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20172026
most citedThe Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2

319 citations · 795 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Adamow +169

We present cosmology results combining galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing measured in the full six years (Y6) of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) covering…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 2 cited

Dark Energy Survey: DESI-Independent Angular BAO Measurement

J. Mena-Fernández, S. Avila, A. Porredon +80

We present a measurement of the angular baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale from the completed Dark Energy Survey (DES) dataset excluding the area of overlap with the Dark Ener…

astro-ph.CO2025

DECADE+DES Y3 Weak Lensing Mass Map: A 13,000 deg View of Cosmic Structure from 270 Million Galaxies

M. Gatti, D. Anbajagane, C. Chang +37

We present the largest galaxy weak lensing mass map of the late-time Universe, reconstructed from 270 million galaxies in the DECADE and DES Year 3 datasets, covering 13,000 square…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

DELVE Milky Way Satellite Galaxy Census I: Satellite Population and Survey Selection Function in DES, DELVE, and Pan-STARRS

C. Y. Tan, A. Drlica-Wagner, A. B. Pace +84

The properties of Milky Way satellite galaxies have important implications for galaxy formation, reionization, and the fundamental physics of dark matter. However, the population o…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Dark Energy Camera All Data Everywhere cosmic shear project V: Constraints on cosmology and astrophysics from 270 million galaxies across 13,000 deg of the sky

D. Anbajagane, C. Chang, A. Drlica-Wagner +78

We present constraints on models of cosmology and astrophysics using cosmic shear data vectors from three datasets: the northern and southern Galactic cap of the Dark Energy Camera…

astro-ph.GA2025

The NGC3109 Satellite System: The First Systematic Resolved Search for Dwarf Galaxies Around a SMC-mass Host

Amandine Doliva-Dolinsky, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Denija Crnojević +38

We report the results of the deepest search to date for dwarf galaxies around NGC3109, a barred spiral galaxy with a mass similar to that of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), using…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 6 cited

Dark Energy Survey: implications for cosmological expansion models from the final DES Baryon Acoustic Oscillation and Supernova data

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Acevedo +118

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) recently released the final results of its two principal probes of the expansion history: Type Ia Supernovae (SNe) and Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (…

astro-ph.CO2025

The DECADE cosmic shear project IV: cosmological constraints from 107 million galaxies across 5,400 deg of the sky

D. Anbajagane, C. Chang, A. Drlica-Wagner +72

We present cosmological constraints from the Dark Energy Camera All Data Everywhere (DECADE) cosmic shear analysis. This work uses shape measurements for 107 million galaxies measu…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

The DECADE cosmic shear project III: validation of analysis pipeline using spatially inhomogeneous data

D. Anbajagane, C. Chang, N. Chicoine +50

We present the pipeline for the cosmic shear analysis of the Dark Energy Camera All Data Everywhere (DECADE) weak lensing dataset: a catalog consisting of 107 million galaxies obse…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

The DECADE cosmic shear project II: photometric redshift calibration of the source galaxy sample

D. Anbajagane, A. Alarcon, R. Teixeira +50

We present the photometric redshift characterization and calibration for the Dark Energy Camera All Data Everywhere (DECADE) weak lensing dataset: a catalog of 107 million galaxies…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 6 cited

The DECADE cosmic shear project I: A new weak lensing shape catalog of 107 million galaxies

D. Anbajagane, C. Chang, Z. Zhang +51

We present the Dark Energy Camera All Data Everywhere (DECADE) weak lensing dataset: a catalog of 107 million galaxies observed by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) in the northern Ga…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 19 cited

A Pride of Satellites in the Constellation Leo? Discovery of the Leo VI Milky Way Satellite Galaxy with DELVE Early Data Release 3

C. Y. Tan, W. Cerny, A. Drlica-Wagner +32

We report the discovery and spectroscopic confirmation of an ultra-faint Milky Way (MW) satellite in the constellation of Leo. This system was discovered as a spatial overdensity o…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

The Gravitational Lensing Imprints of DES Y3 Superstructures on the CMB: A Matched Filtering Approach

Umut Demirbozan, Seshadri Nadathur, Ismael Ferrero +63

Low density cosmic voids gravitationally lens the cosmic microwave background (CMB), leaving a negative imprint on the CMB convergence . This effect provides insight into the…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 43 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

High-quality Extragalactic Legacy-field Monitoring (HELM) with DECam

Ming-Yang Zhuang, Qian Yang, Yue Shen +45

High-quality Extragalactic Legacy-field Monitoring (HELM) is a long-term observing program that photometrically monitors several well-studied extragalactic legacy fields with the D…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 12 cited

Dark Energy Survey: Galaxy Sample for the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation Measurement from the Final Dataset

J. Mena-Fernández, M. Rodríguez-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…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 20 cited

The Active Chromospheres of Lithium-Rich Red Giant Stars

Christopher Sneden, Melike Afsar, Zeynep Bozkurt +17

We have gathered near-infrared -band high resolution spectra of nearly 300 field red giant stars with known lithium abundances in order to survey their \species{He}{i} 1083…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 75 cited

Optical Variability of Quasars with 20-Year Photometric Light Curves

Zachary Stone, Yue Shen, Colin J. Burke +52

We study the optical photometric variability of a sample of 190 quasars within the SDSS Stripe 82 region that have long-term photometric coverage during with…

astro-ph.GA2021

RR Lyrae stars in the newly discovered ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Centaurus I

C. E. Martínez-Vázquez, W. Cerny, A. K. Vivas +22

We report the detection of three RR Lyrae (RRL) stars (two RRc and one RRab) in the ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxy Centaurus I (CenI) and two Milky Way (MW) Scuti/SX Phoenicis…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 20 cited

DELVE-ing into the Jet: a thin stellar stream on a retrograde orbit at 30 kpc

Peter Ferguson, Nora Shipp, Alex Drlica-Wagner +20

We perform a detailed photometric and astrometric analysis of stars in the Jet stream using data from the first data release of the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey (DELVE) DR…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 119 cited

The DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey: Overview and First Data Release

A. Drlica-Wagner, J. L. Carlin, D. L. Nidever +67

The DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE) is a 126-night survey program on the 4-m Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. DELVE seeks to…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 319 cited

The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Adamow +132

We present the second public data release of the Dark Energy Survey, DES DR2, based on optical/near-infrared imaging by the Dark Energy Camera mounted on the 4-m Blanco telescope a…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 95 cited

Two Ultra-Faint Milky Way Stellar Systems Discovered in Early Data from the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey

S. Mau, W. Cerny, A. B. Pace +56

We report the discovery of two ultra-faint stellar systems found in early data from the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE). The first system, Centaurus I (DELVE J1238-40…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 49 cited

The RRC Stars: Chemical Abundances and Envelope Kinematics

Christopher Sneden, George W. Preston, Merieme Chadid +1

We analyzed series of spectra obtained for twelve stable RRc stars observed with the echelle spectro- graph of the du Pont telescope at Las Campanas Observatory and we analyzed the…