Publications (222)
Cosmic Voids and Void Lensing in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data
C. Sánchez, J. Clampitt, A. Kovacs +69
Galaxies and their dark matter halos populate a complicated filamentary network around large, nearly empty regions known as cosmic voids. Cosmic voids are usually identified in spe…
Constraints on the Richness-Mass Relation and the Optical-SZE Positional Offset Distribution for SZE-Selected Clusters
A. Saro, S. Bocquet, E. Rozo +99
We cross-match galaxy cluster candidates selected via their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) signatures in 129.1 deg of the South Pole Telescope 2500d SPT-SZ survey with optical…
Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: improved mitigation of spatially varying observational systematics with masking
M. RodrÃguez-Monroy, N. Weaverdyck, J. Elvin-Poole +63
As photometric surveys reach unprecedented statistical precision, systematic uncertainties increasingly dominate large-scale structure probes relying on galaxy number density. Defi…
Clustering of Photometric Luminous Red Galaxies II: Cosmological Implications from the Baryon Acoustic Scale
A. Carnero, E. Sanchez, M. Crocce +2
A new determination of the sound horizon scale in angular coordinates is presented. It makes use of ~ 0.6 x 10^6 Luminous Red Galaxies, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey i…
Renormalized Cosmological Perturbation Theory
M. Crocce, R. Scoccimarro
We develop a new formalism to study nonlinear evolution in the growth of large-scale structure, by following the dynamics of gravitational clustering as it builds up in time. This…
Euclid preparation. The impact of redshift interlopers on the two-point correlation function analysis
Euclid Collaboration, I. Risso, A. Veropalumbo +317
The Euclid survey aims to measure the spectroscopic redshift of emission-line galaxies by identifying the H line in their slitless spectra. This method is sensitive to the si…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Weak Lensing Mass Calibration of redMaPPer Galaxy Clusters
T. McClintock, T. N. Varga, D. Gruen +99
We constrain the mass--richness scaling relation of redMaPPer galaxy clusters identified in the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 data using weak gravitational lensing. We split clusters i…
Cosmological parameter constraints from SDSS luminous red galaxies: a new treatment of large-scale clustering
Ariel G. Sanchez, M. Crocce, A. Cabre +2
We apply a new model for the spherically averaged correlation function at large pair separations to the measurement of the clustering of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) made from the…
Constraining the Baryonic Feedback with Cosmic Shear Using the DES Year-3 Small-Scale Measurements
A. Chen, G. Aricò, D. Huterer +139
We use the small scales of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-3 cosmic shear measurements, which are excluded from the DES Year-3 cosmological analysis, to constrain the baryonic fe…
The Dark Energy Survey: Cosmology Results With ~1500 New High-redshift Type Ia Supernovae Using The Full 5-year Dataset
DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Acevedo +156
We present cosmological constraints from the sample of Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) discovered during the full five years of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Supernova Program. In contra…
The MICE Grand Challenge Lightcone Simulation II: Halo and Galaxy catalogues
M. Crocce, F. J. Castander, E. Gaztanaga +2
This is the second in a series of three papers in which we present an end-to-end simulation from the MICE collaboration, the MICE Grand Challenge (MICE-GC) run. The N-body contains…
Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Redshift Calibration of the Weak Lensing Source Galaxies
B. Yin, A. Amon, A. Campos +95
Determining the distribution of redshifts for galaxies in wide-field photometric surveys is essential for robust cosmological studies of weak gravitational lensing. We present the…
Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Exploiting small-scale information with lensing shear ratios
C. Sánchez, J. Prat, G. Zacharegkas +138
Using the first three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey, we use ratios of small-scale galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements around the same lens sample to constrain source red…
Consistent lensing and clustering in a low- Universe with BOSS, DES Year 3, HSC Year 1 and KiDS-1000
A. Amon, N. C. Robertson, H. Miyatake +105
We evaluate the consistency between lensing and clustering probes of large-scale structure based on measurements of projected galaxy clustering from BOSS combined with overlapping…
Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: imprints of cosmic voids and superclusters in the Planck CMB lensing map
A. Kovács, P. Vielzeuf, I. Ferrero +82
