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astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

OzDES Reverberation Mapping of Active Galactic Nuclei: Final Data Release, Black-Hole Mass Results, & Scaling Relations

H. McDougall, T. M. Davis, Z. Yu +53

Over the last decade, the Australian Dark Energy (OzDES) collaboration has used Reverberation Mapping to measure the masses of high redshift supermassive black holes. Here we prese…

astro-ph.GA2025

OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: CIV lags from six years of data

A. Penton, H. McDougall, T. M. Davis +52

We present 29 successfully recovered CIV time lags in Active Galactic Nuclei from the complete Dark Energy Survey Reverberation Mapping campaign. The AGN in this sample span a reds…

astro-ph.GA2025

Constraining the Stellar-to-Halo Mass Relation with Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing from DES Year 3 Data

G. Zacharegkas, C. Chang, J. Prat +100

We develop a framework to study the relation between the stellar mass of a galaxy and the total mass of its host dark matter halo using galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Weak Gravitational Lensing around Low Surface Brightness Galaxies in the DES Year 3 Data

N. Chicoine, J. Prat, G. Zacharegkas +102

We present galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements using a sample of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) drawn from the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (Y3) data as lenses. LSBGs are diff…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

The PAU Survey: The quasar UV and Ly luminosity functions at

Alberto Torralba-Torregrosa, Pablo Renard, Daniele Spinoso +17

We present the Lyman- (Ly) and ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function (LF), in bins of redshift, of quasars selected in the Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS).…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: Stacking analysis with H, Mg II and C IV

Umang Malik, Rob Sharp, A. Penton +47

Reverberation mapping is the leading technique used to measure direct black hole masses outside of the local Universe. Additionally, reverberation measurements calibrate secondary…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

The PAU Survey: galaxy stellar population properties estimates with narrowband data

Benjamin Csizi, Luca Tortorelli, Małgorzata Siudek +17

Narrowband galaxy surveys have recently gained interest as a promising method to achieve the necessary accuracy on the photometric redshift estimate of individual galaxies for stag…

astro-ph.GA2023

The PAU Survey: a new constraint on galaxy formation models using the observed colour redshift relation

G. Manzoni, C. M. Baugh, P. Norberg +27

We use the GALFORM semi-analytical galaxy formation model implemented in the Planck Millennium N-body simulation to build a mock galaxy catalogue on an observer's past lightcone. T…

astro-ph.GA2023

Chemical Analysis of the Brightest Star of the Cetus II Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Candidate

K. B. Webber, T. T. Hansen, J. L. Marshall +42

We present a detailed chemical abundance analysis of the brightest star in the ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxy candidate Cetus II from high-resolution Magellan/MIKE spectra. For thi…

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★ 1 cited

The PAU Survey: Classifying low-z SEDs using Machine Learning clustering

A. L. González-Morán, P. Arrabal Haro, C. Muñóz-Tuñón +15

We present an application of unsupervised Machine Learning Clustering to the PAU Survey of galaxy spectral energy distribution (SED) within the COSMOS field. The clustering algorit…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 6 cited

The PAU Survey: Close galaxy pairs identification and analysis

E. J. Gonzalez, F. Rodriguez, D. Navarro-Gironés +18

Galaxy pairs constitute the initial building blocks of galaxy evolution, which is driven through merger events and interactions. Thus, the analysis of these systems can be valuable…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 31 cited

Timing the r-Process Enrichment of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II

Joshua D. Simon, Thomas M. Brown, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil +65

The ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Reticulum II (Ret II) exhibits a unique chemical evolution history, with 72 +10/-12% of its stars strongly enhanced in r-process elements. We present d…

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

OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: H lags from the 6-year survey

Umang Malik, Rob Sharp, A. Penton +64

Reverberation mapping measurements have been used to constrain the relationship between the size of the broad-line region and luminosity of active galactic nuclei (AGN). This …

astro-ph.GA2022★ 26 cited

Characterising the Intracluster Light over the Redshift Range in the DES-ACT Overlap

Jesse B. Golden-Marx, Y. Zhang, R. L. C. Ogando +66

We characterise the properties and evolution of Bright Central Galaxies (BCGs) and the surrounding intracluster light (ICL) in galaxy clusters identified in overlapping regions of…

astro-ph.GA2022

OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: Mg II Lags and R-L relation

Zhefu Yu, Paul Martini, A. Penton +55

The correlation between the broad line region radius and continuum luminosity ( relation) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is critical for single-epoch mass estimates of superm…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

The PAU Survey: Measurements of the 4000 Å spectral break with narrow-band photometry

Pablo Renard, Małgorzata Siudek, Martin B. Eriksen +19

The D4000 spectral break index is one of the most important features in the visible spectrum, as it is a proxy for stellar ages and is also used in galaxy classification. However,…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 75 cited

Optical Variability of Quasars with 20-Year Photometric Light Curves

Zachary Stone, Yue Shen, Colin J. Burke +52

We study the optical photometric variability of a sample of 190 quasars within the SDSS Stripe 82 region that have long-term photometric coverage during with…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 41 cited

Dwarf AGNs from Optical Variability for the Origins of Seeds (DAVOS): Insights from the Dark Energy Survey Deep Fields

Colin J. Burke, Xin Liu, Yue Shen +69

We present a sample of 706, active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selected from optical photometric variability in three of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) deep fields (E2, C3, and…

astro-ph.GA2021

From the Fire: A Deeper Look at the Phoenix Stream

K. Tavangar, P. Ferguson, N. Shipp +64

We use six years of data from the Dark Energy Survey to perform a detailed photometric characterization of the Phoenix stellar stream, a 15-degree long, thin, dynamically cold, low…

astro-ph.GA2021

Multi-wavelength Optical and NIR Variability Analysis of the Blazar PKS 0027-426

E. Guise, S. F. Hönig, T. Almeyda +62

We present multi-wavelength spectral and temporal variability analysis of PKS 0027-426 using optical griz observations from DES (Dark Energy Survey) between 2013-2018 and VOILETTE…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 29 cited

The Observed Evolution of the Stellar Mass - Halo Mass Relation for Brightest Central Galaxies

Jesse B. Golden-Marx, C. J. Miller, Y. Zhang +73

We quantify evolution in the cluster scale stellar mass - halo mass (SMHM) relation's parameters using 2323 clusters and brightest central galaxies (BCGs) over the redshift range $…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 23 cited

The PAU Survey: Measurement of Narrow-band galaxy properties with Approximate Bayesian Computation

Luca Tortorelli, Malgorzata Siudek, Beatrice Moser +22

Narrow-band imaging surveys allow the study of the spectral characteristics of galaxies without the need of performing their spectroscopic follow-up. In this work, we forward-model…