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astro-ph.GA2015★ 29 cited

Physical properties of star clusters in the outer LMC as observed by the Dark Energy Survey

A. Pieres, B. Santiago, E. Balbinot +57

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) harbors a rich and diverse system of star clusters, whose ages, chemical abundances, and positions provide information about the LMC history of sta…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 117 cited

Very-high-energy gamma-rays from the Universe's middle age: detection of the z=0.940 blazar PKS 1441+25 with MAGIC

MAGIC Collaboration, M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi +246

The flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 1441+25 at a redshift of z = 0.940 is detected between 40 and 250 GeV with a significance of 25.5 σ using the MAGIC telescopes. Together with the…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 40 cited

On the dependence of the type Ia SNe luminosities on the metallicity of their host galaxies

Manuel E. Moreno-Raya, Mercedes Mollá, Ángel R. López-Sánchez +4

The metallicity of the progenitor system producing a type Ia supernova (SN Ia) could play a role in its maximum luminosity, as suggested by theoretical predictions. We present an o…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 118 cited

The warm ionized gas in CALIFA early-type galaxies: 2D emission-line patterns and kinematics for 32 galaxies

J. M. Gomes, P. Papaderos, C. Kehrig +23

The morphological, spectroscopic and kinematical properties of the warm interstellar medium (wim) in early-type galaxies (ETGs) hold key observational constraints to nuclear activi…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 32 cited

Spectroscopic aperture biases in inside-out evolving early-type galaxies from CALIFA

J. M. Gomes, P. Papaderos, J. M. Vílchez +21

Integral field spectroscopy studies based on CALIFA data have recently revealed the presence of ongoing low-level star formation (SF) in the periphery of ~10% of local early-type g…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 46 cited

Spiral-like star-forming patterns in CALIFA early-type galaxies

J. M. Gomes, P. Papaderos, J. M. Vílchez +21

Based on a combined analysis of SDSS imaging and CALIFA integral field spectroscopy data, we report on the detection of faint (24 < μ mag/arcsec < 26) star-forming spiral-a…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 53 cited

Outer-disk reddening and gas-phase metallicities: The CALIFA connection

R. A. Marino, A. Gil de Paz, S. F. Sánchez +27

We study, for the first time in a statistically significant and well-defined sample, the relation between the outer-disk ionized-gas metallicity gradients and the presence of break…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 42 cited

Discovery of a Stellar Overdensity in Eridanus-Phoenix in the Dark Energy Survey

T. S. Li, E. Balbinot, N. Mondrik +56

We report the discovery of an excess of main sequence turn-off stars in the direction of the constellations of Eridanus and Phoenix from the first year data of the Dark Energy Surv…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 54 cited

The Phoenix stream: a cold stream in the Southern hemisphere

E. Balbinot, B. Yanny, T. S. Li +49

We report the discovery of a stellar stream in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 (Y1A1) data. The discovery was made through simple color-magnitude filters and visual inspection…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 60 cited

Digging deeper into the Southern skies: a compact Milky-Way companion discovered in first-year Dark Energy Survey data

E. Luque, A. Queiroz, B. Santiago +61

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a 5000 sq. degree survey in the southern hemisphere, which is rapidly reducing the existing north-south asymmetry in the census of MW satellites and…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 47 cited

Discovery of two gravitationally lensed quasars in the Dark Energy Survey

Adriano Agnello, Tommaso Treu, Fernanda Ostrovski +77

We present spectroscopic confirmation of two new lensed quasars via data obtained at the 6.5m Magellan/Baade Telescope. The lens candidates have been selected from the Dark Energy…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 534 cited

Eight Ultra-faint Galaxy Candidates Discovered in Year Two of the Dark Energy Survey

The DES Collaboration, A. Drlica-Wagner, K. Bechtol +74

We report the discovery of eight new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidates in the second year of optical imaging data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Six of these candidates are d…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 97 cited

No galaxy left behind: accurate measurements with the faintest objects in the Dark Energy Survey

E. Suchyta, E. M. Huff, J. Aleksić +72

Accurate statistical measurement with large imaging surveys has traditionally required throwing away a sizable fraction of the data. This is because most measurements have have rel…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 311 cited

The CALIFA survey across the Hubble sequence: Spatially resolved stellar population properties in galaxies

R. M. González Delgado, R. García-Benito, E. Pérez +32

This paper characterizes the radial structure of stellar population properties of galaxies in the nearby universe, based on 300 galaxies from the CALIFA survey. The sample covers a…

astro-ph.GA2015

Galactic Chemical Evolution: Stellar Yields and the Initial Mass Function

Mercedes Mollá, Oscar Cavichia, Marta Gavilán +1

We present a set of 144 galactic chemical evolution models applied to a Milky Way analogue, computed using four sets of low and intermediate star nucleosynthetic yields, six massiv…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 33 cited

MAGIC detection of short-term variability of the high-peaked BL Lac object 1ES 0806+524

MAGIC Collaboration, J. Aleksić, S. Ansoldi +152

The high-frequency-peaked BL Lac (HBL) 1ES 0806+524 (z = 0.138) was discovered in VHE rays in 2008. Until now, the broad-band spectrum of 1ES 0806+524 has been only poorly char…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 107 cited

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.GA2015★ 76 cited

DES J0454-4448: Discovery of the First Luminous z > 6 Quasar from the Dark Energy Survey

S. L. Reed, R. G. McMahon, M. Banerji +59

We present the first results of a survey for high redshift, z 6, quasars using izY multi-colour photometric observations from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Here we report the…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 54 cited

Galaxies in X-ray Selected Clusters and Groups in Dark Energy Survey Data I: Stellar Mass Growth of Bright Central Galaxies Since z~1.2

Y. Zhang, C. Miller, T. Mckay +80

Using the science verification data of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) for a new sample of 106 X-Ray selected clusters and groups, we study the stellar mass growth of Bright Central G…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 162 cited

Stellar Kinematics and Metallicities in the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II

J. D. Simon, A. Drlica-Wagner, T. S. Li +69

We present Magellan/M2FS, VLT/GIRAFFE, and Gemini South/GMOS spectroscopy of the newly discovered Milky Way satellite Reticulum II. Based on the spectra of 25 Ret II member stars s…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 576 cited

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.GA2015★ 51 cited

The LMC geometry and outer stellar populations from early DES data

Eduardo Balbinot, B. X. Santiago, L. Girardi +50

The Dark Energy Camera has captured a large set of images as part of Science Verification (SV) for the Dark Energy Survey. The SV footprint covers a lar ge portion of the outer Lar…