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most citedThe Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological Implications from two Decades of Spectroscopic Surveys at the Apache Point observatory

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astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1) -- Data release overview

Euclid Collaboration, H. Aussel, I. Tereno +407

The first Euclid Quick Data Release, Q1, comprises 63.1 sq deg of the Euclid Deep Fields (EDFs) to nominal wide-survey depth. It encompasses visible and near-infrared space-based i…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 2 cited

UNITSIM-Galaxies: data release and clustering of emission-line galaxies

Alexander Knebe, Daniel Lopez-Cano, Santiago Avila +7

New surveys such as ESA's Euclid mission are planned to map with unprecedented precision the large-scale structure of the Universe by measuring the 3D positions of tens of millions…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 44 cited

Pushing automated morphological classifications to their limits with the Dark Energy Survey

J. Vega-Ferrero, H. Domínguez Sánchez, M. Bernardi +60

We present morphological classifications of 27 million galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Data Release 1 (DR1) using a supervised deep learning algorithm. The classif…

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.GA2020★ 38 cited

Discovery of a Candidate Binary Supermassive Black Hole in a Periodic Quasar from Circumbinary Accretion Variability

Wei-Ting Liao, Yu-Ching Chen, Xin Liu +68

Binary supermassive black holes (BSBHs) are expected to be a generic byproduct from hierarchical galaxy formation. The final coalescence of BSBHs is thought to be the loudest gravi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 46 cited

Dust Reverberation Mapping in Distant Quasars from Optical and Mid-Infrared Imaging Surveys

Qian Yang, Yue Shen, Xin Liu +47

The size of the dust torus in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and their high-luminosity counterparts, quasars, can be inferred from the time delay between UV/optical accretion disk co…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 113 cited

Shadows in the Dark: Low-Surface-Brightness Galaxies Discovered in the Dark Energy Survey

D. Tanoglidis, A. Drlica-Wagner, K. Wei +67

We present a catalog of 23,790 extended low-surface-brightness galaxies (LSBGs) identified in from the first three years of imaging data from the Dark Energy Survey…

astro-ph.GA2020

The Diffuse Light Envelope of Luminous Red Galaxies

Y. Leung, Y. Zhang, B. Yanny +53

We use a stacking method to study the radial light profiles of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) at redshift and , out to a radial range of 200 kpc. We do not fin…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

A Deeper Look at DES Dwarf Galaxy Candidates: Grus I and Indus II

Sarah A. Cantu, Andrew B. Pace, Jennifer Marshall +11

We present deep - and -band Magellan/Megacam photometry of two dwarf galaxy candidates discovered in the Dark Energy Survey (DES), Grus I and Indus II (DES J2038-4609). For t…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 54 cited

Is diffuse intracluster light a good tracer of the galaxy cluster matter distribution?

H. Sampaio-Santos, Y. Zhang, R. L. C. Ogando +64

We explore the relation between diffuse intracluster light (central galaxy included) and the galaxy cluster (baryonic and dark) matter distribution using a sample of 528 clusters a…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 45 cited

A joint SZ-Xray-optical analysis of the dynamical state of 288 massive galaxy clusters

A. Zenteno, D. Hernández-Lang, M. Klein +75

We use imaging from the first three years of the Dark Energy Survey to characterize the dynamical state of 288 galaxy clusters at detected in the Sout…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

STRIDES: Spectroscopic and photometric characterization of the environment and effects of mass along the line of sight to the gravitational lenses DES J0408-5354 and WGD 2038-4008

E. J. Buckley-Geer, H. Lin, C. Rusu +65

In time-delay cosmography, three of the key ingredients are 1) determining the velocity dispersion of the lensing galaxy, 2) identifying galaxies and groups along the line of sight…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 10 cited

Dark Energy Survey Identification of A Low-Mass Active Galactic Nucleus at Redshift 0.823 from Optical Variability

Hengxiao Guo, Colin J. Burke, Xin Liu +56

We report the identification of a low-mass AGN, DES J02180430, in a redshift galaxy in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Supernova field. We select DES J02180430 as an…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 47 cited

The impact of spectroscopic incompleteness in direct calibration of redshift distributions for weak lensing surveys

W. G. Hartley, C. Chang, S. Samani +74

Obtaining accurate distributions of galaxy redshifts is a critical aspect of weak lensing cosmology experiments. One of the methods used to estimate and validate redshift distribut…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 28 cited

Supernova Siblings: Assessing the Consistency of Properties of Type Ia Supernovae that Share the Same Parent Galaxies

D. Scolnic, M. Smith, A. Massiah +82

While many studies have shown a correlation between properties of the light curves of Type Ia SN (SNe Ia) and properties of their host galaxies, it remains unclear what is driving…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 19 cited

The Curious Case of PHL 293B: A Long-Lived Transient in a Metal-Poor Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy

Colin J. Burke, Vivienne F. Baldassare, Xin Liu +51

We report on small-amplitude optical variability and recent dissipation of the unusually persistent broad emission lines in the blue compact dwarf galaxy PHL 293B. The galaxy's unu…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 58 cited

Supernova Host Galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey: I. Deep Coadds, Photometry, and Stellar Masses

P. Wiseman, M. Smith, M. Childress +75

The five-year Dark Energy Survey supernova programme (DES-SN) is one of the largest and deepest transient surveys to date in terms of volume and number of supernovae. Identifying a…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 203 cited

Milky Way Satellite Census. II. Galaxy--Halo Connection Constraints Including the Impact of the Large Magellanic Cloud

E. O. Nadler, R. H. Wechsler, K. Bechtol +63

The population of Milky Way (MW) satellites contains the faintest known galaxies and thus provides essential insight into galaxy formation and dark matter microphysics. Here we com…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 73 cited

Birds of a Feather? Magellan/IMACS Spectroscopy of the Ultra-Faint Satellites Grus II, Tucana IV, and Tucana V

J. D. Simon, T. S. Li, D. Erkal +54

We present Magellan/IMACS spectroscopy of three recently discovered ultra-faint Milky Way satellites, Grus II, Tucana IV, and Tucana V. We measure systemic velocities of V_hel = -1…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 7 cited

Constraining Radio Mode Feedback in Galaxy Clusters with the Cluster Radio AGN Properties to z1

N. Gupta, M. Pannella, J. J. Mohr +58

We study the properties of the Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey (SUMSS) 843~MHz radio AGN population in galaxy clusters from two large catalogs created using the Dark Energy S…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 15 cited

An extended catalog of galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses discovered in DES using convolutional neural networks

C. Jacobs, T. Collett, K. Glazebrook +55

We search Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 imaging for galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses using convolutional neural networks, extending previous work with new training sets…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 38 cited

H0LiCOW X: Spectroscopic/imaging survey and galaxy-group identification around the strong gravitational lens system WFI2033-4723

D. Sluse, C. E. Rusu, C. D. Fassnacht +65

Galaxies and galaxy groups located along the line of sight towards gravitationally lensed quasars produce high-order perturbations of the gravitational potential at the lens positi…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 29 cited

Spectral Variability of a Sample of Extreme Variability Quasars and Implications for the MgII Broad-line Region

Qian Yang, Yue Shen, Yu-Ching Chen +49

We present new Gemini/GMOS optical spectroscopy of 16 extreme variability quasars (EVQs) that dimmed by more than 1.5 mag in the band between the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 53 cited

CIV Black Hole Mass Measurements with the Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES)

J. K. Hoormann, P. Martini, T. M. Davis +67

Black hole mass measurements outside the local universe are critically important to derive the growth of supermassive black holes over cosmic time, and to study the interplay betwe…