The CMB lensing signal from cosmic voids and superclusters probes the growth of structure in the low-redshift cosmic web. In this analysis, we cross-correlated the Planck CMB lensi…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cross-correlation between DES Y1 galaxy weak lensing and SPT+Planck CMB weak lensing
Y. Omori, E. Baxter, C. Chang +137
We cross-correlate galaxy weak lensing measurements from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) year-one (Y1) data with a cosmic microwave background (CMB) weak lensing map derived from Sout…
Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914
B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1538
A gravitational-wave (GW) transient was identified in data recorded by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors on 2015 September 14. The e…
Joint Analysis of Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing and Galaxy Clustering: Methodology and Forecasts for DES
Y. Park, E. Krause, S. Dodelson +68
The joint analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering is a promising method for inferring the growth function of large scale structure. This analysis will be carried ou…
Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Cluster Abundances, Weak Lensing, and Galaxy Clustering
DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena +88
Galaxy clusters provide a unique probe of the late-time cosmic structure and serve as a powerful independent test of the CDM model. This work presents the first set of cosmolog…
Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Weak Lensing and Galaxy Clustering Cosmological Analysis Framework
D. Sanchez-Cid, A. Ferté, J. Blazek +115
We present the methodology for the weak lensing and galaxy clustering analyses of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 6 data set. In this work, we design and validate the analysis pi…
A Measurement of CMB Cluster Lensing with SPT and DES Year 1 Data
E. J. Baxter, S. Raghunathan, T. M. Crawford +118
Clusters of galaxies gravitationally lens the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, resulting in a distinct imprint in the CMB on arcminute scales. Measurement of this effec…
Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Clustering-redshifts and importance sampling of Self-Organised-Maps realizations for pt samples
W. d'Assignies, G. M. Bernstein, B. Yin +92
This work is part of a series establishing the redshift framework for the pt analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Year 6 (DES Y6). For DES Y6, photometric redshift distribu…
Dark Energy Survey: Galaxy Sample for the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation Measurement from the Final Dataset
J. Mena-Fernández, M. RodrÃguez-Monroy, S. Avila +85
In this paper we present and validate the galaxy sample used for the analysis of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y6 data. The definitio…
Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation in Recently Discovered Milky Way Satellites with Fermi-LAT
The Fermi-LAT, DES Collaborations, A. Albert +70
We search for excess gamma-ray emission coincident with the positions of confirmed and candidate Milky Way satellite galaxies using 6 years of data from the Fermi Large Area Telesc…
Joint Measurement of Lensing-Galaxy Correlations Using SPT and DES SV Data
E. J. Baxter, J. Clampitt, T. Giannantonio +75
We measure the correlation of galaxy lensing and cosmic microwave background lensing with a set of galaxies expected to trace the matter density field. The measurements are perform…
DES14X3taz: A Type I Superluminous Supernova Showing a Luminous, Rapidly Cooling Initial Pre-Peak Bump
M. Smith, M. Sullivan, C. B. D'Andrea +81
We present DES14X3taz, a new hydrogen-poor super luminous supernova (SLSN-I) discovered by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) supernova program, with additional photometric data provided…
First Cosmology Results using Type Ia Supernova from the Dark Energy Survey: Simulations to Correct Supernova Distance Biases
R. Kessler, D. Brout, C. B. D'Andrea +103
We describe catalog-level simulations of Type Ia supernova (SN~Ia) light curves in the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN), and in low-redshift samples from the Center fo…
A Dark Energy Camera Search for Missing Supergiants in the LMC After the Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW150914
J. Annis, M. Soares-Santos, E. Berger +104
The collapse of the core of a star is expected to produce gravitational radiation. While this process will usually produce a luminous supernova, the optical signatue could be sublu…
Dark Energy Survey: A 2.1% measurement of the angular Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation scale at redshift =0.85 from the final dataset
DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Adamow +105
