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

      Leistedt, Boris; Peiris, Hiranya V.; Elsner, Franz; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Amara, Adam; Bauer, Anne Hollister; Becker, Matthew R.; Bonnett, Christopher; Bruderer, Claudio; Busha, M. T.; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Chang, Chihway; Crocce, Martin; Costa, Luiz N. da; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Huff, Eric; Lahav, Ofer; Palmese, A.; Percival, Will J.; Refregier, Alexandre; Ross, A.J.; Rozo, Eduardo; Rykoff, Eli; Sánchez Alonso, Carles; Sadeh, Iftach; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Wechsler, Risa H.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Banerji, M.; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bernstein, Rebecca A.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Bridle, Sarah Louise; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Capozzi, Diego; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Doel, Peter; Eifler, Tim; Evrard, August E.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gerdes, David W.; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Honscheid, K.; James, David J.; Jarvis, Michael; Kent, Stephen M.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Li, T. S.; Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; March, Marisa Cristina; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Martini, Paul; Melchior, Peter M.; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Reil, Kevin; Romer, Anita K.; Roodman, Aaron; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Schubnell, Michael; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Tarle, Gregory; Thaler, Jon J.; Thomas, D.; Vikram, Vinu; Walker, Alistair; Wester, William Carl; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Zuntz, J. (2016) [Artigo de periódico]
      Spatially varying depth and the characteristics of observing conditions, such as seeing, airmass, or sky background, are major sources of systematic uncertainties in modern galaxy survey analyses, particularly in deep ...
    • Mass and galaxy distributions of four massive galaxy clusters from Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data 

      Melchior, Peter M.; Suchyta, Eric; Huff, Eric; Hirsch, Michael Stefan; Kacprzak, Tomasz; Rykoff, Eli; Gruen, Daniel; Armstrong, Robert; Bacon, David J.; Bechtol, Keith; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bridle, Sarah Louise; Clampitt, Joseph; Honscheid, K.; Jain, Bhuvnesh; Jouvel, Stéphanie; Krause, Elisabeth; Lin, H.; MacCrann, Niall; Patton, Kenneth; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Rowe, Barnaby T. P.; Vikram, Vinu; Wilcox, Harry George; Young, Julia Cheek; Zuntz, J.; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Banerji, M.; Bernstein, Joseph P.; Bernstein, Rebecca A.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Castander Serentill, Francisco Javier; Costa, Luiz N. da; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Doel, Peter; Estrada, Juan; Evrard, August E.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Fernandez, Enrique; Finley, David A.; Flaugher, Brenna; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Gerdes, David W.; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Jarvis, Michael; Karliner, Inga; Kent, Stephen M.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Makler, Martín; Marriner, John P.; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Merritt, K. Wyatt; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Mohr, Joseph J.; Neilsen, Eric H.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Reil, Kevin; Roe, Natalie A.; Roodman, Aaron; Sako, Masao; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Schindler, Rafe H.; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Sheldon, Erin; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Sypniewski, Adam J.; Tarle, Gregory; Thaler, Jon J.; Thomas, D.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Walker, Alistair; Wechsler, Risa H.; Weller, Jochen; Wester, William Carl (2015) [Artigo de periódico]
      We measure the weak lensing masses and galaxy distributions of four massive galaxy clusters observed during the Science Verification phase of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). This pathfinder study is meant to (1) validate the ...
    • redMaGiC : selecting luminous red galaxies from the DES Science Verification data 

      Rozo, Eduardo; Rykoff, Eli; Abate, Alexandra; Bonnet, Christopher Clive; Crocce, Martin; Davis, Christopher P.; Hoyle, Ben; Leistedt, Boris; Peiris, Hiranya V.; Wechsler, Risa H.; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Banerji, M.; Bauer, Anne Hollister; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Capozzi, Diego; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carollo, Daniela; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Castander Serentill, Francisco Javier; Childress, Michael; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Davis, Tamara M.; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Dietrich, Jörg P.; Doel, Peter; Eifler, Tim; Evrard, August E.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Gerdes, David W.; Glazebrook, Karl; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Honscheid, K.; James, David J.; Jarvis, Michael; Kim, A. G.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Lewis, Geraint F.; Lidman, Chris; Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; March, Marisa Cristina; Martini, Paul; Melchior, Peter M.; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Mohr, Joseph J.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; O'Neill, C. R.; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Romer, Anita K.; Roodman, Aaron; Sako, Masao; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Thaler, Jon J.; Thomas, D.; Uddin, Syed; Vikram, Vinu; Walker, Alistair; Wester, William Carl; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Costa, Luiz N. da (2016) [Artigo de periódico]
      We introduce redMaGiC, an automated algorithm for selecting luminous red galaxies (LRGs). The algorithm was specifically developed to minimize photometric redshift uncertainties in photometric large-scale structure studies. ...
    • Redshift distributions of galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification shear catalogue and implications for weak lensing 

      Bonnett, Christopher; Troxel, Michael; Hartley, William; Amara, Adam; Leistedt, Boris; Becker, Matthew R.; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bridle, Sarah Louise; Bruderer, Claudio; Busha, M. T.; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Childress, Michael; Castander Serentill, Francisco Javier; Chang, Chihway; Crocce, Martin; Davis, Tamara M.; Eifler, Tim; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gangkofner, C.; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Glazebrook, Karl; Gruen, Daniel; Kacprzak, Tomasz; King, Anthea L.; Kwan, Juliana; Lahav, Ofer; Lewis, Geraint F.; Lidman, Chris; Lin, H.; MacCrann, Niall; Miquel, Ramon; O'Neill, C. R.; Palmese, A.; Peiris, Hiranya V.; Refregier, Alexandre; Rozo, Eduardo; Rykoff, Eli; Sadeh, Iftach; Sánchez Alonso, Carles; Sheldon, Erin; Uddin, Syed; Wechsler, Risa H.; Zuntz, J.; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Armstrong, Robert; Banerji, M.; Bauer, Anne Hollister; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Capozzi, Diego; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Costa, Luiz N. da; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Dietrich, Jörg P.; Doel, Peter; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Fernandez, Enrique; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Gerdes, David W.; Gruendl, Robert A.; Honscheid, K.; Jain, Bhuvnesh; James, David J.; Jarvis, Michael; Kim, A. G.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Li, T. S.; Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; March, Marisa Cristina; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Martini, Paul; Melchior, Peter M.; Miller, Christopher J.; Neilsen, Eric H.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Reil, Kevin; Romer, Anita K.; Roodman, Aaron; Sako, Masao; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thaler, Jon J.; Thomas, D.; Vikram, Vinu; Walker, Alistair; DES Collaboration (2016) [Artigo de periódico]
      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 learning-based photometric redshift methods—ANNZ2, ...
    • Star/galaxy separation at faint magnitudes : application to a simulated Dark Energy Survey 

      Soumagnac, Maayane Tamar; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Lahav, Ofer; Kirk, Donnacha; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Bertin, Emmanuel; Rowe, Barnaby T. P.; Annis, James T.; Busha, M. T.; Costa, Luiz N. da; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Jarvis, Michael; Lin, H.; Percival, Will J.; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Sabiu, Cristiano Giovanni; Wechsler, Risa H.; Wolz, Laura; Yanny, Brian (2015) [Artigo de periódico]
      We address the problem of separating stars from galaxies in future large photometric surveys. We focus our analysis on simulations of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). In the first part of the paper, we derive the science ...