first-year operation and results

Fang Yuan, C. Lidman, T. M. Davis +99

OzDES is a five-year, 100-night, spectroscopic survey on the Anglo-Australian Telescope, whose primary aim is to measure redshifts of approximately 2,500 Type Ia supernovae host ga…

astro-ph.HE2015

Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from DES Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Candidates with Fermi-LAT Data

LAT Collaboration, The DES Collaboration, A. Drlica-Wagner +123

Due to their proximity, high dark-matter content, and apparent absence of non-thermal processes, Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) are excellent targets for the…

astro-ph.HE2015

DES13S2cmm: The First Superluminous Supernova from the Dark Energy Survey

A. Papadopoulos, C. B. D'Andrea, M. Sullivan +66

We present DES13S2cmm, the first spectroscopically-confirmed superluminous supernova (SLSN) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We briefly discuss the data and search algorithm used…

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.GA2015

Eight New Milky Way Companions Discovered in First-Year Dark Energy Survey Data

The DES Collaboration, K. Bechtol, A. Drlica-Wagner +91

We report the discovery of eight new Milky Way companions in ~1,800 deg^2 of optical imaging data collected during the first year of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Each system is id…

astro-ph.CO2010

PHAT: PHoto-z Accuracy Testing

H. Hildebrandt, S. Arnouts, P. Capak +22

Here we introduce PHAT, the PHoto-z Accuracy Testing programme, an international initiative to test and compare different methods of photo-z estimation. Two different test environm…