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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.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★ 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★ 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★ 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…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 47 cited

Strong detection of the CMB lensingxgalaxy weak lensingcross-correlation from ACT-DR4,PlanckLegacy and KiDS-1000

Naomi Clare Robertson, David Alonso, Joachim Harnois-Déraps +48

We measure the cross-correlation between galaxy weak lensing data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS-1000, DR4) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing data from the Atacama C…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 23 cited

Consistency of cosmic shear analyses in harmonic and real space

C. Doux, C. Chang, B. Jain +67

Recent cosmic shear studies have reported discrepancies of up to on the parameter between the analysis of shear power spectra and two-point…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 76 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Optimizing the Lens Sample in Combined Galaxy Clustering and Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing Analysis

A. Porredon, M. Crocce, P. Fosalba +77

We investigate potential gains in cosmological constraints from the combination of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing by optimizing the lens galaxy sample selection using…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 36 cited

Dark Energy Survey internal consistency tests of the joint cosmological probes analysis with posterior predictive distributions

C. Doux, E. Baxter, P. Lemos +85

Beyond-CDM physics or systematic errors may cause subsets of a cosmological data set to appear inconsistent when analyzed assuming CDM. We present an application of internal…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 82 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Point-Spread Function Modeling

M. Jarvis, G. M. Bernstein, A. Amon +79

We introduce a new software package for modeling the point-spread function (PSF) of astronomical images, called Piff (PSFs In the Full FOV), which we apply to the first three years…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 183 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Weak Lensing Shape Catalogue

M. Gatti, E. Sheldon, A. Amon +100

We present and characterise the galaxy shape catalogue from the first 3 years of Dark Energy Survey (DES) observations, over an effective area of ~4143 deg of the southern sky.…

astro-ph.IM2020

Recommended Target Fields for Commissioning the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

A. Amon, K. Bechtol, A. J. Connolly +13

The commissioning team for the Vera C. Rubin observatory is planning a set of engineering and science verification observations with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) comm…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 107 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Cluster Abundances, Weak Lensing, and Galaxy Correlations

C. To, E. Krause, E. Rozo +105

Combining multiple observational probes is a powerful technique to provide robust and precise constraints on cosmological parameters. In this letter, we present the first joint ana…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 302 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Catalog of > 4000 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Clusters

M. Hilton, C. Sifón, S. Naess +146

We present a catalog of 4195 optically confirmed Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) selected galaxy clusters detected with signal-to-noise > 4 in 13,211 deg of sky surveyed by the Atacama…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 47 cited

Probing galaxy evolution in massive clusters using ACT and DES: splashback as a cosmic clock

Susmita Adhikari, Tae-hyeon Shin, Bhuvnesh Jain +113

We measure the projected number density profiles of galaxies and the splashback feature in clusters selected by the Sunyaev--Zeldovich (SZ) effect from the Advanced Atacama Cosmolo…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 752 cited

KiDS-1000 Cosmology: Multi-probe weak gravitational lensing and spectroscopic galaxy clustering constraints

Catherine Heymans, Tilman Tröster, Marika Asgari +31

We present a joint cosmological analysis of weak gravitational lensing observations from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000), with redshift-space galaxy clustering observations from…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 41 cited

Testing gravity using galaxy-galaxy lensing and clustering amplitudes in KiDS-1000, BOSS and 2dFLenS

Chris Blake, Alexandra Amon, Marika Asgari +18

The physics of gravity on cosmological scales affects both the rate of assembly of large-scale structure, and the gravitational lensing of background light through this cosmic web.…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 12 cited

Noise from Undetected Sources in Dark Energy Survey Images

K. Eckert, G. M. Bernstein, A. Amara +66

For ground-based optical imaging with current CCD technology, the Poisson fluctuations in source and sky background photon arrivals dominate the noise budget and are readily estima…