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20192026
most citedThe DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey: Overview and First Data Release

119 citations · 703 across the 62 of their papers we have counts for

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65 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, Characterization, and Potential Origins of a Stream in the Stellar Halo of Nearby LMC-Mass Galaxy NGC 55

Benjamin N. Velguth, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Erik Tollerud +33

We present a previously undetected stellar stream in the halo of the LMC-mass dwarf galaxy NGC 55 (2 Mpc), as part of an ongoing effort to characterize the stellar halos of LMC/SMC…

astro-ph.CO2026

Physics-guided discovery of dynamical dark-energy equations of state through iterative AI reasoning

Clecio R. Bom, Bernardo M. Fraga, Miguel A. Sabogal +3

Phenomenological model building has traditionally relied on human reasoning: equations are proposed from theoretical intuition, analogy, or empirical convenience, and only then tes…

astro-ph.IM2026

Toward decision-aware AI for LSST-scale time-domain astronomy

C. R. Bom, A. Mahabal, F. Bianco +27

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will generate approximately (10^7) alerts per night, pushing time-domain astronomy beyond pipelines that trea…

astro-ph.SR2026

Stochastic Optical Variability and an rms-flux Relation in the Intermediate Polar EP240309a

S. -Y. Wu, Y. -D. Hu, I. Perez-Garcia +18

Magnetic cataclysmic variables provide a natural laboratory for studying how accretion interacts with compact-object magnetospheres and generates stochastic variability. We present…

astro-ph.HE2026

Searching for Binary Black Hole Merger Emission in AGN Disks: Optical and Spectroscopic Follow-up of S240413p

P. Darc, C. R. Bom, A. Santos +7

The conditions under which binary black hole (BBH) mergers embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks produce detectable optical counterparts remain poorly constrained observa…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Caught in the web: galaxy mergers along cosmic filaments

Carolina Dulcien, Yara L. Jaffe, Jacob P. Crossett +31

Galaxy clusters grow through the accretion of galaxies from groups, filaments, and other clusters. During this process, galaxies may undergo pre-processing in lower-density environ…

astro-ph.CO2026

SLSim: a strong lensing population simulation package

Narayan Khadka, Simon Birrer, Henry Best +45

Gravitational lensing offers unique insights into cosmology by bending light around massive objects. Strong gravitational lensing, in particular, produces magnified and often multi…

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.CO2025

Homogeneity scale in the local Universe: Model-independent estimate from S-PLUS iDR6 blue galaxies

Camila Franco, Felipe Avila, Armando Bernui +8

We present a model-independent estimate of the angular homogeneity scale in the local Universe by analysing data from the Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS). Two c…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

The role of supercluster filaments in shaping galaxy clusters

Raúl Baier-Soto, Yara Jaffé, Alexis Finoguenov +44

In a hierarchical CDM Universe, cosmic filaments serve as the primary channels for matter accretion into galaxy clusters, influencing the shape of their dark matter halos. We in…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Targeting cluster galaxies for the 4MOST CHANCES Low-z sub-survey with photometric redshifts

Hugo Méndez-Hernández, Ciria Lima-Dias, Antonela Monachesi +54

The evolution of galaxies is shaped by both internal processes and their external environments. Galaxy clusters and their surroundings provide ideal laboratories to study these eff…

astro-ph.HE2025

Multi-wavelength analysis of the progenitor of GRB 230307A via Bayesian model comparison

V. Alfradique, R. da Mata, J. C. Rodríguez-Ramírez +1

GRB 230307A is one of the brightest long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) ever detected, yet its progenitor remains uncertain due to the variety of plausible astrophysical scenario…

astro-ph.HE2025

SN 2022acko and the Properties of its Red Supergiant Progenitor: Direct Detection, Light Curves, and Nebular Spectroscopy

Gabriel Teixeira, Charlie D. Kilpatrick, Clécio R. Bom +12

We present ultraviolet, optical, and infrared observations of the Type II-P supernova SN 2022acko in NGC 1300, located at a distance of 19.0 +/- 2.9 Mpc. Our dataset spans 1-350 da…

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.CO2025★ 1 cited

A cosmology weakly dependent measurement of 2D Baryon Acoustic Oscillations scale from the Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey

U. Ribeiro, F. Avila, C. R. Bom +8

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) provide a robust standard ruler for observational cosmology, enabling precise constraints on the expansion history of the Universe. We present a…

astro-ph.HE2025

Long-Term Optical Follow Up of S231206cc: Multi-Model Constraints on BBH Merger Emission in AGN Disks

P. Darc, C. R. Bom, C. D. Kilpatrick +9

The majority of gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA Collaboration originate from binary black hole (BBH) mergers, for which no confirmed electromagneti…

astro-ph.GA2025

The NGC3109 Satellite System: The First Systematic Resolved Search for Dwarf Galaxies Around a SMC-mass Host

Amandine Doliva-Dolinsky, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Denija Crnojević +38

We report the results of the deepest search to date for dwarf galaxies around NGC3109, a barred spiral galaxy with a mass similar to that of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), using…

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.GA2025★ 4 cited

DELVE-DEEP Survey: The Faint Satellite System of NGC 55

Jonah Medoff, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Jeffrey L. Carlin +24

We report the first comprehensive census of the satellite dwarf galaxies around NGC 55 ( Mpc) as a part of the DECam Local Volume Exploration DEEP (DELVE-DEEP) survey. NGC 55…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

EP 250108a/SN 2025kg: Observations of the most nearby Broad-Line Type Ic Supernova following an Einstein Probe Fast X-ray Transient

J. C. Rastinejad, A. J. Levan, P. G. Jonker +66

With a small sample of fast X-ray transients (FXTs) with multi-wavelength counterparts discovered to date, the progenitors of FXTs and their connections to gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)…

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★ 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…