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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…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 54 cited

Galaxies in X-ray Selected Clusters and Groups in Dark Energy Survey Data I: Stellar Mass Growth of Bright Central Galaxies Since z~1.2

Y. Zhang, C. Miller, T. Mckay +80

Using the science verification data of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) for a new sample of 106 X-Ray selected clusters and groups, we study the stellar mass growth of Bright Central G…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 155 cited

Automated Transient Identification in the Dark Energy Survey

D. A. Goldstein, C. B. D'Andrea, J. A. Fischer +64

We describe an algorithm for identifying point-source transients and moving objects on reference-subtracted optical images containing artifacts of processing and instrumentation. T…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 162 cited

Stellar Kinematics and Metallicities in the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II

J. D. Simon, A. Drlica-Wagner, T. S. Li +69

We present Magellan/M2FS, VLT/GIRAFFE, and Gemini South/GMOS spectroscopy of the newly discovered Milky Way satellite Reticulum II. Based on the spectra of 25 Ret II member stars s…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 198 cited

Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from DES Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Candidates with Fermi-LAT Data

LAT Collaboration, The DES Collaboration, A. Drlica-Wagner +123

Due to their proximity, high dark-matter content, and apparent absence of non-thermal processes, Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) are excellent targets for the…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 576 cited

Eight New Milky Way Companions Discovered in First-Year Dark Energy Survey Data

The DES Collaboration, K. Bechtol, A. Drlica-Wagner +91

We report the discovery of eight new Milky Way companions in ~1,800 deg^2 of optical imaging data collected during the first year of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Each system is id…