The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 1
Abstract
We describe the first public data release of the Dark Energy Survey, DES DR1, consisting of reduced single epoch images, coadded images, coadded source catalogs, and associated products and services assembled over the first three years of DES science operations. DES DR1 is based on optical/near-infrared imaging from 345 distinct nights (August 2013 to February 2016) by the Dark Energy Camera mounted on the 4-m Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. We release data from the DES wide-area survey covering ~5,000 sq. deg. of the southern Galactic cap in five broad photometric bands, grizY. DES DR1 has a median delivered point-spread function of g = 1.12, r = 0.96, i = 0.88, z = 0.84, and Y = 0.90 arcsec FWHM, a photometric precision of < 1% in all bands, and an astrometric precision of 151 mas. The median coadded catalog depth for a 1.95" diameter aperture at S/N = 10 is g = 24.33, r = 24.08, i = 23.44, z = 22.69, and Y = 21.44 mag. DES DR1 includes nearly 400M distinct astronomical objects detected in ~10,000 coadd tiles of size 0.534 sq. deg. produced from ~39,000 individual exposures. Benchmark galaxy and stellar samples contain ~310M and ~ 80M objects, respectively, following a basic object quality selection. These data are accessible through a range of interfaces, including query web clients, image cutout servers, jupyter notebooks, and an interactive coadd image visualization tool. DES DR1 constitutes the largest photometric data set to date at the achieved depth and photometric precision.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1801.03181,
title = {The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 1},
author = {T. M. C. Abbott and F. B. Abdalla and S. Allam and A. Amara and J. Annis and J. Asorey and S. Avila and O. Ballester and M. Banerji and W. Barkhouse and L. Baruah and M. Baumer and K. Bechtol and M . R. Becker and A. Benoit-Lévy and G. M. Bernstein and E. Bertin and J. Blazek and S. Bocquet and D. Brooks and D. Brout and E. Buckley-Geer and D. L. Burke and V. Busti and R. Campisano and L. Cardiel-Sas and A. C arnero Rosell and M. Carrasco Kind and J. Carretero and F. J. Castander and R. Cawthon and C. Chang and X. Chen and C. Conselice and G. Costa and M. Crocce and C. E. Cunha and C. B. D'Andrea and L. N. da Costa and R. Das and G. Daues and T. M. Davis and C. Davis and J. De Vicente and D. L. DePoy and J. DeRose and S. Desai and H. T. Diehl and J. P. Dietrich and S. Dodelson and P. Doel and A. Drlica-Wagner and T. F. Eifler and A. E. Elliott and A. E. Evrard and A. Farahi and A. Fausti Neto and E. Fernandez and D. A. Finley and M. Fitzpatrick and B. Flaugher and R. J. Foley and P. Fosalba and D. N. Friedel and J. Frieman and J. García-Bellido and E. Gaz tanaga and D. W. Gerdes and T. Giannantonio and M. S. S. Gill and K. Glazebrook and D. A. Goldstein and M. Gower and D. Gruen and R. A. Gruendl and J. Gschwend and R. R. Gupta and G. Gutierrez and S. Hamilton and W. G. Hartley and S. R. Hinton and J. M. Hislop and D. Hollowood and K. Honscheid and B. Hoyle and D. Huterer and B. Jain and D. J. James and T. Jeltema and M. W. G. Johnson and M. D. Johnson and S. Juneau and T. Kacprzak and S. Kent and G. Khullar and M. Klein and A. Kovacs and A. M. G. Koziol and E. Krause and A. Kremin and R. Kron and K. Kuehn and S. Kuhlmann and N. Kuropatkin and O. Lahav and J. Lasker and T. S. Li and R. T. Li and A. R. Liddle and M. Lima and H. Lin and P. López-Reyes and N. MacCrann and M. A. G. Maia and J. D. Maloney and M. Manera and M. March and J. Marriner and J. L. Marshall and P. Martini and T. McClintock and T. McKay and R . G. McMahon and P. Melchior and F. Menanteau and C. J. Miller and R. Miquel and J. J. Mohr and E. Morganson and J. Mould and E. Neilsen and R. C. Nichol and D. Nidever and R. Nikutta and F. Nogueira and B. Nord and P. Nugent and L. Nunes and R. L. C. Ogando and L. Old and K. Olsen and A. B. Pace and A. Palmese and F. Paz-Chinchón and H. V. Peiris and W. J. Percival and D. Petravick and A. A. Plazas and J. Poh and C. Pond and A. Por redon and A. Pujol and A. Refregier and K. Reil and P. M. Ricker and R. P. Rollins and A. K. Romer and A. Roodman and P. Rooney and A. J. Ross and E. S. Rykoff and M. Sako and E. Sanchez and M. L. Sanchez and B. Santiago and A. Saro and V. Scarpine and D. Scolnic and A. Scott and S. Serrano and I. Sevilla-Noarbe and E. Sheldon and N. Shipp and M. L. Silveira and R. C. Smith and J. A. Smith and M. Smith and M. Soares-Santos and F. Sobre ira and J. Song and A. Stebbins and E. Suchyta and M. Sullivan and M. E. C. Swanson and G. Tarle and J. Thaler and D. Thomas and R. C. Thomas and M. A. Troxel and D. L. Tucker and V. Vikram and A. K. Vivas and A. R. Wal ker and R. H. Wechsler and J. Weller and W. Wester and R. C. Wolf and H. Wu and B. Yanny and A. Zenteno and Y. Zhang and J. Zuntz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.03181},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
30 pages, 20 Figures. Release page found at this url https://des.ncsa.illinois.edu/releases/dr1