activity
19962023
most citedOverview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

1.9k citations · 26.9k across the 284 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators
Showing 2015Show all

29 papers · 1 filter

astro-ph.CO2015★ 31 cited

Observation and Confirmation of Six Strong Lensing Systems in The Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data

B. Nord, E. Buckley-Geer, H. Lin +89

We report the observation and confirmation of the first group- and cluster-scale strong gravitational lensing systems found in Dark Energy Survey (DES) data. Through visual inspect…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 29 cited

Physical properties of star clusters in the outer LMC as observed by the Dark Energy Survey

A. Pieres, B. Santiago, E. Balbinot +57

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) harbors a rich and diverse system of star clusters, whose ages, chemical abundances, and positions provide information about the LMC history of sta…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 15 cited

Crowdsourcing quality control for Dark Energy Survey images

P. Melchior, E. Sheldon, A. Drlica-Wagner +47

We have developed a crowdsourcing web application for image quality control employed by the Dark Energy Survey. Dubbed the "DES exposure checker", it renders science-grade images d…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 42 cited

Variable stars in the field of the Hydra II ultra-faint dwarf galaxy

A. Katherina Vivas, Knut Olsen, Robert Blum +12

We report the discovery of one RR Lyrae star in the ultra--faint satellite galaxy Hydra II based on time series photometry in the g, r and i bands obtained with the Dark Energy Cam…

astro-ph.SR2015

The Carina Project IX: on Hydrogen and helium burning variables

G. Coppola, M. Marconi, P. B. Stetson +14

We present new multi-band (UBVI) time-series data of helium burning variables in the Carina dwarf spheroidal galaxy. The current sample includes 92 RR Lyrae-six of them are new ide…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 51 cited

SDSS-IV eBOSS emission-line galaxy pilot survey

J. Comparat, T. Delubac, S. Jouvel +83

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS-IV/eBOSS) will observe 195,000 emission-line galaxies (ELGs) to measure the Baryonic Acoust…