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

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astro-ph.CO2020★ 32 cited

Sources of -tensions in dark energy scenarios

Balakrishna S. Haridasu, Matteo Viel, Nicola Vittorio

By focusing on the simple extension to CDM, we assess which epoch(s) possibly source the -tension. We consider Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data in three pos…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 82 cited

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.HE2020★ 58 cited

MAGIC observations of the nearby short gamma-ray burst GRB 160821B

MAGIC Collaboration, V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi +188

The coincident detection of GW170817 in gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation spanning the radio to MeV gamma-ray bands provided the first direct evidence that short ga…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 42 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 18 cited

The evolution of the low-density HI intergalactic medium from z=3.6 to 0: Data, transmitted flux and HI column density

Tae-Sun Kim, Bart P. Wakker, Fahad Nasir +8

We present a new, uniform analysis of the HI transmitted flux (F) and HI column density (N(HI)) distribution in the low-density IGM as a function of redshift z for 0<z<3.6 using 55…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 49 cited

Evolution of Galaxy Star Formation and Metallicity: Impact on Double Compact Objects Mergers

Lumen Boco, Andrea Lapi, Martyna Chruslinska +3

We study the impact of different galaxy statistics and empirical metallicity scaling relations on the merging rates and on the properties of compact objects binaries. First, we ana…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 55 cited

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.CO2020★ 70 cited

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.CO2020★ 4 cited

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.CO2020★ 35 cited

N-body simulations of dark matter with frequent self-interactions

Moritz S. Fischer, Marcus Brüggen, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg +4

Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models have the potential to solve the small-scale problems that arise in the cold dark matter paradigm. Simulations are a powerful tool for stu…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 21 cited

Impact of baryons in cosmic shear analyses with tomographic aperture mass statistics

Nicolas Martinet, Tiago Castro, Joachim Harnois-Déraps +3

NonGaussian cosmic shear statistics based on weak-lensing aperture mass () maps can outperform the classical shear two-point correlation function (-2PCF) in terms of…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 83 cited

Assessing tension metrics with Dark Energy Survey and Planck data

P. Lemos, M. Raveri, A. Campos +103

Quantifying tensions -- inconsistencies amongst measurements of cosmological parameters by different experiments -- has emerged as a crucial part of modern cosmological data analys…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 99 cited

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.CO2020★ 123 cited

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.CO2020★ 176 cited

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.GA2020★ 44 cited

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.GA2020★ 46 cited

A machine learning approach to galaxy properties: joint redshift-stellar mass probability distributions with Random Forest

S. Mucesh, W. G. Hartley, A. Palmese +72

We demonstrate that highly accurate joint redshift-stellar mass probability distribution functions (PDFs) can be obtained using the Random Forest (RF) machine learning (ML) algorit…

hep-ph2020★ 26 cited

Cosmic antihelium-3 nuclei sensitivity of the GAPS experiment

N. Saffold, T. Aramaki, R. Bird +52

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is an Antarctic balloon experiment designed for low-energy (0.10.3 GeV/) cosmic antinuclei as signatures of dark matter annihilat…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 81 cited

Cosmic Shear Cosmology Beyond 2-Point Statistics: A Combined Peak Count and Correlation Function Analysis of DES-Y1

Joachim Harnois-Déraps, Nicolas Martinet, Tiago Castro +5

We constrain cosmological parameters from a joint cosmic shear analysis of peak-counts and the two-point shear correlation functions, as measured from the Dark Energy Survey (DES-Y…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 46 cited

Fundamental physics with Espresso: Towards an accurate wavelength calibration for a precision test of the fine-structure constant

Tobias M. Schmidt, Paolo Molaro, Michael T. Murphy +56

Observations of metal absorption systems in the spectra of distant quasars allow to constrain a possible variation of the fine-structure constant throughout the history of the Univ…

hep-ph2020★ 123 cited

Bubble wall velocity: heavy physics effects

Aleksandr Azatov, Miguel Vanvlasselaer

We analyse the dynamics of the relativistic bubble expansion during the first order phase transition focusing on the ultra relativistic velocities . We show that fields muc…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 108 cited

ESPRESSO high resolution transmission spectroscopy of WASP-76b

H. M. Tabernero, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, R. Allart +87

Aims. We report on ESPRESSO high-resolution transmission spectroscopic observations of two primary transits of the highly-irradiated, ultra-hot Jupiter-size planet WASP-76b. We inv…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 78 cited

Primordial Non-Gaussianity from Biased Tracers: Likelihood Analysis of Real-Space Power Spectrum and Bispectrum

Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah, Matteo Biagetti, Emiliano Sefusatti +2

Upcoming galaxy redshift surveys promise to significantly improve current limits on primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) through measurements of 2- and 3-point correlation functions in…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 58 cited

The VANDELS survey: the relation between UV continuum slope and stellar metallicity in star-forming galaxies at z~3

A. Calabrò, M. Castellano, L. Pentericci +23

The estimate of stellar metallicities (Z*) of high-z galaxies are of paramount importance in order to understand the complexity of dust effects and the reciprocal interrelations am…