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astro-ph.CO2025

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Photometric Data Set for Cosmology

K. Bechtol, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, A. Drlica-Wagner +103

We describe the photometric data set assembled from the full six years of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) in support of static-sky cosmology analyses. DES Y6 Gold is a…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 84 cited

Upper Bound of Neutrino Masses from Combined Cosmological Observations and Particle Physics Experiments

Arthur Loureiro, Andrei Cuceu, Filipe B. Abdalla +9

We investigate the impact of prior models on the upper bound of the sum of neutrino masses, . We use data from Large Scale Structure of galaxies, Cosmic Microwave Backgro…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 63 cited

DES meets Gaia: discovery of strongly lensed quasars from a multiplet search

A. Agnello, H. Lin, N. Kuropatkin +69

We report the discovery, spectroscopic confirmation and first lens models of the first two, strongly lensed quasars from a combined search in WISE and Gaia over the DES footprint.…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 1 cited

Galaxies in X-ray Selected Clusters and Groups in Dark Energy Survey Data II: Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling of the Red-Sequence Galaxy Luminosity Function

Y. Zhang, C. J. Miller, P. Rooney +77

Using X-ray selected clusters in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data, we constrain the luminosity function (LF) of cluster red sequence galaxies as a functi…

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★ 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★ 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★ 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.CO2016★ 22 cited

Optical-SZE Scaling Relations for DES Optically Selected Clusters within the SPT-SZ Survey

A. Saro, S. Bocquet, J. Mohr +68

We study the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) signature in South Pole Telescope (SPT) data for an ensemble of 719 optically identified galaxy clusters selected from 124.6 deg of…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 105 cited

Host Galaxy Identification for Supernova Surveys

Ravi R. Gupta, Steve Kuhlmann, Eve Kovacs +57

Host galaxy identification is a crucial step for modern supernova (SN) surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which will disco…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 124 cited

Detection of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with DES Year 1 and SPT

B. Soergel, S. Flender, K. T. Story +80

We detect the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect with a statistical significance of by combining a cluster catalogue derived from the first year data of the Dark Ene…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 27 cited

Galaxy bias from the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data: combining galaxy density maps and weak lensing maps

C. Chang, A. Pujol, E. Gaztanaga +80

We measure the redshift evolution of galaxy bias for a magnitude-limited galaxy sample by combining the galaxy density maps and weak lensing shear maps for a 116 deg ar…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 1k cited

The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy - an overview

Dark Energy Survey Collaboration, T. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla +138

This overview article describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the DES…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 4 cited

Photometric redshifts and clustering of emission line galaxies selected jointly by DES and eBOSS

S. Jouvel, T. Delubac, J. Comparat +65

We present the results of the first test plates of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. This paper focuses on the emission line galaxies (ELG) population targetted…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 151 cited

Redshift distributions of galaxies in the DES Science Verification shear catalogue and implications for weak lensing

C. Bonnett, M. A. Troxel, W. Hartley +104

We present photometric redshift estimates for galaxies used in the weak lensing analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification (DES SV) data. Four model- or machine learni…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 105 cited

Cosmic Shear Measurements with DES Science Verification Data

M. R. Becker, M. A. Troxel, N. MacCrann +102

We present measurements of weak gravitational lensing cosmic shear two-point statistics using Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data. We demonstrate that our results are robu…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 119 cited

CMB lensing tomography with the DES Science Verification galaxies

T. Giannantonio, P. Fosalba, R. Cawthon +101

We measure the cross-correlation between the galaxy density in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Science Verification data and the lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as re…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 93 cited

Galaxy clustering, photometric redshifts and diagnosis of systematics in the DES Science Verification data

M. Crocce, J. Carretero, A. H. Bauer +84

We study the clustering of galaxies detected at in the Science Verification observations of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Two-point correlation functions are measured usin…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 3 cited

Weak lensing by galaxy troughs in DES Science Verification data

D. Gruen, O. Friedrich, A. Amara +89

We measure the weak lensing shear around galaxy troughs, i.e. the radial alignment of background galaxies relative to underdensities in projections of the foreground galaxy field o…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 131 cited

Constraints on the Richness-Mass Relation and the Optical-SZE Positional Offset Distribution for SZE-Selected Clusters

A. Saro, S. Bocquet, E. Rozo +99

We cross-match galaxy cluster candidates selected via their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) signatures in 129.1 deg of the South Pole Telescope 2500d SPT-SZ survey with optical…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 47 cited

Wide-Field Lensing Mass Maps from DES Science Verification Data

C. Chang, V. Vikram, B. Jain +81

We present a mass map reconstructed from weak gravitational lensing shear measurements over 139 sq. deg from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Science Verification data. The mass map pr…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 14 cited

Wide-Field Lensing Mass Maps from DES Science Verification Data: Methodology and Detailed Analysis

V. Vikram, C. Chang, B. Jain +91

Weak gravitational lensing allows one to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the projected mass density across the sky. These "mass maps" provide a powerful tool for studying c…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 985 cited

A Joint Analysis of BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck Data

BICEP2/Keck, Planck Collaborations, : +276

We report the results of a joint analysis of data from BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck. BICEP2 and Keck Array have observed the same approximately 400 deg patch of sky centered on…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 305 cited

Planck 2013 results. XXX. Cosmic infrared background measurements and implications for star formation

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +238

We present new measurements of CIB anisotropies using Planck. Combining HFI data with IRAS, the angular auto- and cross frequency power spectrum is measured from 143 to 3000 GHz, a…