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most citedThe Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

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astro-ph.IM2020★ 15 cited

Optical follow-up of gravitational wave triggers with DECam during the first two LIGO/VIRGO observing runs

K. Herner, J. Annis, D. Brout +82

Gravitational wave (GW) events detectable by LIGO and Virgo have several possible progenitors, including black hole mergers, neutron star mergers, black hole--neutron star mergers,…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 93 cited

First Cosmology Results Using Type Ia Supernovae From the Dark Energy Survey: Photometric Pipeline and Light Curve Data Release

D. Brout, M. Sako, D. Scolnic +89

We present griz light curves of 251 Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first 3 years of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program's (DES-SN) spectroscopically classified sample. T…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 38 cited

Star-galaxy classification in the Dark Energy Survey Y1 dataset

I. Sevilla-Noarbe, B. Hoyle, M. J. Marchã +75

We perform a comparison of different approaches to star-galaxy classification using the broad-band photometric data from Year 1 of the Dark Energy Survey. This is done by performin…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 231 cited

The Dark Energy Survey Image Processing Pipeline

E. Morganson, R. A. Gruendl, F. Menanteau +40

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a five-year optical imaging campaign with the goal of understanding the origin of cosmic acceleration. DES performs a 5000 square degree survey of t…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 76 cited

How Many Kilonovae Can Be Found in Past, Present, and Future Survey Datasets?

D. Scolnic, R. Kessler, D. Brout +83

The discovery of a kilonova (KN) associated with the Advanced LIGO (aLIGO)/Virgo event GW170817 opens up new avenues of multi-messenger astrophysics. Here, using realistic simulati…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 5 cited

DES Science Portal: Creating Science-Ready Catalogs

Angelo Fausti Neto, Luiz da Costa, Aurelio Carnero Rosell +55

We present a novel approach for creating science-ready catalogs through a software infrastructure developed for the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We integrate the data products release…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 107 cited

Forward Global Photometric Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey

D. Burke, E. S. Rykoff, S. Allam +56

Many scientific goals for the Dark Energy Survey (DES) require calibration of optical/NIR broadband photometry that is stable in time and uniform over the celestial sky…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 114 cited

COSMOGRAIL XVI: Time delays for the quadruply imaged quasar DES J0408-5354 with high-cadence photometric monitoring

F. Courbin, V. Bonvin, E. Buckley-Geer +74

We present time-delay measurements for the new quadruply imaged quasar DES J0408-5354, the first quadruply imaged quasar found in the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Our result is made p…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 66 cited

Astrometric calibration and performance of the Dark Energy Camera

G. M. Bernstein, R. Armstrong, A. A. Plazas +53

We characterize the ability of the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) to perform relative astrometry across its 500~Mpix, 3 deg^2 science field of view, and across 4 years of operation. Th…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 33 cited

Assessment of Systematic Chromatic Errors that Impact Sub-1% Photometric Precision in Large-Area Sky Surveys

T. S. Li, D. L. DePoy, J. L. Marshall +69

Meeting the science goals for many current and future ground-based optical large-area sky surveys requires that the calibrated broadband photometry is stable in time and uniform ov…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 208 cited

redMaGiC: Selecting Luminous Red Galaxies from the DES Science Verification Data

E. Rozo, E. S. Rykoff, A. Abate +84

We introduce redMaGiC, an automated algorithm for selecting Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs). The algorithm was specifically developed to minimize photometric redshift uncertainties in…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 189 cited

The DES Science Verification Weak Lensing Shear Catalogues

M. Jarvis, E. Sheldon, J. Zuntz +92

We present weak lensing shear catalogues for 139 square degrees of data taken during the Science Verification (SV) time for the new Dark Energy Camera (DECam) being used for the Da…

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…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 155 cited

Automated Transient Identification in the Dark Energy Survey

D. A. Goldstein, C. B. D'Andrea, J. A. Fischer +64

We describe an algorithm for identifying point-source transients and moving objects on reference-subtracted optical images containing artifacts of processing and instrumentation. T…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 1k cited

The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff, Carlos Allende Prieto +232

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been in operation since 2000 April. This paper presents the tenth public data release (DR10) from its current incarnation, SDSS-III. This da…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 1.5k cited

The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

III Collaboration, Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff +224

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS…