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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.GA2017★ 21 cited

DES15E2mlf: A Spectroscopically Confirmed Superluminous Supernova that Exploded 3.5 Gyr After the Big Bang

Y. -C. Pan, R. J. Foley, M. Smith +63

We present the Dark Energy Survey (DES) discovery of DES15E2mlf, the most distant superluminous supernova (SLSN) spectroscopically confirmed to date. The light curves and Gemini sp…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 28 cited

Models of the strongly lensed quasar DES J0408-5354

Adriano Agnello, Huan Lin, L. Buckley-Geer +82

We present gravitational lens models of the multiply imaged quasar DES J0408-5354, recently discovered in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) footprint, with the aim of interpreting its r…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 39 cited

Discovery of the Lensed Quasar System DES J0408-5354

H. Lin, E. Buckley-Geer, A. Agnello +78

We report the discovery and spectroscopic confirmation of the quad-like lensed quasar system DES J0408-5354 found in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 (Y1) data. This system was…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 27 cited

Environmental dependence of the galaxy stellar mass function in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data

J. Etherington, D. Thomas, C. Maraston +61

Measurements of the galaxy stellar mass function are crucial to understand the formation of galaxies in the Universe. In a hierarchical clustering paradigm it is plausible that the…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 129 cited

Eight new luminous z > 6 quasars selected via SED model fitting of VISTA, WISE and Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Observations

S. L. Reed, R. G. McMahon, P. Martini +60

We present the discovery and spectroscopic confirmation with the ESO NTT and Gemini South telescopes of eight new 6.0 < z < 6.5 quasars with z < 21.0. These quasars were pho…