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astro-ph.HE2020★ 60 cited

Candidate Periodically Variable Quasars from the Dark Energy Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Yu-Ching Chen, Xin Liu, Wei-Ting Liao +62

Periodically variable quasars have been suggested as close binary supermassive black holes. We present a systematic search for periodic light curves in 625 spectroscopically confir…

astro-ph.HE2020

A DESGW Search for the Electromagnetic Counterpart to the LIGO/Virgo Gravitational Wave Binary Neutron Star Merger Candidate S190510g

DES Collaboration, A. Garcia, R. Morgan +87

We present the results from a search for the electromagnetic counterpart of the LIGO/Virgo event S190510g using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam). S190510g is a binary neutron star (B…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 44 cited

Constraints on the Physical Properties of GW190814 through Simulations based on DECam Follow-up Observations by the Dark Energy Survey

R. Morgan, M. Soares-Santos, J. Annis +99

On 14 August 2019, the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations detected gravitational waves from a black hole and a 2.6 solar mass compact object, possibly the first neutron star -- black ho…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 31 cited

Studying Type II supernovae as cosmological standard candles using the Dark Energy Survey

T. de Jaeger, L. Galbany, S. González-Gaitán +85

Despite vast improvements in the measurement of the cosmological parameters, the nature of dark energy and an accurate value of the Hubble constant (H) in the Hubble-Lemaître l…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 7 cited

The Mystery of Photometric Twins DES17X1boj and DES16E2bjy

M. Pursiainen, C. Gutierrez, P. Wiseman +80

We present an analysis of DES17X1boj and DES16E2bjy, two peculiar transients discovered by the Dark Energy Survey (DES). They exhibit nearly identical double-peaked light curves wh…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 15 cited

A DECam Search for Explosive Optical Transients Associated with IceCube Neutrinos

R. Morgan, K. Bechtol, R. Kessler +65

In this work, we investigate the likelihood of association between realtime, TeV-PeV energy neutrino alerts from IceCube and optical counterparts in the form of core-collapse super…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 105 cited

Superluminous Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey

C. R. Angus, M. Smith, M. Sullivan +72

We present a sample of 21 hydrogen-free superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I), and one hydrogen-rich SLSN (SLSN-II) detected during the five-year Dark Energy Survey (DES). These SNe,…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 21 cited

A Search for Optical Emission from Binary-Black-Hole Merger GW170814 with the Dark Energy Camera

Z. Doctor, R. Kessler, K. Herner +96

Binary black hole (BBH) mergers found by the LIGO and Virgo detectors are of immense scientific interest to the astrophysics community, but are considered unlikely to be sources of…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 162 cited

Rapidly evolving transients in the Dark Energy Survey

M. Pursiainen, M. Childress, M. Smith +79

We present the results of a search for rapidly evolving transients in the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Programme. These events are characterized by fast light curve evolution (rise…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 41 cited

Studying the Ultraviolet Spectrum of the First Spectroscopically Confirmed Supernova at redshift two

M. Smith, M. Sullivan, R. C. Nichol +87

We present observations of DES16C2nm, the first spectroscopically confirmed hydrogen-free superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) at redshift z~2. DES16C2nm was discovered by the Dark Ene…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 72 cited

Evidence for Dynamically Driven Formation of the GW170817 Neutron Star Binary in NGC 4993

A. Palmese, W. Hartley, F. Tarsitano +89

We present a study of NGC 4993, the host galaxy of the GW170817 gravitational wave event, the GRB170817A short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) and the AT2017gfo kilonova. We use Dark Energy…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 1k cited

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-IR Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models

P. S. Cowperthwaite, E. Berger, V. A. Villar +141

We present UV, optical, and NIR photometry of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave source from Advanced LIGO/Virgo, the binary neutron star merger GW170817…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 584 cited

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Dark Energy Camera Discovery of the Optical Counterpart

M. Soares-Santos, D. E. Holz, J. Annis +142

We present the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) discovery of the optical counterpart of the first binary neutron star merger detected through gravitational wave emission, GW170817. Our o…

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.HE2016★ 47 cited

The Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei in Clusters of Galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey

E. Bufanda, D. Hollowood, T. E. Jeltema +53

The correlation between active galactic nuclei (AGN) and environment provides important clues to AGN fueling and the relationship of black hole growth to galaxy evolution. In this…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 27 cited

A Dark Energy Camera Search for Missing Supergiants in the LMC After the Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW150914

J. Annis, M. Soares-Santos, E. Berger +104

The collapse of the core of a star is expected to produce gravitational radiation. While this process will usually produce a luminous supernova, the optical signatue could be sublu…

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.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.HE2015★ 64 cited

DES13S2cmm: The First Superluminous Supernova from the Dark Energy Survey

A. Papadopoulos, C. B. D'Andrea, M. Sullivan +66

We present DES13S2cmm, the first spectroscopically-confirmed superluminous supernova (SLSN) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We briefly discuss the data and search algorithm used…