• Eight new Milky Way companions discovered in first-year Dark Energy Survey data 

      Bechtol, Keith; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Balbinot, Eduardo; Pieres, Adriano; Simon, Josh D.; Yanny, Brian; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Wechsler, Risa H.; Frieman, Joshua A.; Walker, Alistair; Williams, P.; Rozo, Eduardo; Rykoff, Eli; Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade; Luque Canaza, Elmer Fidel; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Tucker, Douglas L.; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Gruendl, Robert A.; Costa, Luiz N. da; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Allam, Sahar S.; Armstrong, Robert; Bauer, Anne Hollister; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bernstein, Rebecca A.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Castander Serentill, Francisco Javier; Covarrubias, Ricardo A.; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Eifler, Tim; Estrada, Juan; Evrard, August E.; Fernandez, Enrique; Finley, David A.; Flaugher, Brenna; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Gerdes, David W.; Girardi, Leo Alberto; Gladders, Michael David; Gruen, Daniel; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Hao, Jiangang; Honscheid, K.; Jain, Bhuvnesh; James, David J.; Kent, Stephen M.; Kron, Richard G.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Li, T. S.; Lin, H.; Makler, Martín; March, Marisa Cristina; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Martini, Paul; Merritt, K. Wyatt; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Mohr, Joseph J.; Neilsen, Eric H.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Peoples, John; Petravick, Donald L.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Romer, Anita K.; Roodman, Aaron; Sako, Masao; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Schubnell, Michael; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thaler, Jon J.; Thomas, D.; Wester, William Carl; Zuntz, J.; DES Collaboration (2015) [Artigo de periódico]
      We report the discovery of eight new Milky Way companions in ~1800 deg2 of optical imaging data collected during the first year of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Each system is identified as a statistically significant ...
    • SDSS-III : massive spectroscopic surveys of the distant universe, the Milk Way, and extra-solar planetary systems 

      Eisenstein, Daniel, J.; Weinberg, D.H.; Agol, Eric; Aihara, H.; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Anderson, S.F.; Arns, James A.; Aubourg, Éric; Bailey, Stephen; Balbinot, Eduardo; Barkhouser, Robert; Beers, T.C.; Berlind, Andreas A.; Bickerton, S.J.; Bizyaev, D.; Blanton, M.R.; Bochanski, J.J.; Bolton, Adam S.; Bosman, Casey T.; Bovy, Jo; Brandt, W.N.; Breslauer, Ben; Brewington, Howard J.; Brinkmann, Jon; Brown, Peter J.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Burger, Dan; Busca, Nicolas G.; Campbell, Heather; Cargile, Phillip A.; Carithers, William C.; Carlberg, J.K.; Carr, M.A.; Chang, Liang; Chen, Yanmei; Chiappini, C.C.M.; Comparat, Johan; Connolly, Natalia; Cortes, Marina; Croft, Rupert A.C.; Cunha, Katia; Costa, Luiz N. da; Davenport, J.R.A.; Dawson, K.S.; De Lee, Nathan M.; Mello, Gustavo Frederico Porto de; De Simoni, Fernando S.; Dean, Janice; Dhital, S.; Ealet, Anne; Ebelke, Garrett L.; Edmondson, E.M.; Eiting, J.M.; Escoffier, Stephanie; Esposito, Massimiliano; Evans, M.L.; Fan, Xiaohui; Femenía