3.5k citations · 11.1k across the 70 of their papers we have counts for
39 papers · 1 filter
Observation and Confirmation of Nine Strong Lensing Systems in Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Data
B. Nord, E. Buckley-Geer, H. Lin +63
We describe the observation and confirmation of \nbconfirmtext\ new strong gravitational lenses discovered in Year 1 data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We created candidate li…
The Buzzard Flock: Dark Energy Survey Synthetic Sky Catalogs
Joseph DeRose, Risa H. Wechsler, Matthew R. Becker +52
We present a suite of 18 synthetic sky catalogs designed to support science analysis of galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) data. For each catalog, we use a computat…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Calibration of Cluster Mis-centering in the redMaPPer Catalogs
Y. Zhang, T. Jeltema, D. L. Hollowood +83
The center determination of a galaxy cluster from an optical cluster finding algorithm can be offset from theoretical prescriptions or -body definitions of its host halo center.…
A New RASS Galaxy Cluster Catalog with Low Contamination Extending to in the DES Overlap Region
Matthias Klein, Sebastian Grandis, Joseph Mohr +2
We present the MARD-Y3 catalog of between 1086 and 2171 galaxy clusters (52\% and 65\% new) produced using multi-component matched filter (MCMF) followup in 5000\,deg of DES-Y3…
More out of less: an excess integrated Sachs-Wolfe signal from supervoids mapped out by the Dark Energy Survey
A. Kovács, C. Sánchez, J. García-Bellido +68
The largest structures in the cosmic web probe the dynamical nature of dark energy through their integrated Sachs-Wolfe imprints. In the strength of the signal, typical cosmic void…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Constraints on Intrinsic Alignments and their Colour Dependence from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing
S. Samuroff, J. Blazek, M. A. Troxel +70
We perform a joint analysis of intrinsic alignments and cosmology using tomographic weak lensing, galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from Year 1 (Y1) of the D…
Measurement of the Splashback Feature around SZ-selected Galaxy Clusters with DES, SPT and ACT
T. Shin, S. Adhikari, E. J. Baxter +107
We present a detection of the splashback feature around galaxy clusters selected using their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signal. Recent measurements of the splashback feature around op…
First Cosmology Results using Type Ia Supernova from the Dark Energy Survey: Simulations to Correct Supernova Distance Biases
R. Kessler, D. Brout, C. B. D'Andrea +103
We describe catalog-level simulations of Type Ia supernova (SN~Ia) light curves in the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN), and in low-redshift samples from the Center fo…
Cosmological Constraints from Multiple Probes in the Dark Energy Survey
DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, A. Alarcon +166
The combination of multiple observational probes has long been advocated as a powerful technique to constrain cosmological parameters, in particular dark energy. The Dark Energy Su…
First Cosmology Results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Constraints on Cosmological Parameters
T. M. C. Abbott, S. Allam, P. Andersen +141
We present the first cosmological parameter constraints using measurements of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN). The analysis uses…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Methods for Cluster Cosmology and Application to the SDSS
M. Costanzi, E. Rozo, M. Simet +83
We perform the first blind analysis of cluster abundance data. Specifically, we derive cosmological constraints from the abundance and weak-lensing signal of \redmapper\ clusters o…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cross-correlation between DES Y1 galaxy weak lensing and SPT+Planck CMB weak lensing
Y. Omori, E. Baxter, C. Chang +137
We cross-correlate galaxy weak lensing measurements from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) year-one (Y1) data with a cosmic microwave background (CMB) weak lensing map derived from Sout…
Measuring Linear and Non-linear Galaxy Bias Using Counts-in-Cells in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data
A. I. Salvador, F. J. Sánchez, A. Pagul +52
Non-linear bias measurements require a great level of control of potential systematic effects in galaxy redshift surveys. Our goal is to demonstrate the viability of using Counts-i…
On the relative bias of void tracers in the Dark Energy Survey
G. Pollina, N. Hamaus, K. Paech +61
Luminous tracers of large-scale structure are not entirely representative of the distribution of mass in our Universe. As they arise from the highest peaks in the matter density fi…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Weak Lensing Mass Calibration of redMaPPer Galaxy Clusters
T. McClintock, T. N. Varga, D. Gruen +99
We constrain the mass--richness scaling relation of redMaPPer galaxy clusters identified in the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 data using weak gravitational lensing. We split clusters i…
Survey geometry and the internal consistency of recent cosmic shear measurements
M. A. Troxel, E. Krause, C. Chang +76
We explore the impact of an update to the typical approximation for the shape noise term in the analytic covariance matrix for cosmic shear experiments that assumes the absence of…
Weak Lensing Analysis of SPT selected Galaxy Clusters using Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data
C. Stern, J. P. Dietrich, S. Bocquet +70
We present weak lensing (WL) mass constraints for a sample of massive galaxy clusters detected by the South Pole Telescope (SPT) via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (SZE). We use $gri…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: galaxy mock catalogues for BAO
S. Avila, M. Crocce, A. J. Ross +51
Mock catalogues are a crucial tool in the analysis of galaxy surveys data, both for the accurate computation of covariance matrices, and for the optimisation of analysis methodolog…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Galaxy Sample for BAO Measurement
M. Crocce, A. J. Ross, I. Sevilla-Noarbe +84
We define and characterise a sample of 1.3 million galaxies extracted from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data, optimised to measure Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the prese…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scale in the distribution of galaxies to redshift 1
The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla +109
We present angular diameter distance measurements obtained by locating the BAO scale in the distribution of galaxies selected from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data. We con…
Baryon Content in a Sample of 91 Galaxy Clusters Selected by the South Pole Telescope at 0.2 < z < 1.25
I. Chiu, J. J. Mohr, M. McDonald +89
We estimate total mass (), intracluster medium (ICM) mass () and stellar mass () in a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) selected sample of 91 ga…
Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cross-Correlation Redshifts in the DES -- Calibration of the Weak Lensing Source Redshift Distributions
C. Davis, M. Gatti, P. Vielzeuf +81
We present the calibration of the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) weak lensing source galaxy redshift distributions from clustering measurements. By cross-correlating the positi…
The Splashback Feature around DES Galaxy Clusters: Galaxy Density and Weak Lensing Profiles
C. Chang, E. Baxter, B. Jain +82
Splashback refers to the process of matter that is accreting onto a dark matter halo reaching its first orbital apocenter and turning around in its orbit. The cluster-centric radiu…
Density split statistics: joint model of counts and lensing in cells
O. Friedrich, D. Gruen, J. DeRose +71
We present density split statistics, a framework that studies lensing and counts-in-cells as a function of foreground galaxy density, thereby providing a large-scale measurement of…