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20182026
most citedThe DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey: Overview and First Data Release

119 citations · 614 across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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37 papers

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

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.GA2026

The DECam MAGIC Survey Mapping the Ancient Galaxy in CaHK: Overview and Summary of Early Science

A. Chiti, A. Drlica-Wagner, A. B. Pace +42

We present the DECam Mapping the Ancient Galaxy in CaHK (MAGIC) survey, a 54-night NOIRLab Survey Program to image 5,000deg of the southern hemisphere using a meta…

astro-ph.HE2026

Search For a Counterpart to the Subsolar Mass Gravitational Wave Candidate S251112cm

Nicholas Vieira, Noah Franz, Bhagya Subrayan +49

The recent candidate gravitational-wave (GW) alert from a compact object merger involving at least one subsolar mass (SSM) object has prompted questions about their origins. S25111…

astro-ph.HE2025

Probing the origin of the kilonova candidate GRB 230307A: analysis of host galaxy and offset

Clecio R. Bom, Davi C. Rodrigues, Arianna Cortesi +12

We investigate the host galaxy of the long gamma-ray burst GRB 230307A, which is associated with a kilonova candidate likely produced by a binary neutron-star (BNS) merger. The tra…

astro-ph.HE2025

Optimizing Kilonova Searches: A Case Study of the Type IIb SN 2025ulz in the Localization Volume of the Low-Significance Gravitational Wave Event S250818k

Noah Franz, Bhagya Subrayan, Charles D. Kilpatrick +54

Kilonovae, the ultraviolet/optical/infrared counterparts to binary neutron star mergers, are an exceptionally rare class of transients. Optical follow-up campaigns are plagued by c…

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

Identifying a protocluster formation at z 4.5 in the COSMOS field: an extension of Taralay protocluster, traced by Ly-alpha emitters surrounding a submm galaxy

Mariana Rubet, Karín Menéndez-Delmestre, Thiago Signorini Gonçalves +4

We report the discovery of a large-scale structure containing multiple overdensities at in the COSMOS field, with the most prominent one likely infalling towards…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Low-redshift analogues of cosmic noon galaxies as laboratories for clumpy star formation

Jorge M. Santos-Junior, Thiago S. Goncalves, Luidhy Santana-Silva +3

It has been established that a significant fraction of star formation at high-redshift occurs in clumpy galaxies. The properties of clumps and their formation mechanisms, however,…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 10 cited

Kilonova constraints for the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA neutron star merger candidate S250206dm: GW-MMADS observations

Lei Hu, Tomás Cabrera, Antonella Palmese +35

Gravitational wave (GW) neutron star mergers with an associated electromagnetic counterpart constitute powerful probes of binary evolution, the production sites of heavy elements,…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

An extremely soft and weak fast X-ray transient associated with a luminous supernova

W. -X. Li, Z. -P. Zhu, X. -Z. Zou +101

Long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs), including their subclasses of low-luminosity GRBs (LL-GRBs) and X-ray flashes (XRFs) characterized by low spectral peak energies, are known to be ass…

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.HE2024★ 1 cited

The Long-lived Broadband Afterglow of Short Gamma-Ray Burst 231117A and the Growing Radio-Detected Short GRB Population

Genevieve Schroeder, Wen-fai Fong, Charles D. Kilpatrick +28

We present multiwavelength observations of the Swift short -ray burst GRB 231117A, localized to an underlying galaxy at redshift at a small projected offset ($\sim 2…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

A dark standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant following LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA O4a and previous runs

C. R. Bom, V. Alfradique, A. Palmese +4

We present a new constraint on the Hubble constant () from the standard dark siren method using a sample of well-covered gravitational waves (GW) alerts reported during th…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

A dark siren measurement of the Hubble constant using gravitational wave events from the first three LIGO/Virgo observing runs and DELVE

V. Alfradique, C. R. Bom, A. Palmese +17

The current and next observation seasons will detect hundreds of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary systems coalescence at cosmological distances. When combined with ind…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

An Extended Catalogue of galaxy morphology using Deep Learning in Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey Data Release 3

C. R. Bom, A. Cortesi, U. Ribeiro +22

The morphological diversity of galaxies is a relevant probe of galaxy evolution and cosmological structure formation. However, in large sky surveys, even the morphological classifi…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

Designing an Optimal Kilonova Search using DECam for Gravitational Wave Events

C. R. Bom, J. Annis, A. Garcia +67

We address the problem of optimally identifying all kilonovae detected via gravitational wave emission in the upcoming LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Collaboration observing run, O4, which is ex…

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.EP2022★ 15 cited

A Deep and Wide Twilight Survey for Asteroids Interior to Earth and Venus

Scott S. Sheppard, David Tholen, Petr Pokorny +17

We are conducting a survey using twilight time on the Dark Energy Camera with the Blanco 4m telescope in Chile to look for objects interior to Earth's and Venus' orbits. To date we…