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The contribution of the color space in LSST-like photometry for the selection of extragalactic globular cluster candidates
Nicholas Schweder-Souza, Ana L. Chies-Santos, Rafael S. de Souza +16
Globular clusters (GCs) are excellent tracers of their host galaxies' evolutionary histories. Traditional methods for identifying GCs in galaxies rely on cuts over photometric cata…
Timing the r-Process Enrichment of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II
Joshua D. Simon, Thomas M. Brown, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil +65
The ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Reticulum II (Ret II) exhibits a unique chemical evolution history, with 72 +10/-12% of its stars strongly enhanced in r-process elements. We present d…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
Dwarf AGNs from Optical Variability for the Origins of Seeds (DAVOS): Insights from the Dark Energy Survey Deep Fields
Colin J. Burke, Xin Liu, Yue Shen +69
We present a sample of 706, active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selected from optical photometric variability in three of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) deep fields (E2, C3, and…
From the Fire: A Deeper Look at the Phoenix Stream
K. Tavangar, P. Ferguson, N. Shipp +64
We use six years of data from the Dark Energy Survey to perform a detailed photometric characterization of the Phoenix stellar stream, a 15-degree long, thin, dynamically cold, low…
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…
Galaxy Morphological Classification Catalogue of the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 data with Convolutional Neural Networks
Ting-Yun Cheng, Christopher J. Conselice, Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca +57
We present in this paper one of the largest galaxy morphological classification catalogues to date, including over 20 million of galaxies, using the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3…
The Observed Evolution of the Stellar Mass - Halo Mass Relation for Brightest Central Galaxies
Jesse B. Golden-Marx, C. J. Miller, Y. Zhang +73
We quantify evolution in the cluster scale stellar mass - halo mass (SMHM) relation's parameters using 2323 clusters and brightest central galaxies (BCGs) over the redshift range $…
Rates and delay times of type Ia supernovae in the Dark Energy Survey
P. Wiseman, M. Sullivan, M. Smith +87
We use a sample of 809 photometrically classified type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) along with 40415 field galaxies to calculate the rate of SN…
OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: The first Mg II lags from five years of monitoring
Zhefu Yu, Paul Martini, A. Penton +63
Reverberation mapping is a robust method to measure the masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) outside of the local Universe. Measurements of the radius -- luminosity () r…
OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: Lag recovery reliability for 6-year CIV analysis
Andrew Penton, Umang Malik, Tamara Davis +66
We present the statistical methods that have been developed to analyse the OzDES reverberation mapping sample. To perform this statistical analysis we have created a suite of custo…
Pushing automated morphological classifications to their limits with the Dark Energy Survey
J. Vega-Ferrero, H. Domínguez Sánchez, M. Bernardi +60
We present morphological classifications of 27 million galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Data Release 1 (DR1) using a supervised deep learning algorithm. The classif…
A machine learning approach to galaxy properties: joint redshift-stellar mass probability distributions with Random Forest
S. Mucesh, W. G. Hartley, A. Palmese +72
We demonstrate that highly accurate joint redshift-stellar mass probability distribution functions (PDFs) can be obtained using the Random Forest (RF) machine learning (ML) algorit…
Identifying RR Lyrae Variable Stars in Six Years of the Dark Energy Survey
K. M. Stringer, A. Drlica-Wagner, L. Macri +67
We present a search for RR Lyrae stars using the full six-year data set from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) covering ~5,000 sq. deg. of the southern sky. Using a multi-stage multi-va…
Probing galaxy evolution in massive clusters using ACT and DES: splashback as a cosmic clock
Susmita Adhikari, Tae-hyeon Shin, Bhuvnesh Jain +113
We measure the projected number density profiles of galaxies and the splashback feature in clusters selected by the Sunyaev--Zeldovich (SZ) effect from the Advanced Atacama Cosmolo…
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…
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…
Shadows in the Dark: Low-Surface-Brightness Galaxies Discovered in the Dark Energy Survey
D. Tanoglidis, A. Drlica-Wagner, K. Wei +67
We present a catalog of 23,790 extended low-surface-brightness galaxies (LSBGs) identified in from the first three years of imaging data from the Dark Energy Survey…
The Diffuse Light Envelope of Luminous Red Galaxies
Y. Leung, Y. Zhang, B. Yanny +53
We use a stacking method to study the radial light profiles of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) at redshift and , out to a radial range of 200 kpc. We do not fin…
The Host Galaxies of Rapidly Evolving Transients in the Dark Energy Survey
P. Wiseman, M. Pursiainen, M. Childress +72
Rapidly evolving transients (RETs), also termed fast blue optical transients (FBOTs), are a distinct class of astrophysical event. They are characterised by lightcurves that declin…
A Deeper Look at DES Dwarf Galaxy Candidates: Grus I and Indus II
Sarah A. Cantu, Andrew B. Pace, Jennifer Marshall +11
We present deep - and -band Magellan/Megacam photometry of two dwarf galaxy candidates discovered in the Dark Energy Survey (DES), Grus I and Indus II (DES J2038-4609). For t…