Castellá, B.; Ferreira, Letícia D.; Fitzgerald, Greg; Fleming, S.W.; Font-Ribera, A.; Ford, Eric B.; Frinchaboy, P.M.; García Pérez, Ana Elia; Gaudi, B. S.; Ge, Jian; Ghezzi, Luan; Gillespie, Bruce A.; Gilmore, Gerry; Girardi, Leo Alberto; Gott, J. Richard; Gould, Andrew; Grebel, Eva K.; Gunn, James E.; Hamilton, J.C.; Harding, Paul; Harris, D.W.; Hawley, Suzanne L.; Hearty, Frederick R.; Hennawi, J.F.; González Hernández, Jonay I.; Ho, Shirley; Hogg, D.W.; Holtzman, J.A.; Honscheid, K.; Inada, Naohisa; Ivans, Inese I.; Jiang, L.; Jiang, Peng; Johnson, J.A.; Jordan, Cathy; Jordan, W.P.; Kauffmann, Guinevere; Kazin, Eyal A.; Kirkby, David; Klaene, Mark A.; Knapp, G. R.; Kneib, J.P.; Kochanek, C.S.; Koesterke, L.; Kollmeier, Juna A.; Kron, Richard G.; Lampeitl, Hubert; Lang, Dustin; Lawler, J.E.; Le Goff, Jean-Marc; Lee, B.L.; Lee, Y.S.; Leisenring, J.M.; Lin, Y.-T.; Liu, Jian; Long, Daniel C.; Loomis, Craig P.; Lucatello, Sara; Lundgren, B.; Lupton, R.H.; Ma, Bo; Ma, Zhibo; Macdonald, Nicholas; Mack, C. E.; Mahadevan, Suvrath; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Majewski, Steven Raymond; Makler, Martín; Malanushenko, E.; Malanushenko, V.; Mandelbaum, Rachel; Maraston, Claudia; Margala, D.; Maseman, P.A.; Masters, K.L.; McBride, Cameron K.; McDonald, Patrick; McGreer, Ian D.; McMahon, Richard G.; Mena Requejo, Olga; Ménard, Brice; Miralda-Escudé, J.; Morrison, H.L.; Mullally, Fergal; Muna, Demitri; Murayama, H.; Myers, A.D.; Naugle, Tracy; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Nguyen, D.C.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nidever, D.L.; O'Connell, Robert West; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Olmstead, Matthew D.; Oravetz, Daniel J.; Padmanabhan, N.; Paegert, Martin; Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie; Pan, K.; Pandey, Parul; Parejko, J.K.; Pâris, Isabelle; Pellegrini, Paulo Sérgio de Souza; Pepper, J.; Percival, Will J.; Petitjean, P.; Pfaffenberger, Robert; Pforr, J.; Phleps, Stefanie; Pichon, C,; Pieri, Matthew M.; Prada, F.; Price-Whelan, Adrian M.; Raddick, M. Jordan; Ramos, Beatriz H.F.; Reid, I. Neill; Reylé, Céline; Rich, J.; Richards, G.T.; Rieke, G.H.; Rieke, M.J.; Rix, H.-W.; Robin, A.C.; Rocha-Pinto, H.J.; Rockosi, C.M.; Roe, Natalie A.; Rollinde, Emmanuel; Ross, A.J.; Ross, Nicholas P.; Rossetto, Bruno M.; Sánchez, Ariel G.; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Sayres, Conor; Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Schlegel, David J.; Schlesinger, K.J.; Schmidt, Sarah. J.; Schneider, D.P.; Sellgren, K.; Bradley, Alaina C. Shelden; Sheldon, Erin; Shetrone, M.; Shu, Yiping; Silverman, J.D.; Simmerer, Jennifer; Simmons, Audrey E.; Sivarani, Thirupathi; Skrutskie, M.F.; Slosar, A.; Smee, Stephen; Smith, Verne V.; Snedden, S.A.; Stassun, Keivan G.; Steele, Oliver; Steinmetz, M.; Stockett, Mark H.; Stollberg, Todd; Strauss, Michael A.; Szalay, A.S.; Tanaka, M.; Thakar, Aniruddha; Thomas, D.; Tinker, Jeremy; Tofflemire, Benjamin M.; Tojeiro, R.; Tremonti, Christy A.; Vargas Magaña, Mariana; Verde, Licia; Vogt, N.P.; Wake, D.A.; Wan, Xiaoke; Wang, Ji; Weaver, Benjamin A.; White, M.; White, Simon D. M.; Wilson, J.C.; Wisniewski, J.P.; Wood-Vasey, W.M.; Yanny, Brian; Yasuda, Naoki; Yèche, Christophe; York, Donald G.; Young, E.; Zasowski, G.; Zehavi, I.; Zhao, Bo (2011) [Artigo de periódico]
      Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of ...
