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20152025
most citedEight Ultra-faint Galaxy Candidates Discovered in Year Two of the Dark Energy Survey

534 citations · 1.6k across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

photoD with Rubin's Data Preview 1: first stellar photometric distances and deficit of faint blue stars. Stellar distances with Rubin's DP1

L. Palaversa, E. Donev, Ž. Ivezić +96

Aims: We investigate the utility of Rubin's Data Preview 1 for estimating stellar number density profile in the Milky Way halo. Methods: Stellar broad-band near-UV to near-IR $ugri…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Photometric Redshift Estimation for Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1 with Redshift Assessment Infrastructure Layers (RAIL)

T. Zhang, E. Charles, J. F. Crenshaw +87

We present the first systematic analysis of photometric redshifts (photo-z) estimated from the Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1 (DP1) data taken with the Legacy Survey of Space and…

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.CO2024

Mass calibration of DES Year-3 clusters via SPT-3G CMB cluster lensing

B. Ansarinejad, S. Raghunathan, T. M. C. Abbott +142

We measure the stacked lensing signal in the direction of galaxy clusters in the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) redMaPPer sample, using cosmic microwave background (CMB) temper…

astro-ph.GA2023

Cosmological shocks around galaxy clusters: A coherent investigation with DES, SPT & ACT

D. Anbajagane, C. Chang, E. J. Baxter +111

We search for signatures of cosmological shocks in gas pressure profiles of galaxy clusters using the cluster catalogs from three surveys: the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3, the…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 73 cited

Birds of a Feather? Magellan/IMACS Spectroscopy of the Ultra-Faint Satellites Grus II, Tucana IV, and Tucana V

J. D. Simon, T. S. Li, D. Erkal +54

We present Magellan/IMACS spectroscopy of three recently discovered ultra-faint Milky Way satellites, Grus II, Tucana IV, and Tucana V. We measure systemic velocities of V_hel = -1…

astro-ph.EP2018

Pre-MAP Search for Transiting Objects Orbiting White Dwarfs

Aislynn Wallach, Brett M. Morris, Doug Branton +7

Metal pollution in white dwarf atmospheres may be the accreted remnants of planetary objects. After the discovery of disintegrating planetary objects transiting WD 1145+017 (Vander…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 34 cited

BAO from angular clustering: optimization and mitigation of theoretical systematics

K. C. Chan, M. Crocce, A. J. Ross +58

We study the methodology and potential theoretical systematics of measuring Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) using the angular correlation functions in tomographic bins. We calib…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 269 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: A Precise H0 Measurement from DES Y1, BAO, and D/H Data

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla +88

We combine Dark Energy Survey Year 1 clustering and weak lensing data with Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) experiments to constrain the Hubble…

astro-ph.GA2017

Extreme variability quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Dark Energy Survey

Nick Rumbaugh, Yue Shen, Eric Morganson +49

We perform a systematic search for long-term extreme variability quasars (EVQs) in the overlapping Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and 3-Year Dark Energy Survey (DES) imaging, whic…

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.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.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…