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most citedOverview of the Instrumentation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

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astro-ph.CO2023★ 343 cited

The Early Data Release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +266

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed its five-month Survey Validation in May 2021. Spectra of stellar and extragalactic targets from Survey Validation constitu…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

Validation of the Scientific Program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +261

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was designed to conduct a survey covering 14,000 deg over five years to constrain the cosmic expansion history through precise m…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 131 cited

A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole

Igor Andreoni, Michael W. Coughlin, Daniel A. Perley +78

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are bursts of electromagnetic energy released when supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galaxies violently disrupt a star that passes t…

astro-ph.HE2022

eRASSt J040515.6-745202, an X-ray burster in the Magellanic Bridge

F. Haberl, G. Vasilopoulos, C. Maitra +13

During the third all-sky survey (eRASS3), eROSITA, the soft X-ray instrument aboard Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma, detected a new hard X-ray transient, eRASSt J040515.6-745202, in the di…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 9 cited

XMM-Newton and SRG/eROSITA observations of the isolated neutron star candidate 4XMM J022141.5-735632

Adriana M. Pires, Christian Motch, Jan Kurpas +11

We report the results of follow-up investigations of a possible new thermally emitting isolated neutron star (INS), 4XMM J022141.5-735632, using observations from XMM-Newton and Sp…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 62 cited

The Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey 2 (DECaPS2): More Sky, Less Bias, and Better Uncertainties

A. K. Saydjari, E. F. Schlafly, D. Lang +10

Deep optical and near-infrared imaging of the entire Galactic plane is essential for understanding our Galaxy's stars, gas, and dust. The second data release of the DECam Plane Sur…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 465 cited

Overview of the Instrumentation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

B. Abareshi, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +264

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has embarked on an ambitious five-year survey to explore the nature of dark energy with spectroscopy of 40 million galaxies and quas…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 34 cited

The Circumstellar Environments of Double-Peaked, Calcium-strong Supernovae 2021gno and 2021inl

Wynn Jacobson-Galán, Padma Venkatraman, Raffaella Margutti +42

We present panchromatic observations and modeling of calcium-strong supernovae (SNe) 2021gno in the star-forming host galaxy NGC 4165 (D = 30.5 Mpc) and 2021inl in the outskirts of…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 67 cited

Hidden depths in the local Universe: The Stellar Stream Legacy Survey

David Martinez-Delgado, Andrew P. Cooper, Javier Roman +26

Mergers and tidal interactions between massive galaxies and their dwarf satellites are a fundamental prediction of the Lambda-Cold Dark Matter cosmology. These events are thought t…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

Correlations between H Equivalent Width and Galaxy Properties at : Physical or Selection-driven?

Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Sangeeta Malhotra, James E. Rhoads +13

The H equivalent width (EW) is an observational proxy for specific star formation rate (sSFR) and a tracer of episodic star-formation activity. Previous assessments show that EW…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 42 cited

The star formation history of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy

Margherita Bettinelli, Sebastián L. Hidalgo, Santi Cassisi +4

We present the star formation history (SFH) of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy based on deep g,r photometry taken with DECam at the Blanco telescope, focusing our analysis on…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 103 cited

Finding Strong Gravitational Lenses in the DESI DECam Legacy Survey

X. Huang, M. Domingo, A. Pilon +17

We perform a semi-automated search for strong gravitational lensing systems in the 9,000 deg Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS), part of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 13 cited

Complete IRAC mapping of the CFHTLS-DEEP, MUSYC AND NMBS-II FIELDS

Marianna Annunziatella, Danilo Marchesini, Mauro Stefanon +19

The IRAC mapping of the NMBS-II fields program is an imaging survey at 3.6 and 4.5m with the Spitzer Infrared Array Camera (IRAC). The observations cover three Canada-France-Haw…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 158 cited

The DECam Plane Survey: Optical photometry of two billion objects in the southern Galactic plane

E. F. Schlafly, G. M. Green, D. Lang +6

The DECam Plane Survey is a five-band optical and near-infrared survey of the southern Galactic plane with the Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo. The survey is designed to reach p…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 17 cited

The Canarias Einstein Ring: a Newly Discovered Optical Einstein Ring

Margherita Bettinelli, Matteo Simioni, Antonio Aparicio +5

We report the discovery of an optical Einstein Ring in the Sculptor constellation, IAC J010127-334319, in the vicinity of the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy. It is an almost comp…