    • Search for gamma-ray emission from DES dwarf spheroidal galaxy candidates with Fermi-LAT data 

      Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Albert, Andrea; Bechtol, Keith; Wood, Matthew Dunseth; Strigari, Louis E.; Sánchez-Conde, Miguel A.; Baldini, Luca; Essig, Rouven; Cohen-Tanugi, Johann; Anderson, Brandon; Bellazzini, Ronaldo; Bloom, Elliott D.; Caputo, Regina; Cecchi, Claudia; Charles, Eric Andre; Chiang, James; De Angelis, Alessandro; Funk, Stefan; Fusco, Piergiorgio; Gargano, Fabio; Giglietto, Nico; Giordano, Francesco; Guiriec, Sylvain; Gustafsson, Michael; Kuss, Michael; Loparco, Francesco; Lubrano, Pasquale; Mirabal, N.; Mizuno, Tsunefumi; Morselli, Aldo; Ohsugi, Takashi; Orlando, Elena; Persic, Massimo; Raino, Silvia; Spada, Francesca Romana; Suson, Daniel J.; Zaharijas, Gabrijela; Zimmer, Stephan; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Allam, Sahar S.; Balbinot, Eduardo; Bauer, Anne Hollister; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bernstein, Rebecca A.; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Castander Serentill, Francisco Javier; Covarrubias, Ricardo A.; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Costa, Luiz N. da; DePoy, Darren L.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; Eifler, Tim; Estrada, Juan; Evrard, August E.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Fernandez, Enrique; Finley, David A.; Flaugher, Brenna; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Gerdes, David W.; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Honscheid, K.; Jain, Bhuvnesh; James, David J.; Jeltema, Tesla E.; Kent, Stephen M.; Kron, Richard G.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Li, T. S.; Luque Canaza, Elmer Fidel; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Makler, Martín; March, Marisa Cristina; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Martini, Paul; Merritt, K. Wyatt; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Mohr, Joseph J.; Neilsen, Eric H.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Peoples, John; Petravick, Donald L.; Pieres, Adriano; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade; Romer, Anita K.; Roodman, Aaron; Rykoff, Eli; Sako, Masao; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thaler, Jon J.; Thomas, D.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Walker, Alistair; Wechsler, Risa H.; Wester, William Carl; Williams, P.; Yanny, Brian; Zuntz, J.; Fermi LAT Collaboration; DES Collaboration (2015) [Artigo de periódico]
      Due to their proximity, high dark-matter (DM) content, and apparent absence of non-thermal processes, Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) are excellent targets for the indirect detection of DM. Recently, ...
    • The Dark Energy Survey : more than dark energy – an overview 

      Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Aleksíc, Jelena; Allam, Sahar S.; Amara, Adam; Bacon, David J.; Balbinot, Eduardo; Banerji, M.; Bechtol, Keith; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Blazek, Jonathan A.; Bonnett, Christopher; Bridle, Sarah Louise; Brooks, D.; Brunner, Robert J.; Buckley-Geer, E.; Burke, David Lyle; Caminha, Gabriel Bartosch; Capozzi, Diego; Carlsen, J.; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carollo, Marcella; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Castander Serentill, Francisco Javier; Clerkin, L.; Collett, Thomas E.; Conselice, Christopher J.; Crocce, Martin; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Costa, Luiz N. da; Davis, Tamara M.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Dietrich, Jörg P.; Dodelson, Scott; Doel, Peter; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Estrada, Juan; Etherington, James; Evrard, August E.; Fabbri, Joanna; Finley, David A.; Flaugher, Brenna; Foley, Ryan Joseph; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Frieman, Joshua A.; García-Bellido, Juan; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Gerdes, David W.; Giannantonio,Tommaso; Goldstein, Daniel Abraham; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Guarnieri, P.; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Hartley, William; Honscheid, K. (Klaus); Jain, Bhuvnesh; James, David J.; Jeltema, Tesla E.; Jouvel, Stéphanie; Kessler, Richard S.; King, Anthea L.; Kirk, Donnacha; Kron, Richard G.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Li, T. S.; Lima, Marcos Vinicius Borges Teixeira; Lin, H.; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Makler, Martín; Manera, Marc; Maraston, Claudia; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Martini, Paul; McMahon, Richard G.; Melchior, Peter M.; Merson, Alexander I.; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Mohr, Joseph J.; Morice-Atkinson, Xan; Naidoo, Krishna; Neilsen, Eric H.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Ostrovski, F.; Palmese, A.; Papadopoulos, Andreas; Peiris, Hiranya V.; Peoples, John; Percival, Will J.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Reed, Sophie L.; Refregier, Alexandre; Romer, Anita K.; Roodman, Aaron; Ross, A.J.; Rozo, Eduardo; Rykoff, Eli; Sadeh, Iftach; Sako, Masao; Sánchez Alonso, Carles; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Sheldon, Erin; Smith, Matthew Wilson L.; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Soumagnac, Maayane Tamar; Suchyta, Eric; Sullivan, Mark; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thaler, Jon J.; Thomas, D.; Thomas, Rollin C.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Vieira, J. D.; Vikram, Vinu; Walker, Alistair; Wechsler, Risa H.; Weller, Jochen; Wester, William Carl; Whiteway, L.; Wilcox, Harry George; Yanny, Brian; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Zuntz, J.; DES Collaboration (2016) [Artigo de periódico]
      This overview paper describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the DES early data. DES is using a wide-field camera ...