We present the angular diameter distance measurement obtained with the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation feature from galaxy clustering in the completed Dark Energy Survey, consisting…
Comparing Dark Energy Survey and HST-CLASH observations of the galaxy cluster RXC J2248.7-4431: implications for stellar mass versus dark matter
A. Palmese, O. Lahav, M. Banerji +65
We derive the stellar mass fraction in the galaxy cluster RXC J2248.7-4431 observed with the Dark Energy Survey (DES) during the Science Verification period. We compare the stellar…
Euclid preparation. 3-dimensional galaxy clustering in configuration space. Part I. 2-point correlation function estimation
Euclid Collaboration, S. de la Torre, F. Marulli +297
The 2-point correlation function of the galaxy spatial distribution is a major cosmological observable that enables constraints on the dynamics and geometry of the Universe. The Eu…
An accurate tool for the fast generation of dark matter halo catalogs
P. Monaco, E. Sefusatti, S. Borgani +4
We present a new parallel implementation of the PINpointing Orbit Crossing-Collapsed HIerarchical Objects (PINOCCHIO) algorithm, a quick tool, based on Lagrangian Perturbation Theo…
Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Simulation-based CDM inference from weak lensing and galaxy clustering maps with deep learning: Analysis design
A. Thomsen, J. Bucko, T. Kacprzak +99
Data-driven approaches using deep learning are emerging as powerful techniques to extract non-Gaussian information from cosmological large-scale structure. This work presents the f…
Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: MagLim++ Lens Sample Selection and Measurements of Galaxy Clustering
N. Weaverdyck, M. RodrÃguez-Monroy, J. Elvin-Poole +85
Galaxy clustering is a sensitive probe of the expansion history and growth of structure of the universe, and key degeneracies can be broken by combining these data with measurement…
BAO from angular clustering: optimization and mitigation of theoretical systematics
K. C. Chan, M. Crocce, A. J. Ross +58
We study the methodology and potential theoretical systematics of measuring Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) using the angular correlation functions in tomographic bins. We calib…
Models of the strongly lensed quasar DES J0408-5354
Adriano Agnello, Huan Lin, L. Buckley-Geer +82
We present gravitational lens models of the multiply imaged quasar DES J0408-5354, recently discovered in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) footprint, with the aim of interpreting its r…
Wide-Field Lensing Mass Maps from DES Science Verification Data: Methodology and Detailed Analysis
V. Vikram, C. Chang, B. Jain +91
Weak gravitational lensing allows one to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the projected mass density across the sky. These "mass maps" provide a powerful tool for studying c…
Constraints on cosmology and baryonic feedback with joint analysis of Dark Energy Survey Year 3 lensing data and ACT DR6 thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect observations
S. Pandey, J. C. Hill, A. Alarcon +137
We present a joint analysis of weak gravitational lensing (shear) data obtained from the first three years of observations by the Dark Energy Survey and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Multi-Probe Methodology and Simulated Likelihood Analyses
E. Krause, T. F. Eifler, J. Zuntz +83
We present the methodology for and detail the implementation of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) 3x2pt DES Year 1 (Y1) analysis, which combines configuration-space two-point statistics…
Tracing The Sound Horizon Scale With Photometric Redshift Surveys
E. Sanchez, A. Carnero, J. Garcia-Bellido +6
We propose a new method for cosmological parameters extraction using the baryon acoustic oscillation scale as a standard ruler in deep galaxy surveys with photometric determination…
Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Constraints on cosmological parameters and galaxy bias models from galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing using the redMaGiC sample
S. Pandey, E. Krause, J. DeRose +138
We constrain cosmological and galaxy-bias parameters using the combination of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from the Dark Energy Survey Year-3 data. We d…
Perturbation theory for modeling galaxy bias: validation with simulations of the Dark Energy Survey
S. Pandey, E. Krause, B. Jain +52
We describe perturbation theory (PT) models of galaxy bias for applications to photometric galaxy surveys. We model the galaxy-galaxy and galaxy-matter correlation functions in con…
First Cosmological Results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Measurement of the Hubble Constant
E. Macaulay, R. C. Nichol, D. Bacon +106
We present an improved measurement of the Hubble constant (H_0) using the 'inverse distance ladder' method, which adds the information from 207 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the…
