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most citedThe Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy - an overview

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108 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1) First study of red quasars selection

Euclid Collaboration, F. Tarsitano, S. Fotopoulou +322

Red quasars constitute an important but elusive phase in the evolution of supermassive black holes, where dust obscuration can significantly alter their observed properties. They h…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 22 cited

A disc wind model for blueshifts in quasar broad emission lines

James H. Matthews, Jago Strong-Wright, Christian Knigge +7

Blueshifts - or, more accurately, blue asymmetries - in broad emission lines such as CIV 1550 are common in luminous quasars and correlate with fundamental properties such as Ed…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

No redshift evolution in the rest-frame UV emission line properties of quasars from z=1.5 to z=4.0

Matthew Stepney, Manda Banerji, Paul C. Hewett +4

We analyse the rest-frame UV spectra of 2,531 high-redshift (3.5<z<4.0) quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR16Q catalogue. In combination with previous work, we study the r…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 19 cited

Multiwavelength observations of the extraordinary accretion event AT2021lwx

P. Wiseman, Y. Wang, S. Hönig +43

We present observations from X-ray to mid-infrared wavelengths of the most energetic non-quasar transient ever observed, AT2021lwx. Our data show a single optical brightening by a…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 49 cited

Testing AGN outflow and accretion models with CIV and HeII emission line demographics in z=2 quasars

Matthew J. Temple, James H. Matthews, Paul C. Hewett +6

Using 190,000 spectra from the seventeenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we investigate the ultraviolet emission line properties in z=2 quasars. Specifically, we qu…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 8 cited

A Fresh Look at AGN Spectral Energy Distribution Fitting with the XMM-SERVS AGN Sample

Adam Marshall, Matthew W. Auger-Williams, Manda Banerji +2

We perform spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting to 711 luminous X-ray AGN at 0.7 < z < 4.5 using 10-bands of optical and infra-red photometric data for objects within XMM-SER…

astro-ph.IM2022

Rubin-Euclid Derived Data Products: Initial Recommendations

Leanne P. Guy, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Etienne Bachelet +117

This report is the result of a joint discussion between the Rubin and Euclid scientific communities. The work presented in this report was focused on designing and recommending an…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 70 cited

Modelling type 1 quasar colours in the era of Rubin and Euclid

Matthew J. Temple, Paul C. Hewett, Manda Banerji

We construct a parametric SED model which is able to reproduce the average observed SDSS-UKIDSS-WISE quasar colours to within one tenth of a magnitude across a wide range of redshi…

astro-ph.GA2021

Multi-wavelength Optical and NIR Variability Analysis of the Blazar PKS 0027-426

E. Guise, S. F. Hönig, T. Almeyda +62

We present multi-wavelength spectral and temporal variability analysis of PKS 0027-426 using optical griz observations from DES (Dark Energy Survey) between 2013-2018 and VOILETTE…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 46 cited

The XMM-SERVS survey: XMM-Newton point-source catalogs for the W-CDF-S and ELAIS-S1 fields

Q. Ni, W. N. Brandt, C. -T. Chen +30

We present the X-ray point-source catalogs in two of the XMM-Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (XMM-SERVS) fields, W-CDF-S (4.6 deg) and ELAIS-S1 (3.2 deg)…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 18 cited

Resolving Disks & Mergers in Heavily Reddened Quasars and their Companion Galaxies with ALMA

Manda Banerji, Gareth C. Jones, Stefano Carniani +2

We present sub-arcsecond resolution ALMA imaging of the CO(3-2) emission in two heavily reddened quasars (HRQs) - ULASJ1234+0907 and ULASJ2315+0143 - and their companion…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 19 cited

Placing LOFAR-detected quasars in CIV emission space: implications for winds, jets and star formation

Amy L. Rankine, James H. Matthews, Paul C. Hewett +3

We present an investigation of the low-frequency radio and ultraviolet properties of a sample of 10,500 quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 14, observed…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 33 cited

