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most citedObservational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant

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astro-ph.IM2018★ 37 cited

Sub-percent Photometry: Faint DA White Dwarf Spectophotometric Standards for Astrophysical Observatories

Gautham Narayan, Thomas Matheson, Abhijit Saha +18

We have established a network of 19 faint (16.5 mag 19 mag) northern and equatorial DA white dwarfs as spectrophotometric standards for present and future wide-field observ…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 93 cited

First Cosmology Results Using Type Ia Supernovae From the Dark Energy Survey: Photometric Pipeline and Light Curve Data Release

D. Brout, M. Sako, D. Scolnic +89

We present griz light curves of 251 Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first 3 years of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program's (DES-SN) spectroscopically classified sample. T…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 3 cited

SAMplus: adaptive optics at optical wavelengths for SOAR

D. M. Faes, A. Tokovinin, T. Vieira +5

Adaptive Optics (AO) is an innovative technique that substantially improves the optical performance of ground-based telescopes. The SOAR Adaptive Module (SAM) is a laser-assisted A…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 15 cited

A collimated beam projector for precise telescope calibration

Michael Coughlin, T. M. C. Abbott, Kairn Brannon +7

The precise determination of the instrumental response function versus wavelength is a central ingredient in contemporary photometric calibration strategies. This typically entails…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 38 cited

Star-galaxy classification in the Dark Energy Survey Y1 dataset

I. Sevilla-Noarbe, B. Hoyle, M. J. Marchã +75

We perform a comparison of different approaches to star-galaxy classification using the broad-band photometric data from Year 1 of the Dark Energy Survey. This is done by performin…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1.9k cited

Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

Arjun Dey, David J. Schlegel, Dustin Lang +157

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys are a combination of three public projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey, and the Mayall z-band Legacy Surve…