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astro-ph.GA2018★ 59 cited

Chemical Abundance Analysis of Tucana III, the Second -process Enhanced Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy

J. L. Marshall, T. Hansen, J. D. Simon +56

We present a chemical abundance analysis of four additional confirmed member stars of Tucana III, a Milky Way satellite galaxy candidate in the process of being tidally disrupted a…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 19 cited

Candidate Massive Galaxies at in the Dark Energy Survey

Pierandrea Guarnieri, Claudia Maraston, Daniel Thomas +52

Using stellar population models, we predicted that the Dark Energy Survey (DES) - due to its special combination of area (5000 deg. sq.) and depth () - would be in the po…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 44 cited

Metals and dust content across the galaxies M101 and NGC 628

J. M. Vilchez, M. Relano, R. Kennicutt +3

We present a spatially resolved study of the relation between dust and metallicity in the nearby spiral galaxies M101 (NGC 5457) and NGC 628 (M74). We explore the relation between…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 105 cited

Finding high-redshift strong lenses in DES using convolutional neural networks

C. Jacobs, T. Collett, K. Glazebrook +63

We search Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 imaging data for galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses using convolutional neural networks. We generate 250,000 simulated lenses at re…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 64 cited

Quasar Accretion Disk Sizes from Continuum Reverberation Mapping in the DES Standard Star Fields

Zhefu Yu, Paul Martini, T. M. Davis +72

Measurements of the physical properties of accretion disks in active galactic nuclei are important for better understanding the growth and evolution of supermassive black holes. We…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 33 cited

The time evolution of the Milky Way's oxygen abundance gradient

M. Mollá, Á. I. Díaz, O. Cavichia +5

We study the evolution of oxygen abundance radial gradients as a function of time for the Milky Way Galaxy obtained with our {\sc Mulchem} chemical evolution model. We review the r…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 38 cited

The morphology and structure of stellar populations in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy from Dark Energy Survey Data

Mei-Yu Wang, T. de Boer, A. Pieres +55

Using deep wide-field photometry three-year data (Y3) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), we present a panoramic study of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy. The data presented here…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 69 cited

The PAU Survey: Early demonstration of photometric redshift performance in the COSMOS field

M. Eriksen, A. Alarcon, E. Gaztanaga +22

The PAU Survey (PAUS) is an innovative photometric survey with 40 narrow bands at the William Herschel Telescope (WHT). The narrow bands are spaced at 100Å intervals covering the r…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 25 cited

The PAU Survey: Spectral features and galaxy clustering using simulated narrow band photometry

L. Stothert, P. Norberg, C. M. Baugh +14

We present a mock catalogue for the Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS) and use it to quantify the competitiveness of the narrow band imaging for measuring spectral…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 33 cited

A catalogue of structural and morphological measurements for DES Y1

F. Tarsitano, W. G. Hartley, A. Amara +60

We present a structural and morphological catalogue for 45 million objects selected from the first year of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Single Sersic fits and non-parame…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 123 cited

Is every strong lens model unhappy in its own way? Uniform modelling of a sample of 13 quadruply+ imaged quasars

A. J. Shajib, S. Birrer, T. Treu +70

Strong-gravitational lens systems with quadruply-imaged quasars (quads) are unique probes to address several fundamental problems in cosmology and astrophysics. Although they are i…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 92 cited

Transfer learning for galaxy morphology from one survey to another

H. Domínguez Sánchez, M. Huertas-Company, M. Bernardi +56

Deep Learning (DL) algorithms for morphological classification of galaxies have proven very successful, mimicking (or even improving) visual classifications. However, these algorit…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 29 cited

The STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) 2016 follow-up campaign. II. New quasar lenses from double component fitting

T. Anguita, P. L. Schechter, N. Kuropatkin +56

We report upon the follow up of 34 candidate lensed quasars found in the Dark Energy Survey using NTT-EFOSC, Magellan-IMACS, KECK-ESI and SOAR-SAMI. These candidates were selected…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 17 cited

The PAU Survey: A Forward Modeling Approach for Narrow-band Imaging

Luca Tortorelli, Lorenza Della Bruna, Jörg Herbel +15

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of the dark sector, once measurement systematic errors can be controlled. In Refregier & Amara (2014), a calibration method based on…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 68 cited

Modelling the Tucana III stream - a close passage with the LMC

D. Erkal, T. S. Li, S. E. Koposov +67

We present results of the first dynamical stream fits to the recently discovered Tucana III stream. These fits assume a fixed Milky Way potential and give proper motion predictions…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 76 cited

The First Tidally Disrupted Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy? - Spectroscopic Analysis of the Tucana III Stream

T. S. Li, J. D. Simon, K. Kuehn +68

We present a spectroscopic study of the tidal tails and core of the Milky Way satellite Tucana III, collectively referred to as the Tucana III stream, using the 2dF+AAOmega spectro…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 121 cited

PISCO: The Pmas/ppak Integral-field Supernova hosts COmpilation

L. Galbany, J. P. Anderson, S. F. Sánchez +16

We present the Pmas/ppak Integral-field Supernova hosts COmpilation (PISCO) which comprises Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) of 232 supernova (SN) host galaxies, that hosted 272 S…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 9 cited

Elemental gas-phase abundances of intermediate redshift type Ia supernova star-forming host galaxies

M. E. Moreno-Raya, L. Galbany, A. R. López-Sánchez +4

The maximum luminosity of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) depends on the oxygen abundance of the regions of the host galaxies where they explode. This metallicity dependence reduces th…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 284 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 14 cited

UV-Luminous, Star-Forming Hosts of z~2 Reddened Quasars in the Dark Energy Survey

C. F. Wethers, M. Banerji, P. C. Hewett +55

We present the first rest-frame UV population study of 17 heavily reddened, high-luminosity (E(B-V) 0.5; L 10ergs) broad-line quasar…