• Deep SOAR follow-up photometry of two Milky Way outer-halo companions discovered with Dark Energy Survey 

      Luque Canaza, Elmer Fidel; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Pieres, Adriano; Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade; Dal Ponte, Marina; Thomas, D. (2018) [Artigo de periódico]
      We report the discovery of a new star cluster, DES 3, in the constellation of Indus, and deeper observations of the previously identified satellite DES J0222.7−5217 (Eridanus III). DES 3 was detected as a stellar overdensity ...
    • Digging deeper into the Southern skies : a compact Milky Way companion discovered in first-year Dark Energy Survey data 

      Luque Canaza, Elmer Fidel; Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Pieres, Adriano; Balbinot, Eduardo; Bechtol, Keith; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Costa, Luiz N. da; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Yanny, Brian; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Allam, Sahar S.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Dietrich, Jörg P.; Eifler, Tim; Finley, David A.; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gerdes, David W.; Gruen, Daniel; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Honscheid, K.; James, David J.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Li, T. S.; March, Marisa Cristina; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Martini, Paul; Miquel, Ramon; Neilsen, Eric H.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Romer, Anita K.; Roodman, Aaron; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; 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.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Walker, Alistair; Zhang, Y.; DES Collaboration (2016) [Artigo de periódico]
      We use the first-year Dark Energy Survey (DES) data down to previously unprobed photometric depths to search for stellar systems in the Galactic halo, therefore complementing the previous analysis of the same data carried ...
    • 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 ...
    • Eight ultra-faint galaxy candidates discovered in year two the Dark Energy Survey 

      Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Bechtol, Keith; Rykoff, Eli; Luque Canaza, Elmer Fidel; Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade; Mao, Yao-Yuan; Wechsler, Risa H.; Simon, Josh D.; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Yanny, Brian; Balbinot, Eduardo; Dodelson, Scott; Fausti Neto, Angelo; James, David J.; Li, T. S.; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Pieres, Adriano; Stringer, Katelyn M.; Walker, Alistair; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bernstein, Rebecca A.; Bernstein, Gary M.; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Burke, David Lyle; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Crocce, Martin; Costa, Luiz N. da; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Dietrich, Jörg P.; Doel, Peter; Eifler, Tim; Evrard, August E.; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gaztañaga, Enrique; Gerdes, David W.; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Honscheid, K.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Miquel, Ramon; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Reil, Kevin; Roodman, Aaron; Sako, Masao; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Tucker, Douglas L.; Vikram, Vinu; Wester, William Carl; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Zuntz, J.; DES Collaboration (2015) [Artigo de periódico]
      We report the discovery of eight new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidates in the second year of optical imaging data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Six of these candidates are detected at high confidence, while two ...
    • Physical properties of star clusters in the outer LMC as observed by the DES 

      Pieres, Adriano; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Balbinot, Eduardo; Luque Canaza, Elmer Fidel; Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade; Costa, Luiz N. da; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Roodman, Aaron; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Allam, Sahar S.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, E.; Burke, David Lyle; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Eifler, Tim; Finley, David A.; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Frieman, Joshua A.; Gerdes, David W.; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Honscheid, K. (Klaus); James, David J.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Li, T. S.; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Martini, Paul; Miller, Christopher J.; Miquel, Ramon; Nichol, Robert C.; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Romer, Anita K.; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; 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 (2016) [Artigo de periódico]
      The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) harbours a rich and diverse system of star clusters, whose ages, chemical abundances and positions provide information about the LMC history of star formation. We use Science Verification ...
    • 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, ...
    • A stellar overdensity associated with the Small Magellanic Cloud 

      Pieres, Adriano; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Bechtol, Keith; Marel, Roeland Paul van der; Besla, Gurtina; Martin, Nicolas F.; Belokurov, Vasily; Gallart, Carme; Martínez-Delgado, David; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Nöel, N. E. D.; Majewski, Steven Raymond; Cioni, Maria-Rosa L.; Li, T. S.; Hartley, William; Luque Canaza, Elmer Fidel; Conn, Blair Campbell; Walker, Alistair; Balbinot, Eduardo; Stringfellow, Guy S.; Olsen, Knut A. G.; Nidever, D.L.; Costa, Luiz N. da; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Annis, James T.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Desai, S.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Doel, Peter; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; García-Bellido, Juan; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gschwend, Julia de Figueiredo; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; Honscheid, K.; James, David J.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Menanteau, Felipe; Miquel, Ramon; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Romer, Anita K.; Sako, Mari; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Tucker, Douglas L.; Wester, William Carl (2017) [Artigo de periódico]
      We report the discovery of a stellar overdensity 8◦ north of the centre of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC; Small Magellanic Cloud Northern Over-Density; SMCNOD), using data from the first 2 yr of the Dark Energy Survey ...
    • The Dark Energy Survey view of the Sagittarius stream : discovery of two faint stellar system candidates 

      Luque Canaza, Elmer Fidel; Pieres, Adriano; Santiago, Basilio Xavier; Yanny, Brian; Vivas, Anna Katherina; Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Morganson, Eric; Balbinot, Eduardo; Marshall, Jennifer L.; Li, T. S.; Fausti Neto, Angelo; Costa, Luiz N. da; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Bechtol, Keith; Kim, A. G.; Bernstein, Gary M.; Dodelson, Scott; Whiteway, L.; Diehl, H. Thomas; Finley, David A.; Abbott, Timothy M. C.; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Allam, Sahar S.; Annis, James T.; Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien; Bertin, Emmanuel; Brooks, D.; Burke, David Lyle; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio; Carrasco Kind, Matías; Carretero Palacios, Jorge; Cunha, Carlos Eduardo; D'Andrea, Christopher B.; Desai, S.; Doel, Peter; Evrard, August E.; Flaugher, Brenna; Fosalba Vela, Pablo; Gerdes, David W.; Goldstein, Daniel Abraham; Gruen, Daniel; Gruendl, Robert A.; Gutierrez, Gaston R.; James, David J.; Kuehn, Kyler; Kuropatkin, Nikolay P.; Lahav, Ofer; Martini, Paul; Miquel, Ramon; Nord, Brian Dennis; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Plazas Malagón, Andrés Alejandro; Romer, Anita K.; Sanchez-Alvaro, Eusebio; Scarpine, Victor Emanuel; Schubnell, Michael; Sevilla Noarbe, Ignacio; Smith, Robert Christopher; Soares-Santos, Marcelle; Sobreira, Flávia; Suchyta, Eric; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tarle, Gregory; Thomas, D.; Walker, Alistair (2017) [Artigo de periódico]
      We report the discovery of two new candidate stellar systems in the constellation of Cetus using the data from the first two years of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The objects, DES J0111−1341 and DES J0225+0304, are located ...