Euclid preparation. Galaxy power spectrum modelling in redshift space
Euclid Collaboration, B. Camacho Quevedo, M. Crocce +292
Accurate modelling of redshift-space distortions (RSD) is essential for maximizing the cosmological information extracted from large galaxy redshift surveys. In preparation for the…
Cosmological constraints from the tomography of DES-Y3 galaxies with CMB lensing from ACT DR4
G. A. Marques, M. S. Madhavacheril, O. Darwish +92
We present a measurement of the cross-correlation between the MagLim galaxies selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) first three years of observations (Y3) and cosmic microwave…
Euclid preparation: XLVIII. The pre-launch Science Ground Segment simulation framework
Euclid Collaboration, S. Serrano, P. Hudelot +274
The European Space Agency's Euclid mission is one of the upcoming generation of large-scale cosmology surveys, which will map the large-scale structure in the Universe with unprece…
Environmental dependence of the galaxy stellar mass function in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data
J. Etherington, D. Thomas, C. Maraston +61
Measurements of the galaxy stellar mass function are crucial to understand the formation of galaxies in the Universe. In a hierarchical clustering paradigm it is plausible that the…
Euclid preparation. Cosmology Likelihood for Observables in Euclid (CLOE). 4: Validation and Performance
Euclid Collaboration, M. Martinelli, A. Pezzotta +334
The Euclid satellite will provide data on the clustering of galaxies and on the distortion of their measured shapes, which can be used to constrain and test the cosmological model.…
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…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Galaxy Sample for BAO Measurement
M. Crocce, A. J. Ross, I. Sevilla-Noarbe +84
We define and characterise a sample of 1.3 million galaxies extracted from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data, optimised to measure Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the prese…
Studying the Ultraviolet Spectrum of the First Spectroscopically Confirmed Supernova at redshift two
M. Smith, M. Sullivan, R. C. Nichol +87
We present observations of DES16C2nm, the first spectroscopically confirmed hydrogen-free superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) at redshift z~2. DES16C2nm was discovered by the Dark Ene…
Stellar Streams Discovered in the Dark Energy Survey
N. Shipp, A. Drlica-Wagner, E. Balbinot +80
We perform a search for stellar streams around the Milky Way using the first three years of multi-band optical imaging data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We use DES data cover…
The DES Science Verification Weak Lensing Shear Catalogues
M. Jarvis, E. Sheldon, J. Zuntz +92
We present weak lensing shear catalogues for 139 square degrees of data taken during the Science Verification (SV) time for the new Dark Energy Camera (DECam) being used for the Da…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: The relationship between mass and light around cosmic voids
Y. Fang, N. Hamaus, B. Jain +74
What are the mass and galaxy profiles of cosmic voids? In this paper we use two methods to extract voids in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 redMaGiC galaxy sample to address th…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: The effect of intracluster light on photometric redshifts for weak gravitational lensing
D. Gruen, Y. Zhang, A. Palmese +64
We study the effect of diffuse intracluster light on the critical surface mass density estimated from photometric redshifts of lensing source galaxies, and the resulting bias in a…
Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Cell-based Coadds and Metadetection Weak Lensing Shape Catalogue
M. Yamamoto, M. R. Becker, E. Sheldon +81
We present the Metadetection weak lensing galaxy shape catalogue from the six-year Dark Energy Survey (DES Y6) imaging data. This dataset is the final release from DES, spanning 44…
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…
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…
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…
DES Y1 Results: Validating cosmological parameter estimation using simulated Dark Energy Surveys
N. MacCrann, J. DeRose, R. H. Wechsler +76
We use mock galaxy survey simulations designed to resemble the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) data to validate and inform cosmological parameter estimation. When similar analys…
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…
Wide-Field Lensing Mass Maps from DES Science Verification Data
C. Chang, V. Vikram, B. Jain +81
We present a mass map reconstructed from weak gravitational lensing shear measurements over 139 sq. deg from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Science Verification data. The mass map pr…
