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astro-ph.CO2017★ 43 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 36 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 190 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 92 cited

Quasar Accretion Disk Sizes From Continuum Reverberation Mapping From the Dark Energy Survey

D. Mudd, P. Martini, Y. Zu +69

We present accretion disk size measurements for 15 luminous quasars at derived from light curves from the Dark Energy Survey. We measure the disk sizes…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 114 cited

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…

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.CO2017★ 41 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 99 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 98 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 101 cited

OzDES multifibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: Three year results and first data release

M. J. Childress, C. Lidman, T. M. Davis +98

We present results for the first three years of OzDES, a six-year programme to obtain redshifts for objects in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) supernova fields using the 2dF fibre pos…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 49 cited

Chemical Abundance Analysis of Three -Poor, Metal-Poor Stars in the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Horologium I

D. Q. Nagasawa, J. L. Marshall, J. D. Simon +68

We present chemical abundance measurements of three stars in the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Horologium I, a Milky Way satellite discovered by the Dark Energy Survey. Using high resol…

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.CO2017★ 661 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Cosmic Shear

M. A. Troxel, N. MacCrann, J. Zuntz +132

We use 26 million galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 shape catalogs over 1321 deg of the sky to produce the most significant measurement of cosmic shear in a gal…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 116 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing

J. Prat, C. Sánchez, Y. Fang +112

We present galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from 1321 sq. deg. of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 (Y1) data. The lens sample consists of a selection of 660,000 red galaxies w…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 152 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Galaxy clustering for combined probes

J. Elvin-Poole, M. Crocce, A. J. Ross +123

We measure the clustering of DES Year 1 galaxies that are intended to be combined with weak lensing samples in order to produce precise cosmological constraints from the joint anal…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 203 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Redshift distributions of the weak lensing source galaxies

B. Hoyle, D. Gruen, G. M. Bernstein +135

We describe the derivation and validation of redshift distribution estimates and their uncertainties for the galaxies used as weak lensing sources in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 2 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Photometric Data Set for Cosmology

A. Drlica-Wagner, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, E. S. Rykoff +86

We describe the creation, content, and validation of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) internal year-one cosmology data set, Y1A1 GOLD, in support of upcoming cosmological analyses. The…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 50 cited

A Measurement of CMB Cluster Lensing with SPT and DES Year 1 Data

E. J. Baxter, S. Raghunathan, T. M. Crawford +118

Clusters of galaxies gravitationally lens the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, resulting in a distinct imprint in the CMB on arcminute scales. Measurement of this effec…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 6 cited

Evolution of Galaxy Luminosity and Stellar-Mass Functions since with the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data

D. Capozzi, J. Etherington, D. Thomas +60

We present the first study of the evolution of the galaxy luminosity and stellar-mass functions (GLF and GSMF) carried out by the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We describe the COMMODOR…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 35 cited

Cross-Correlation Redshift Calibration Without Spectroscopic Calibration Samples in DES Science Verification Data

C. Davis, E. Rozo, A. Roodman +74

Galaxy cross-correlations with high-fidelity redshift samples hold the potential to precisely calibrate systematic photometric redshift uncertainties arising from the unavailabilit…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 129 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Multi-Probe Methodology and Simulated Likelihood Analyses

E. Krause, T. F. Eifler, J. Zuntz +83

We present the methodology for and detail the implementation of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) 3x2pt DES Year 1 (Y1) analysis, which combines configuration-space two-point statistics…

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★ 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.CO2017★ 27 cited

Core or cusps: The central dark matter profile of a redshift one strong lensing cluster with a bright central image

Thomas E. Collett, Elizabeth Buckley-Geer, Huan Lin +58

We report on SPT-CLJ2011-5228, a giant system of arcs created by a cluster at . The arc system is notable for the presence of a bright central image. The source is a Lyman…