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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…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 4 cited

Discovery of a z=0.65 Post-Starburst BAL Quasar in the DES Supernova Fields

Dale Mudd, Paul Martini, Suk Sien Tie +55

We present the discovery of a z=0.65 low-ionization broad absorption line (LoBAL) quasar in a post-starburst galaxy in data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and spectroscopy from…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 56 cited

Galaxy Populations in Massive Galaxy Clusters to z=1.1: Color Distribution, Concentration, Halo Occupation Number and Red Sequence Fraction

C. Hennig, J. J. Mohr, A. Zenteno +70

We study the galaxy populations in 74 Sunyaev Zeldovich Effect (SZE) selected clusters from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) survey that have been imaged in the science verification…