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most citedStellar Streams Discovered in the Dark Energy Survey

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astro-ph.CO2026

A DECADE of Giants: A catalog of 42,000 optically identified galaxy clusters from 13,000 of the sky

D. Anbajagane, C. To, M. Gaido +44

Galaxy clusters are sensitive to a rich variety of physics spanning a wide dynamic range, from microphysical to cosmological scales. Optical datasets are efficient at identifying c…

astro-ph.GA2026

Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Milky Way Satellites Boötes V and Leo Minor I and the LMC Satellite DELVE 2: Three Small Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies

W. Cerny, M. Geha, J. D. Simon +22

We present the first multi-object spectroscopy of Boötes V, Leo Minor I, and DELVE 2 -- three small (20 pc 26 pc), ultra-faint () stellar syste…

astro-ph.GA2026

Discovery and Spectroscopic Characterization of a Distant, Compact Milky Way Satellite in Gemini

K. Overdeck, W. Cerny, C. Y. Tan +27

We present the discovery of a compact Milky Way satellite in the constellation of Gemini. This system was discovered by cross-matching detections from two independent search algori…

astro-ph.GA2025

Warped & Hooked: Mapping the Magellanic Clouds in 3D using Red Clump stars

Slater J. Oden, David L. Nidever, Joshua Povick +18

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) are the Milky Way's nearest interacting galaxy pair, offering a unique laboratory for studying tidal effects on galactic disks.…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellites Discovered in Carina, Phoenix, and Telescopium with DELVE Data Release 3

C. Y. Tan, W. Cerny, A. B. Pace +76

We report the discovery of three Milky Way satellite candidates: Carina IV, Phoenix III, and DELVE 7, in the third data release of the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE)…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Robust Measurement of Stellar Streams Around the Milky Way: Correcting Spatially Variable Observational Selection Effects in Optical Imaging Surveys

K. K. Boone, P. S. Ferguson, M. Tabbutt +47

Observations of density variations in stellar streams are a promising probe of low-mass dark matter substructure in the Milky Way. However, survey systematics such as variations in…

astro-ph.GA2025

A DECADE of dwarfs: first detection of weak lensing around spectroscopically confirmed low-mass galaxies

Chun-Hao To, Chihway Chang, Dhayaa Anbajagane +35

We present the first detection of weak gravitational lensing around spectroscopically confirmed dwarf galaxies, using the large overlap between DESI DR1 spectroscopic data and DECA…

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.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

A Census of Variable Radio Sources at GHz

Yjan A. Gordon, Peter S. Ferguson, Michael N. Martinez +1

A wide range of phenomena, from explosive transients to active galactic nuclei, exhibit variability at radio wavelengths on timescales of a few years. Characterizing the rate and s…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

DELVE-ing into the Milky Way's Globular Clusters: Assessing extra-tidal features in NGC 5897, NGC 7492, and testing detectability with deeper photometry

A. Chiti, K. Tavangar, P. S. Ferguson +22

Extra-tidal features around globular clusters (GCs) are tracers of their disruption, stellar stream formation, and their host's gravitational potential. However, these features rem…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 9 cited

Spectroscopic Analysis of Pictor II: a very low metallicity ultra-faint dwarf galaxy bound to the Large Magellanic Cloud

A. B. Pace, T. S. Li, A. P. Ji +30

We present Magellan/IMACS and Magellan/MIKE spectroscopy of the ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxy Pictor~II (Pic~II) that is located only 12 kpc from the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).…

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

Discovery and Spectroscopic Confirmation of Aquarius III: A Low-Mass Milky Way Satellite Galaxy

W. Cerny, A. Chiti, M. Geha +37

We present the discovery of Aquarius III, an ultra-faint Milky Way satellite galaxy identified in the second data release of the DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE) survey. Base…

astro-ph.IM2024

Photometric Redshifts Probability Density Estimation from Recurrent Neural Networks in the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey Data Release 2

G. Teixeira, C. R. Bom, L. Santana-Silva +13

Photometric wide-field surveys are imaging the sky in unprecedented detail. These surveys face a significant challenge in efficiently estimating galactic photometric redshifts whil…

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.GA2023

A search for faint resolved galaxies beyond the Milky Way in DES Year 6: A new faint, diffuse dwarf satellite of NGC 55

M. McNanna, K. Bechtol, S. Mau +63

We report results from a systematic wide-area search for faint dwarf galaxies at heliocentric distances from 0.3 to 2 Mpc using the full six years of data from the Dark Energy Surv…

astro-ph.GA2023

DELVE 6: An Ancient, Ultra-Faint Star Cluster on the Outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds

W. Cerny, A. Drlica-Wagner, T. S. Li +23

We present the discovery of DELVE 6, an ultra-faint stellar system identified in the second data release of the DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE) survey. Based on a maximum-li…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Compact Steep Spectrum Radio Sources with Enhanced Star Formation are Smaller than kpc

Yjan A. Gordon, Christopher P. O'Dea, Stefi A. Baum +3

Compact Steep Spectrum (CSS) radio sources are active galactic nuclei that have radio jets propagating only on galactic scales, defined as having projected linear sizes (LS) of up…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 19 cited

Identification of Galaxy-Galaxy Strong Lens Candidates in the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey Using Machine Learning

E. A. Zaborowski, A. Drlica-Wagner, F. Ashmead +88

We perform a search for galaxy-galaxy strong lens systems using a convolutional neural network (CNN) applied to imaging data from the first public data release of the DECam Local V…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 62 cited

Six More Ultra-Faint Milky Way Companions Discovered in the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey

W. Cerny, C. E. Martínez-Vázquez, A. Drlica-Wagner +28

We report the discovery of six ultra-faint Milky Way satellites discovered through matched-filter searches conducted using Dark Energy Camera (DECam) data processed as part of the…