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most citedThe DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

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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★ 83 cited

Assessing tension metrics with Dark Energy Survey and Planck data

P. Lemos, M. Raveri, A. Campos +103

Quantifying tensions -- inconsistencies amongst measurements of cosmological parameters by different experiments -- has emerged as a crucial part of modern cosmological data analys…

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.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.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★ 111 cited

Cosmological Constraints from DES Y1 Cluster Abundances and SPT Multi-wavelength data

M. Costanzi, A. Saro, S. Bocquet +87

We perform a joint analysis of the counts of redMaPPer clusters selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y1 data and multi-wavelength follow-up data collected within the 2500 deg…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 32 cited

DES Y1 results: Splitting growth and geometry to test CDM

J. Muir, E. Baxter, V. Miranda +100

We analyze Dark Energy Survey (DES) data to constrain a cosmological model where a subset of parameters -- focusing on -- are split into versions associated with structure gr…

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.CO2020★ 39 cited

Perturbation theory for modeling galaxy bias: validation with simulations of the Dark Energy Survey

S. Pandey, E. Krause, B. Jain +52

We describe perturbation theory (PT) models of galaxy bias for applications to photometric galaxy surveys. We model the galaxy-galaxy and galaxy-matter correlation functions in con…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 50 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Constraining Baryonic Physics in the Universe

Hung-Jin Huang, Tim Eifler, Rachel Mandelbaum +74

Measurements of large-scale structure are interpreted using theoretical predictions for the matter distribution, including potential impacts of baryonic physics. We constrain the f…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 13 cited

Masses: Weak Lensing Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 redMaPPer Clusters using Stellar Masses

M. E. S. Pereira, A. Palmese, T. N. Varga +78

We present the weak lensing mass calibration of the stellar mass based mass proxy for redMaPPer galaxy clusters in the Dark Energy Survey Year 1. For the first time we…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 51 cited

Cosmology with the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope -- Synergies with the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time

Tim Eifler, Melanie Simet, Elisabeth Krause +27

We explore synergies between the space-based Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) and the ground-based Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). In particu…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 279 cited

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

DES Collaboration, Tim Abbott, Michel Aguena +129

We perform a joint analysis of the counts and weak lensing signal of redMaPPer clusters selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 dataset. Our analysis uses the same shear…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 102 cited

First Cosmology Results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: The Effect of Host Galaxy Properties on Supernova Luminosity

M. Smith, M. Sullivan, P. Wiseman +88

We present improved photometric measurements for the host galaxies of 206 spectroscopically confirmed type Ia supernovae discovered by the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES…