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most citedEight Ultra-faint Galaxy Candidates Discovered in Year Two of the Dark Energy Survey

534 citations · 813 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

astro-ph.CO2025

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Photometric Data Set for Cosmology

K. Bechtol, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, A. Drlica-Wagner +103

We describe the photometric data set assembled from the full six years of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) in support of static-sky cosmology analyses. DES Y6 Gold is a…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 34 cited

Identifying RR Lyrae Variable Stars in Six Years of the Dark Energy Survey

K. M. Stringer, A. Drlica-Wagner, L. Macri +67

We present a search for RR Lyrae stars using the full six-year data set from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) covering ~5,000 sq. deg. of the southern sky. Using a multi-stage multi-va…

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.GA2019★ 52 cited

Search for RR Lyrae stars in DES ultra-faint systems: Grus I, Kim 2, Phoenix II, and Grus II

C. E. Martínez-Vázquez, A. K. Vivas, M. Foucoin +57

This work presents the first search for RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) in four of the ultra-faint systems imaged by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) using SOAR/Goodman and Blanco/DECam imagers.…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 23 cited

Identification of RR Lyrae stars in multiband, sparsely-sampled data from the Dark Energy Survey using template fitting and Random Forest classification

K. M. Stringer, J. P. Long, L. M. Macri +75

Many studies have shown that RR Lyrae variable stars (RRL) are powerful stellar tracers of Galactic halo structure and satellite galaxies. The Dark Energy Survey (DES), with its de…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 68 cited

Modelling the Tucana III stream - a close passage with the LMC

D. Erkal, T. S. Li, S. E. Koposov +67

We present results of the first dynamical stream fits to the recently discovered Tucana III stream. These fits assume a fixed Milky Way potential and give proper motion predictions…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 76 cited

The First Tidally Disrupted Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy? - Spectroscopic Analysis of the Tucana III Stream

T. S. Li, J. D. Simon, K. Kuehn +68

We present a spectroscopic study of the tidal tails and core of the Milky Way satellite Tucana III, collectively referred to as the Tucana III stream, using the 2dF+AAOmega spectro…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 4 cited

A Wide-Field Survey for Transiting Hot Jupiters and Eclipsing Pre-Main-Sequence Binaries in Young Stellar Associations

Ryan J. Oelkers, Lucas M. Macri, Jennifer L. Marshall +4

The past two decades have seen a significant advancement in the detection, classification and understanding of exoplanets and binaries. This is due, in large part, to the increase…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 534 cited

Eight Ultra-faint Galaxy Candidates Discovered in Year Two of the Dark Energy Survey

The DES Collaboration, A. Drlica-Wagner, K. Bechtol +74

We report the discovery of eight new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidates in the second year of optical imaging data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Six of these candidates are d…