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astro-ph.CO2015★ 31 cited

Observation and Confirmation of Six Strong Lensing Systems in The Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data

B. Nord, E. Buckley-Geer, H. Lin +89

We report the observation and confirmation of the first group- and cluster-scale strong gravitational lensing systems found in Dark Energy Survey (DES) data. Through visual inspect…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 61 cited

The SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: galaxies in the deep 850-micron survey, and the star-forming `main sequence'

M. Koprowski, J. S. Dunlop, M. J. Michalowski +14

We investigate the properties of the galaxies selected from the deepest 850-micron survey undertaken to date with SCUBA-2 on the JCMT. This deep 850-micron imaging was taken in par…

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★ 51 cited

SDSS-IV eBOSS emission-line galaxy pilot survey

J. Comparat, T. Delubac, S. Jouvel +83

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS-IV/eBOSS) will observe 195,000 emission-line galaxies (ELGs) to measure the Baryonic Acoust…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 11 cited

Cold Dust Emission from X-ray AGN in the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey: Dependence on Luminosity, Obscuration & AGN Activity

Manda Banerji, R. G. McMahon, C. J. Willott +15

We study the 850um emission in X-ray selected AGN in the 2 sq-deg COSMOS field using new data from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey. We find 19 850um bright X-ray AGN in a high-…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 47 cited

Discovery of two gravitationally lensed quasars in the Dark Energy Survey

Adriano Agnello, Tommaso Treu, Fernanda Ostrovski +77

We present spectroscopic confirmation of two new lensed quasars via data obtained at the 6.5m Magellan/Baade Telescope. The lens candidates have been selected from the Dark Energy…

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★ 65 cited

Mapping and simulating systematics due to spatially-varying observing conditions in DES Science Verification data

B. Leistedt, H. V. Peiris, F. Elsner +92

Spatially-varying depth and characteristics of observing conditions, such as seeing, airmass, or sky background, are major sources of systematic uncertainties in modern galaxy surv…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 208 cited

redMaGiC: Selecting Luminous Red Galaxies from the DES Science Verification Data

E. Rozo, E. S. Rykoff, A. Abate +84

We introduce redMaGiC, an automated algorithm for selecting Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs). The algorithm was specifically developed to minimize photometric redshift uncertainties in…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 97 cited

No galaxy left behind: accurate measurements with the faintest objects in the Dark Energy Survey

E. Suchyta, E. M. Huff, J. Aleksić +72

Accurate statistical measurement with large imaging surveys has traditionally required throwing away a sizable fraction of the data. This is because most measurements have have rel…

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.GA2015★ 107 cited

OzDES multi-fibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: first-year operation and results

Fang Yuan, C. Lidman, T. M. Davis +99

OzDES is a five-year, 100-night, spectroscopic survey on the Anglo-Australian Telescope, whose primary aim is to measure redshifts of approximately 2,500 Type Ia supernovae host ga…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 59 cited

Simulations of the OzDES AGN Reverberation Mapping Project

Anthea L. King, Paul Martini, Tamara M. Davis +11

As part of the OzDES spectroscopic survey we are carrying out a large scale reverberation mapping study of 500 quasars over five years in the 30 deg area of the Dark Ener…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 54 cited

Galaxies in X-ray Selected Clusters and Groups in Dark Energy Survey Data I: Stellar Mass Growth of Bright Central Galaxies Since z~1.2

Y. Zhang, C. Miller, T. Mckay +80

Using the science verification data of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) for a new sample of 106 X-Ray selected clusters and groups, we study the stellar mass growth of Bright Central G…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 155 cited

Automated Transient Identification in the Dark Energy Survey

D. A. Goldstein, C. B. D'Andrea, J. A. Fischer +64

We describe an algorithm for identifying point-source transients and moving objects on reference-subtracted optical images containing artifacts of processing and instrumentation. T…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 167 cited

The identification of z-dropouts in Pan-STARRS1: three quasars at 6.5<z<6.7

B. P. Venemans, E. Bañados, R. Decarli +30

Luminous distant quasars are unique probes of the high redshift intergalactic medium (IGM) and of the growth of massive galaxies and black holes in the early universe. Absorption d…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 64 cited

DES13S2cmm: The First Superluminous Supernova from the Dark Energy Survey

A. Papadopoulos, C. B. D'Andrea, M. Sullivan +66

We present DES13S2cmm, the first spectroscopically-confirmed superluminous supernova (SLSN) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We briefly discuss the data and search algorithm used…