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Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Calibration of Lens Sample Redshift Distributions using Clustering Redshifts with BOSS/eBOSS
R. Cawthon, J. Elvin-Poole, A. Porredon +83
We present clustering redshift measurements for Dark Energy Survey (DES) lens sample galaxies to be used in weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering studies. To perform thi…
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…
Assessing tension metrics with Dark Energy Survey and Planck data
P. Lemos, M. Raveri, A. Campos +103
Quantifying tensions -- inconsistencies amongst measurements of cosmological parameters by different experiments -- has emerged as a crucial part of modern cosmological data analys…
Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Covariance Modelling and its Impact on Parameter Estimation and Quality of Fit
O. Friedrich, F. Andrade-Oliveira, H. Camacho +109
We describe and test the fiducial covariance matrix model for the combined 2-point function analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES-Y3) dataset. Using a variety of new ansat…
DES Y3 results: Blending shear and redshift biases in image simulations
N. MacCrann, M. R. Becker, J. McCullough +93
As the statistical power of galaxy weak lensing reaches percent level precision, large, realistic and robust simulations are required to calibrate observational systematics, especi…
Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Redshift Calibration of the Weak Lensing Source Galaxies
J. Myles, A. Alarcon, A. Amon +105
Determining the distribution of redshifts of galaxies observed by wide-field photometric experiments like the Dark Energy Survey is an essential component to mapping the matter den…
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…
Consistency of cosmic shear analyses in harmonic and real space
C. Doux, C. Chang, B. Jain +67
Recent cosmic shear studies have reported discrepancies of up to on the parameter between the analysis of shear power spectra and two-point…
Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Optimizing the Lens Sample in Combined Galaxy Clustering and Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing Analysis
A. Porredon, M. Crocce, P. Fosalba +77
We investigate potential gains in cosmological constraints from the combination of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing by optimizing the lens galaxy sample selection using…
Dark Energy Survey internal consistency tests of the joint cosmological probes analysis with posterior predictive distributions
C. Doux, E. Baxter, P. Lemos +85
Beyond-CDM physics or systematic errors may cause subsets of a cosmological data set to appear inconsistent when analyzed assuming CDM. We present an application of internal…
Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Weak Lensing Shape Catalogue
M. Gatti, E. Sheldon, A. Amon +100
We present and characterise the galaxy shape catalogue from the first 3 years of Dark Energy Survey (DES) observations, over an effective area of ~4143 deg of the southern sky.…
Reducing ground-based astrometric errors with Gaia and Gaussian processes
W. F. Fortino, G. M. Bernstein, P. H. Bernardinelli +64
Stochastic field distortions caused by atmospheric turbulence are a fundamental limitation to the astrometric accuracy of ground-based imaging. This distortion field is measurable…
DES Y1 results: Splitting growth and geometry to test CDM
J. Muir, E. Baxter, V. Miranda +100
We analyze Dark Energy Survey (DES) data to constrain a cosmological model where a subset of parameters -- focusing on -- are split into versions associated with structure gr…
Machine Learning for Searching the Dark Energy Survey for Trans-Neptunian Objects
B. Henghes, O. Lahav, D. W. Gerdes +56
In this paper we investigate how implementing machine learning could improve the efficiency of the search for Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) within Dark Energy Survey (DES) data wh…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Catalog of > 4000 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Clusters
M. Hilton, C. Sifón, S. Naess +146
We present a catalog of 4195 optically confirmed Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) selected galaxy clusters detected with signal-to-noise > 4 in 13,211 deg of sky surveyed by the Atacama…
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…
Perturbation theory for modeling galaxy bias: validation with simulations of the Dark Energy Survey
S. Pandey, E. Krause, B. Jain +52
We describe perturbation theory (PT) models of galaxy bias for applications to photometric galaxy surveys. We model the galaxy-galaxy and galaxy-matter correlation functions in con…
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…
The Effect of Environment on Type Ia Supernovae in the Dark Energy Survey Three-Year Cosmological Sample
L. Kelsey, M. Sullivan, M. Smith +73
Analyses of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have found puzzling correlations between their standardised luminosities and host galaxy properties: SNe Ia in high-mass, passive hosts appe…
The WaZP galaxy cluster sample of the Dark Energy Survey Year 1
M. Aguena, C. Benoist, L. N. da Costa +57
We present a new (2+1)D galaxy cluster finder based on photometric redshifts called Wavelet Z Photometric (WaZP) applied to DES first year (Y1A1) data. The results are compared to…
Milky Way Satellite Census. III. Constraints on Dark Matter Properties from Observations of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies
E. O. Nadler, A. Drlica-Wagner, K. Bechtol +65
We perform a comprehensive study of Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxies to constrain the fundamental properties of dark matter (DM). This analysis fully incorporates inhomogeneities…
Weak Lensing of Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey
E. Macaulay, D. Bacon, R. C. Nichol +69
We consider the effects of weak gravitational lensing on observations of 196 spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) from years 1 to 3 of the Dark Energy Survey (DE…