4 papers
Design of a Skipper CCD Focal Plane for the SOAR Integral Field Spectrograph
Edgar Marrufo Villalpando, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Marco Bonati +14
We present the development of a Skipper Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) focal plane prototype for the SOAR Telescope Integral Field Spectrograph (SIFS). This mosaic focal plane consist…
Rates and delay times of type Ia supernovae in the Dark Energy Survey
P. Wiseman, M. Sullivan, M. Smith +87
We use a sample of 809 photometrically classified type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) along with 40415 field galaxies to calculate the rate of SN…
Galaxy-galaxy lensing with the DES-CMASS catalogue: measurement and constraints on the galaxy-matter cross-correlation
S. Lee, M. A. Troxel, A. Choi +90
The DMASS sample is a photometric sample from the DES Year 1 data set designed to replicate the properties of the CMASS sample from BOSS, in support of a joint analysis of DES and…
Spectral Variability of a Sample of Extreme Variability Quasars and Implications for the MgII Broad-line Region
Qian Yang, Yue Shen, Yu-Ching Chen +49
We present new Gemini/GMOS optical spectroscopy of 16 extreme variability quasars (EVQs) that dimmed by more than 1.5 mag in the band between the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS…