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most citedThe DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

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astro-ph.GA2016

A stellar over-density associated with the Small Magellanic Cloud

A. Pieres, B. X. Santiago, A. Drlica-Wagner +64

We report the discovery of a stellar over-density 8 north of the center of the Small Magellanic Cloud (Small Magellanic Cloud Northern Over-Density; SMCNOD) using data fr…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 28 cited

A Study of Quasar Selection in the Dark Energy Survey Supernova fields

S. S. Tie, P. Martini, D. Mudd +75

We present a study of quasar selection using the DES supernova fields. We used a quasar catalog from an overlapping portion of the SDSS Stripe 82 region to quantify the completenes…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 160 cited

Farthest Neighbor: The Distant Milky Way Satellite Eridanus II

T. S. Li, J. D. Simon, A. Drlica-Wagner +56

We present Magellan/IMACS spectroscopy of the recently-discovered Milky Way satellite Eridanus II (Eri II). We identify 28 member stars in Eri II, from which we measure a systemic…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 115 cited

Nearest Neighbor: The Low-Mass Milky Way Satellite Tucana III

J. D. Simon, T. S. Li, A. Drlica-Wagner +56

We present Magellan/IMACS spectroscopy of the recently discovered Milky Way satellite Tucana III (Tuc III). We identify 26 member stars in Tuc III, from which we measure a mean rad…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 2 cited

The Dark Energy Survey view of the Sagittarius stream: discovery of two faint stellar system candidates

E. Luque, A. Pieres, B. Santiago +63

We report the discovery of two new candidate stellar systems in the constellation of Cetus using the data from the first two years of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The objects, DES…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 76 cited

VDES J2325-5229 a z=2.7 gravitationally lensed quasar discovered using morphology independent supervised machine learning

Fernanda Ostrovski, Richard G. McMahon, Andrew J. Connolly +56

We present the discovery and preliminary characterization of a gravitationally lensed quasar with a source redshift and image separation of lensed by a foregrou…