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Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Calibration of redMaGiC Redshift Distributions in DES and SDSS from Cross-Correlations
R. Cawthon, C. Davis, M. Gatti +88
We present calibrations of the redshift distributions of redMaGiC galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR8 data. These results det…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scale in the distribution of galaxies to redshift 1
The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla +109
We present angular diameter distance measurements obtained by locating the BAO scale in the distribution of galaxies selected from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data. We con…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: A Precise H0 Measurement from DES Y1, BAO, and D/H Data
DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla +88
We combine Dark Energy Survey Year 1 clustering and weak lensing data with Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) experiments to constrain the Hubble…
The Splashback Feature around DES Galaxy Clusters: Galaxy Density and Weak Lensing Profiles
C. Chang, E. Baxter, B. Jain +82
Splashback refers to the process of matter that is accreting onto a dark matter halo reaching its first orbital apocenter and turning around in its orbit. The cluster-centric radiu…
Galaxies in X-ray Selected Clusters and Groups in Dark Energy Survey Data II: Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling of the Red-Sequence Galaxy Luminosity Function
Y. Zhang, C. J. Miller, P. Rooney +77
Using X-ray selected clusters in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data, we constrain the luminosity function (LF) of cluster red sequence galaxies as a functi…
Density split statistics: joint model of counts and lensing in cells
O. Friedrich, D. Gruen, J. DeRose +71
We present density split statistics, a framework that studies lensing and counts-in-cells as a function of foreground galaxy density, thereby providing a large-scale measurement of…
Density split statistics: Cosmological constraints from counts and lensing in cells in DES Y1 and SDSS data
D. Gruen, O. Friedrich, E. Krause +93
We derive cosmological constraints from the probability distribution function (PDF) of evolved large-scale matter density fluctuations. We do this by splitting lines of sight by de…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cross-Correlation Redshifts - Methods and Systematics Characterization
M. Gatti, P. Vielzeuf, C. Davis +104
We use numerical simulations to characterize the performance of a clustering-based method to calibrate photometric redshift biases. In particular, we cross-correlate the weak lensi…
OzDES multifibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: Three year results and first data release
M. J. Childress, C. Lidman, T. M. Davis +98
We present results for the first three years of OzDES, a six-year programme to obtain redshifts for objects in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) supernova fields using the 2dF fibre pos…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Cosmic Shear
M. A. Troxel, N. MacCrann, J. Zuntz +132
We use 26 million galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 shape catalogs over 1321 deg of the sky to produce the most significant measurement of cosmic shear in a gal…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing
J. Prat, C. Sánchez, Y. Fang +112
We present galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from 1321 sq. deg. of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 (Y1) data. The lens sample consists of a selection of 660,000 red galaxies w…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Galaxy clustering for combined probes
J. Elvin-Poole, M. Crocce, A. J. Ross +123
We measure the clustering of DES Year 1 galaxies that are intended to be combined with weak lensing samples in order to produce precise cosmological constraints from the joint anal…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Curved-Sky Weak Lensing Mass Map
C. Chang, A. Pujol, B. Mawdsley +117
We construct the largest curved-sky galaxy weak lensing mass map to date from the DES first-year (DES Y1) data. The map, about 10 times larger than previous work, is constructed ov…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Weak Lensing Shape Catalogues
J. Zuntz, E. Sheldon, S. Samuroff +104
We present two galaxy shape catalogues from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 data set, covering 1500 square degrees with a median redshift of . The catalogues cover two main fie…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Redshift distributions of the weak lensing source galaxies
B. Hoyle, D. Gruen, G. M. Bernstein +135
We describe the derivation and validation of redshift distribution estimates and their uncertainties for the galaxies used as weak lensing sources in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Photometric Data Set for Cosmology
A. Drlica-Wagner, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, E. S. Rykoff +86
We describe the creation, content, and validation of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) internal year-one cosmology data set, Y1A1 GOLD, in support of upcoming cosmological analyses. The…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing
DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla +197
We present cosmological results from a combined analysis of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing, using 1321 deg of imaging data from the first year of the D…
A Measurement of CMB Cluster Lensing with SPT and DES Year 1 Data
E. J. Baxter, S. Raghunathan, T. M. Crawford +118
Clusters of galaxies gravitationally lens the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, resulting in a distinct imprint in the CMB on arcminute scales. Measurement of this effec…
Evolution of Galaxy Luminosity and Stellar-Mass Functions since with the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data
D. Capozzi, J. Etherington, D. Thomas +60
We present the first study of the evolution of the galaxy luminosity and stellar-mass functions (GLF and GSMF) carried out by the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We describe the COMMODOR…
Cross-Correlation Redshift Calibration Without Spectroscopic Calibration Samples in DES Science Verification Data
C. Davis, E. Rozo, A. Roodman +74
Galaxy cross-correlations with high-fidelity redshift samples hold the potential to precisely calibrate systematic photometric redshift uncertainties arising from the unavailabilit…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Multi-Probe Methodology and Simulated Likelihood Analyses
E. Krause, T. F. Eifler, J. Zuntz +83
We present the methodology for and detail the implementation of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) 3x2pt DES Year 1 (Y1) analysis, which combines configuration-space two-point statistics…
Core or cusps: The central dark matter profile of a redshift one strong lensing cluster with a bright central image
Thomas E. Collett, Elizabeth Buckley-Geer, Huan Lin +58
We report on SPT-CLJ2011-5228, a giant system of arcs created by a cluster at . The arc system is notable for the presence of a bright central image. The source is a Lyman…
Stellar-to-halo mass relation of cluster galaxies
Anna Niemiec, Eric Jullo, Marceau Limousin +12
In the hierarchical formation model, galaxy clusters grow by accretion of smaller groups or isolated galaxies. During the infall into the centre of a cluster, the properties of acc…
The Halo Boundary of Galaxy Clusters in the SDSS
Eric Baxter, Chihway Chang, Bhuvnesh Jain +7
Mass around dark matter halos can be divided into "infalling" material and "collapsed" material that has passed through at least one pericenter. Analytical models and simulations p…