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most citedDark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing

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astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

OzDES Reverberation Mapping of Active Galactic Nuclei: Final Data Release, Black-Hole Mass Results, & Scaling Relations

H. McDougall, T. M. Davis, Z. Yu +53

Over the last decade, the Australian Dark Energy (OzDES) collaboration has used Reverberation Mapping to measure the masses of high redshift supermassive black holes. Here we prese…

astro-ph.GA2025

OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: CIV lags from six years of data

A. Penton, H. McDougall, T. M. Davis +52

We present 29 successfully recovered CIV time lags in Active Galactic Nuclei from the complete Dark Energy Survey Reverberation Mapping campaign. The AGN in this sample span a reds…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellites Discovered in Carina, Phoenix, and Telescopium with DELVE Data Release 3

C. Y. Tan, W. Cerny, A. B. Pace +76

We report the discovery of three Milky Way satellite candidates: Carina IV, Phoenix III, and DELVE 7, in the third data release of the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE)…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Robust Measurement of Stellar Streams Around the Milky Way: Correcting Spatially Variable Observational Selection Effects in Optical Imaging Surveys

K. K. Boone, P. S. Ferguson, M. Tabbutt +47

Observations of density variations in stellar streams are a promising probe of low-mass dark matter substructure in the Milky Way. However, survey systematics such as variations in…

astro-ph.GA2025

A DECADE of dwarfs: first detection of weak lensing around spectroscopically confirmed low-mass galaxies

Chun-Hao To, Chihway Chang, Dhayaa Anbajagane +35

We present the first detection of weak gravitational lensing around spectroscopically confirmed dwarf galaxies, using the large overlap between DESI DR1 spectroscopic data and DECA…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

DELVE Milky Way Satellite Galaxy Census I: Satellite Population and Survey Selection Function in DES, DELVE, and Pan-STARRS

C. Y. Tan, A. Drlica-Wagner, A. B. Pace +84

The properties of Milky Way satellite galaxies have important implications for galaxy formation, reionization, and the fundamental physics of dark matter. However, the population o…

astro-ph.GA2025

Constraining the Stellar-to-Halo Mass Relation with Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing from DES Year 3 Data

G. Zacharegkas, C. Chang, J. Prat +100

We develop a framework to study the relation between the stellar mass of a galaxy and the total mass of its host dark matter halo using galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing…

astro-ph.GA2025

Discovering Strong Gravitational Lenses in the Dark Energy Survey with Interactive Machine Learning and Crowd-sourced Inspection with Space Warps

J. Gonzalez, P. Holloway, T. Collett +70

We conduct a search for strong gravitational lenses in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 6 imaging data. We implement a pre-trained Vision Transformer (ViT) for our machine learnin…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The Hierarchical Growth of Bright Central Galaxies and Intracluster Light as Traced by the Magnitude Gap

Jesse B. Golden-Marx, Y. Zhang, R. L. C. Ogando +48

Using a sample of 2800 galaxy clusters identified in the Dark Energy Survey across the redshift range , we characterize the hierarchical assembly of Bright Central…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Weak Gravitational Lensing around Low Surface Brightness Galaxies in the DES Year 3 Data

N. Chicoine, J. Prat, G. Zacharegkas +102

We present galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements using a sample of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) drawn from the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (Y3) data as lenses. LSBGs are diff…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: Stacking analysis with H, Mg II and C IV

Umang Malik, Rob Sharp, A. Penton +47

Reverberation mapping is the leading technique used to measure direct black hole masses outside of the local Universe. Additionally, reverberation measurements calibrate secondary…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Environmental Quenching of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies near Milky Way mass Hosts

J. Bhattacharyya, A. H. G. Peter, P. Martini +48

Low Surface Brightness Galaxies (LSBGs) are excellent probes of quenching and other environmental processes near massive galaxies. We study an extensive sample of LSBGs near massiv…

astro-ph.GA2023

Chemical Analysis of the Brightest Star of the Cetus II Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Candidate

K. B. Webber, T. T. Hansen, J. L. Marshall +42

We present a detailed chemical abundance analysis of the brightest star in the ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxy candidate Cetus II from high-resolution Magellan/MIKE spectra. For thi…

astro-ph.GA2023

Cosmological shocks around galaxy clusters: A coherent investigation with DES, SPT & ACT

D. Anbajagane, C. Chang, E. J. Baxter +111

We search for signatures of cosmological shocks in gas pressure profiles of galaxy clusters using the cluster catalogs from three surveys: the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3, the…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Intra-Cluster Light from Redshift 0.2 to 0.5

Yuanyuan Zhang, Jesse B. Golden-Marx, Ricardo L. C. Ogando +46

Using the full six years of imaging data from the Dark Energy Survey, we study the surface brightness profiles of galaxy cluster central galaxies and intra-cluster light. We apply…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 15 cited

A Sample of Dust Attenuation Laws for DES Supernova Host Galaxies

J. Duarte, S. González-Gaitán, A. Mourao +58

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are useful distance indicators in cosmology, provided their luminosity is standardized by applying empirical corrections based on light-curve properties…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 19 cited

Identification of Galaxy-Galaxy Strong Lens Candidates in the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey Using Machine Learning

E. A. Zaborowski, A. Drlica-Wagner, F. Ashmead +88

We perform a search for galaxy-galaxy strong lens systems using a convolutional neural network (CNN) applied to imaging data from the first public data release of the DECam Local V…

astro-ph.GA2022

OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: H lags from the 6-year survey

Umang Malik, Rob Sharp, A. Penton +64

Reverberation mapping measurements have been used to constrain the relationship between the size of the broad-line region and luminosity of active galactic nuclei (AGN). This …

astro-ph.GA2022★ 26 cited

Characterising the Intracluster Light over the Redshift Range in the DES-ACT Overlap

Jesse B. Golden-Marx, Y. Zhang, R. L. C. Ogando +66

We characterise the properties and evolution of Bright Central Galaxies (BCGs) and the surrounding intracluster light (ICL) in galaxy clusters identified in overlapping regions of…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 11 cited

Lessons Learned from the Two Largest Galaxy Morphological Classification Catalogues built by Convolutional Neural Networks

Ting-Yun Cheng, H. Domínguez Sánchez, J. Vega-Ferrero +54

We compare the two largest galaxy morphology catalogues, which separate early and late type galaxies at intermediate redshift. The two catalogues were built by applying supervised…

astro-ph.GA2022

OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: Mg II Lags and R-L relation

Zhefu Yu, Paul Martini, A. Penton +55

The correlation between the broad line region radius and continuum luminosity ( relation) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is critical for single-epoch mass estimates of superm…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 41 cited

A galaxy-driven model of type Ia supernova luminosity variations

P. Wiseman, M. Vincenzi, M. Sullivan +59

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are used as standardisable candles to measure cosmological distances, but differences remain in their corrected luminosities which display a magnitude s…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

The Evolution of AGN Activity in Brightest Cluster Galaxies

T. Somboonpanyakul, M. McDonald, A. Noble +73

We present the results of an analysis of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) observations on the full 2500 deg^2 South Pole Telescope (SPT)-SZ cluster sample. We describe a…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 75 cited

Optical Variability of Quasars with 20-Year Photometric Light Curves

Zachary Stone, Yue Shen, Colin J. Burke +52

We study the optical photometric variability of a sample of 190 quasars within the SDSS Stripe 82 region that have long-term photometric coverage during with…