Detection of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with DES Year 1 and SPT
B. Soergel, S. Flender, K. T. Story +80
We detect the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect with a statistical significance of by combining a cluster catalogue derived from the first year data of the Dark En…
Euclid preparation. Galaxy 2-point correlation function modelling in redshift space
Euclid Collaboration, M. Kärcher, M. -A. Breton +309
The Euclid satellite will measure spectroscopic redshifts for tens of millions of emission-line galaxies. In the context of Stage-IV surveys, the 3-dimensional clustering of galaxi…
Weak lensing magnification in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data
M. Garcia-Fernandez, E. Sánchez, I. Sevilla-Noarbe +68
In this paper the effect of weak lensing magnification on galaxy number counts is studied by cross-correlating the positions of two galaxy samples, separated by redshift, using dat…
Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Magnification modeling and its impact on galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing cosmology
E. Legnani, J. Elvin-Poole, D. Anbajagane +72
Gravitational lensing magnification alters the observed spatial distribution of galaxies and must be accounted for to prevent biases in cosmological probes of the large-scale struc…
The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Dark Energy Camera Discovery of the Optical Counterpart
M. Soares-Santos, D. E. Holz, J. Annis +142
We present the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) discovery of the optical counterpart of the first binary neutron star merger detected through gravitational wave emission, GW170817. Our o…
The Difference Imaging Pipeline for the Transient Search in the Dark Energy Survey
R. Kessler, J. Marriner, M. Childress +60
We describe the difference imaging pipeline (DiffImg) used to detect transients in deep images from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova program (DES-SN) in its first observing season…
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…
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…
Euclid preparation. XVIII. The NISP photometric system
Euclid Collaboration, M. Schirmer, K. Jahnke +220
Euclid will be the first space mission to survey most of the extragalactic sky in the 0.95-2.02 m range, to a 5 point-source median depth of 24.4 AB mag. This unique photom…
\textit{Euclid} preparation. Baryon acoustic oscillations extraction techniques: comparison and optimisation
Euclid Collaboration, E. Sarpa, A. Veropalumbo +296
We present the first end-to-end validation of the Euclid baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) analysis pipeline, encompassing density-field reconstruction, two-point correlation funct…
The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 1
T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla, S. Allam +199
We describe the first public data release of the Dark Energy Survey, DES DR1, consisting of reduced single epoch images, coadded images, coadded source catalogs, and associated pro…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cross-Correlation Redshifts in the DES -- Calibration of the Weak Lensing Source Redshift Distributions
C. Davis, M. Gatti, P. Vielzeuf +81
We present the calibration of the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) weak lensing source galaxy redshift distributions from clustering measurements. By cross-correlating the positi…
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…
The PAU Survey: Narrow-band image photometry
S. Serrano, E. Gaztañaga, F. J. Castander +22
PAUCam is an innovative optical narrow-band imager mounted at the William Herschel Telescope built for the Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS). Its set of 40 filters…
Crowdsourcing quality control for Dark Energy Survey images
P. Melchior, E. Sheldon, A. Drlica-Wagner +47
We have developed a crowdsourcing web application for image quality control employed by the Dark Energy Survey. Dubbed the "DES exposure checker", it renders science-grade images d…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing
DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla +197
We present cosmological results from a combined analysis of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing, using 1321 deg of imaging data from the first year of the D…
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…
Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Galaxy clustering and systematics treatment for lens galaxy samples
M. RodrÃguez-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,…
Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Point-spread Function Modeling
T. Schutt, M. Jarvis, A. Roodman +70
We present the point-spread function (PSF) modeling for weak lensing shear measurement using the full six years of the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y6) data. We review the PSF estimatio…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Galaxy clustering for combined probes