Exploring the link between C IV outflow kinematics and sublimation-temperature dust in quasars

Matthew J. Temple, Manda Banerji, Paul C. Hewett +2

Using data from SDSS, UKIDSS and WISE, we investigate the properties of the high-frequency cutoff to the infrared emission in 5000 carefully selected luminous ($L_{bol} \si…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 319 cited

The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Adamow +132

We present the second public data release of the Dark Energy Survey, DES DR2, based on optical/near-infrared imaging by the Dark Energy Camera mounted on the 4-m Blanco telescope a…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 4 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Deep Field Optical + Near-Infrared Images and Catalogue

W. G. Hartley, A. Choi, A. Amon +115

We describe the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Deep Fields, a set of images and associated multi-wavelength catalogue () built from Dark Energy Camera (DECam) and Visible and…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 38 cited

Discovery of a Candidate Binary Supermassive Black Hole in a Periodic Quasar from Circumbinary Accretion Variability

Wei-Ting Liao, Yu-Ching Chen, Xin Liu +68

Binary supermassive black holes (BSBHs) are expected to be a generic byproduct from hierarchical galaxy formation. The final coalescence of BSBHs is thought to be the loudest gravi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 46 cited

Dust Reverberation Mapping in Distant Quasars from Optical and Mid-Infrared Imaging Surveys

Qian Yang, Yue Shen, Xin Liu +47

The size of the dust torus in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and their high-luminosity counterparts, quasars, can be inferred from the time delay between UV/optical accretion disk co…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 8 cited

A SCUBA-2 850m Survey of Heavily Reddened Quasars at z~2

Clare F. Wethers, Manda Banerji, Paul C. Hewett +1

We present new 850m SCUBA-2 observations for a sample of 19 heavily reddened Type-I quasars at redshifts 2 with dust extinctions of A mag. Three of…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 102 cited

BAL and non-BAL quasars: continuum, emission and absorption properties establish a common parent sample

Amy L. Rankine, Paul C. Hewett, Manda Banerji +1

Using a sample of 144,000 quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 14 we investigate the outflow properties, evident both in absorption and emission, of high-…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 31 cited

X-ray properties of z>6.5 quasars

Estelle Pons, Richard G. McMahon, Manda Banerji +1

We present XMM-Newton X-ray observations and analysis of three DES quasars (VDES J00203653 at , VDES J02445008 at and VDES J02244711 at $z=6.526…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 41 cited

X-ray Observations of Luminous Dusty Quasars at z > 2

G. B. Lansbury, M. Banerji, A. C. Fabian +1

We present new X-ray observations of luminous heavily dust-reddened quasars (HRQs) selected from infrared sky surveys. HRQs appear to be a dominant population at high redshifts and…

astro-ph.IM2019

Better support for collaborations preparing for large-scale projects: the case study of the LSST Science Collaborations Astro2020 APC White Paper

Federica B. Bianco, Manda Banerji, John Bochanski +17

Through the lens of the LSST Science Collaborations' experience, this paper advocates for new and improved ways to fund large, complex collaborations at the interface of data scien…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 43 cited

[OIII] Emission Line Properties in a New Sample of Heavily Reddened Quasars at

Matthew J. Temple, Manda Banerji, Paul C. Hewett +3

We present VLT-SINFONI near infra-red spectra of 26 new heavily reddened quasar candidates selected from the UKIDSS-LAS, VISTA VHS and VIKING imaging surveys. This new sample exten…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 45 cited

Kinematics of CIV and [OIII] emission in luminous high-redshift quasars

Liam Coatman, Paul C. Hewett, Manda Banerji +3

We characterise ionised gas outflows using a large sample of ~330 high-luminosity (45.5 < log(L_bol/erg s^-1) < 49.0), high-redshift (1.5 < z < 4.0) quasars via their [OIII]4960,50…