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most citedLSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

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37 papers

astro-ph.IM2019★ 1 cited

Why is the LSST Science Platform built on Kubernetes?

Christine Banek, Adam Thornton, Frossie Economou +3

LSST has chosen Kubernetes as the platform for deploying and operating the LSST Science Platform. We first present the background reasoning behind this decision, including both ins…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 22 cited

Deep SOAR follow-up photometry of two Milky Way outer-halo companions discovered with Dark Energy Survey

E. Luque, B. Santiago, A. Pieres +48

We report the discovery of a new star cluster, DES 3, in the constellation of Indus, and deeper observations of the previously identified satellite DES J0222.75217 (Eridanus III…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 5 cited

DES Science Portal: Creating Science-Ready Catalogs

Angelo Fausti Neto, Luiz da Costa, Aurelio Carnero Rosell +55

We present a novel approach for creating science-ready catalogs through a software infrastructure developed for the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We integrate the data products release…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 97 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 204 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2016

A stellar over-density associated with the Small Magellanic Cloud

A. Pieres, B. X. Santiago, A. Drlica-Wagner +64

We report the discovery of a stellar over-density 8 north of the center of the Small Magellanic Cloud (Small Magellanic Cloud Northern Over-Density; SMCNOD) using data fr…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 500 cited

Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation in Recently Discovered Milky Way Satellites with Fermi-LAT

The Fermi-LAT, DES Collaborations, A. Albert +70

We search for excess gamma-ray emission coincident with the positions of confirmed and candidate Milky Way satellite galaxies using 6 years of data from the Fermi Large Area Telesc…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 2 cited

The Dark Energy Survey view of the Sagittarius stream: discovery of two faint stellar system candidates

E. Luque, A. Pieres, B. Santiago +63

We report the discovery of two new candidate stellar systems in the constellation of Cetus using the data from the first two years of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The objects, DES…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 47 cited

The Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei in Clusters of Galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey

E. Bufanda, D. Hollowood, T. E. Jeltema +53

The correlation between active galactic nuclei (AGN) and environment provides important clues to AGN fueling and the relationship of black hole growth to galaxy evolution. In this…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 57 cited

A DECam Search for an Optical Counterpart to the LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW151226

P. S. Cowperthwaite, E. Berger, M. Soares-Santos +97

We report the results of a Dark Energy Camera (DECam) optical follow-up of the gravitational wave (GW) event GW151226, discovered by the Advanced LIGO detectors. Our observations c…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 118 cited

Cosmic Voids and Void Lensing in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data

C. Sánchez, J. Clampitt, A. Kovacs +69

Galaxies and their dark matter halos populate a complicated filamentary network around large, nearly empty regions known as cosmic voids. Cosmic voids are usually identified in spe…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 98 cited

The LSST Data Management System

Mario Jurić, Jeffrey Kantor, K-T Lim +62

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a large-aperture, wide-field, ground-based survey system that will image the sky in six optical bands from 320 to 1050 nm, uniformly c…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 4 cited

Photometric redshifts and clustering of emission line galaxies selected jointly by DES and eBOSS

S. Jouvel, T. Delubac, J. Comparat +65

We present the results of the first test plates of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. This paper focuses on the emission line galaxies (ELG) population targetted…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 60 cited

Digging deeper into the Southern skies: a compact Milky-Way companion discovered in first-year Dark Energy Survey data

E. Luque, A. Queiroz, B. Santiago +61

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a 5000 sq. degree survey in the southern hemisphere, which is rapidly reducing the existing north-south asymmetry in the census of MW satellites and…

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…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 65 cited

Mapping and simulating systematics due to spatially-varying observing conditions in DES Science Verification data

B. Leistedt, H. V. Peiris, F. Elsner +92

Spatially-varying depth and characteristics of observing conditions, such as seeing, airmass, or sky background, are major sources of systematic uncertainties in modern galaxy surv…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 27 cited

Observation of Two New L4 Neptune Trojans in the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Fields

D. W. Gerdes, R. J. Jennings, G. M. Bernstein +62

We report the discovery of the eighth and ninth known Trojans in stable orbits around Neptune's leading Lagrange point, L4. The objects 2014 QO and 2014 QP were det…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 189 cited

The DES Science Verification Weak Lensing Shear Catalogues

M. Jarvis, E. Sheldon, J. Zuntz +92

We present weak lensing shear catalogues for 139 square degrees of data taken during the Science Verification (SV) time for the new Dark Energy Camera (DECam) being used for the Da…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 178 cited

Cosmology from Cosmic Shear with DES Science Verification Data

The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration, T. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla +126

We present the first constraints on cosmology from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), using weak lensing measurements from the preliminary Science Verification (SV) data. We use 139 squ…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 169 cited

The Difference Imaging Pipeline for the Transient Search in the Dark Energy Survey

R. Kessler, J. Marriner, M. Childress +60

We describe the difference imaging pipeline (DiffImg) used to detect transients in deep images from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova program (DES-SN) in its first observing season…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 107 cited

OzDES multi-fibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: first-year operation and results

Fang Yuan, C. Lidman, T. M. Davis +99

OzDES is a five-year, 100-night, spectroscopic survey on the Anglo-Australian Telescope, whose primary aim is to measure redshifts of approximately 2,500 Type Ia supernovae host ga…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 1.1k cited

The Dark Energy Camera

B. Flaugher, H. T. Diehl, K. Honscheid +115

The Dark Energy Camera is a new imager with a 2.2-degree diameter field of view mounted at the prime focus of the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter telescope on Cerro Tololo near La Serena,…

astro-ph.HE2015

DESAlert: Enabling Real-Time Transient Follow-Up with Dark Energy Survey Data

A. Poci, K. Kuehn, the DES Collaboration +63

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is currently undertaking an observational program imaging of the southern hemisphere sky with unprecedented photometric accuracy. In the process…