J. Elvin-Poole, M. Crocce, A. J. Ross +123
We measure the clustering of DES Year 1 galaxies that are intended to be combined with weak lensing samples in order to produce precise cosmological constraints from the joint anal…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: tomographic cross-correlations between DES galaxies and CMB lensing from SPT+Planck
Y. Omori, T. Giannantonio, A. Porredon +137
We measure the cross-correlation between redMaGiC galaxies selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-1 data and gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…
Improving Weak Lensing Mass Map Reconstructions using Gaussian and Sparsity Priors: Application to DES SV
N. Jeffrey, F. B. Abdalla, O. Lahav +65
Mapping the underlying density field, including non-visible dark matter, using weak gravitational lensing measurements is now a standard tool in cosmology. Due to its importance to…
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…
First measurement of the Hubble constant from a dark standard siren using the Dark Energy Survey galaxies and the LIGO/Virgo binary-black-hole merger GW170814
The DES Collaboration, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration +1201
We present a multi-messenger measurement of the Hubble constant H_0 using the binary-black-hole merger GW170814 as a standard siren, combined with a photometric redshift catalog fr…
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…
Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Synthetic-source Injection Across the Full Survey Using Balrog
D. Anbajagane, M. Tabbutt, J. Beas-Gonzalez +79
Synthetic source injection (SSI), the insertion of sources into pixel-level on-sky images, is a powerful method for characterizing object detection and measurement in wide-field, a…
Extending evolution mapping to massive neutrinos with COMET
A. Pezzotta, A. Eggemeier, G. Gambardella +7
We introduce an extension of the evolution mapping framework to cosmological models that include massive neutrinos. The original evolution mapping framework exploits a degeneracy i…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Curved-Sky Weak Lensing Mass Map
C. Chang, A. Pujol, B. Mawdsley +117
We construct the largest curved-sky galaxy weak lensing mass map to date from the DES first-year (DES Y1) data. The map, about 10 times larger than previous work, is constructed ov…
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…
Cosmology constraints from shear peak statistics in Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data
T. Kacprzak, D. Kirk, O. Friedrich +81
Shear peak statistics has gained a lot of attention recently as a practical alternative to the two point statistics for constraining cosmological parameters. We perform a shear pea…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scale in the distribution of galaxies to redshift 1
The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla +109
We present angular diameter distance measurements obtained by locating the BAO scale in the distribution of galaxies selected from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data. We con…
Supplement: Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914
B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1538
This Supplement provides supporting material for arXiv:1602.08492 . We briefly summarize past electromagnetic (EM) follow-up efforts as well as the organization and policy of the c…
Galaxy bias from galaxy-galaxy lensing in the DES Science Verification Data
J. Prat, C. Sánchez, R. Miquel +68
We present a measurement of galaxy-galaxy lensing around a magnitude-limited () sample of galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification (DES-SV) data. We…
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…
Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations with Three-dimensional Clustering
K. C. Chan, S. Avila, A. Carnero Rosell +66
The three-dimensional correlation function offers an effective way to summarize the correlation of the large-scale structure even for imaging galaxy surveys. We have applied the pr…
The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-IR Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models
P. S. Cowperthwaite, E. Berger, V. A. Villar +141
We present UV, optical, and NIR photometry of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave source from Advanced LIGO/Virgo, the binary neutron star merger GW170817…
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…
Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Three-Point Shear Correlations and Mass Aperture Moments
L. F. Secco, M. Jarvis, B. Jain +87
We present high signal-to-noise measurements of three-point shear correlations and the third moment of the mass aperture statistic using the first 3 years of data from the Dark Ene…