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The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a 5000 deg2 grizY survey reaching characteristic photometric depths of 24th magnitude (10 sigma) and enabling accurate photometry and morphology of objects ten times fainter than in SDSS. Preparations for DES…

The Dark Energy Survey (DES; operations 2009-2015) will address the nature of dark energy using four independent and complementary techniques: (1) a galaxy cluster survey over 4000 deg2 in collaboration with the South Pole Telescope…

The Dark Energy Survey Data Management (DESDM) system will process and archive the data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) over the five year period of operation. This paper focuses on a new adaptable processing framework developed to…

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a project with the goal of building, installing and exploiting a new 74 CCD-camera at the Blanco telescope, in order to study the nature of cosmic acceleration. It will cover 5000 square degrees of the…

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a five-year optical imaging campaign with the goal of understanding the origin of cosmic acceleration. DES performs a 5000 square degree survey of the southern sky in five optical bands (g,r,i,z,Y) to a depth…

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a next generation optical survey aimed at measuring the expansion history of the universe using four probes: weak gravitational lensing, galaxy cluster counts, baryon acoustic oscillations, and Type Ia…

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey is a spectroscopic survey of tens of millions of galaxies at $0 < z < 3.5$ covering 14,000 square degrees of the sky. In its first 1.1 years of survey operations, it has observed more…

We describe the Dark Energy Survey (DES), a proposed optical-near infrared survey of 5000 sq. deg of the South Galactic Cap to ~24th magnitude in SDSS griz, that would use a new 3 sq. deg CCD camera to be mounted on the Blanco 4-m telescope…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration

We present a forward-modelling simulation framework designed to model the data products from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). This forward-model process can be thought of as a transfer function -- a mapping from cosmological and astronomical…

The Dark Energy Survey is a stage III dark energy experiment, performing an optical imaging survey to measure cosmological equation of state parameters using four independent methods. The scope and complexity of the survey introduced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-16 Eric H. Neilsen , James T. Annis , H. Thomas Diehl , Molly E. C. Swanson , Chris D'Andrea , Stephen Kent , Alex Drlica-Wagner

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a 5000 sq deg griz imaging survey to be conducted using a proposed 3 sq deg (2.2deg-diameter) wide-field mosaic camera on the CTIO Blanco 4m telescope. The primary scientific goal of the DES is to constrain…

Combining different observational probes, such as galaxy clustering and weak lensing, is a promising technique for unveiling the physics of the Universe with upcoming dark energy experiments. The galaxy redshift sample from the Dark Energy…

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , A. Amara , J. Annis , J. Asorey , S. Avila , O. Ballester , M. Banerji , W. Barkhouse , L. Baruah , M. Baumer , K. Bechtol , M . R. Becker , A. Benoit-Lévy , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. Brout , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , V. Busti , R. Campisano , L. Cardiel-Sas , A. C arnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , X. Chen , C. Conselice , G. Costa , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , R. Das , G. Daues , T. M. Davis , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , J. DeRose , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Elliott , A. E. Evrard , A. Farahi , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , D. A. Finley , M. Fitzpatrick , B. Flaugher , R. J. Foley , P. Fosalba , D. N. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaz tanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , M. S. S. Gill , K. Glazebrook , D. A. Goldstein , M. Gower , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , R. R. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , S. Hamilton , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , J. M. Hislop , D. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , S. Juneau , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , G. Khullar , M. Klein , A. Kovacs , A. M. G. Koziol , E. Krause , A. Kremin , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , J. Lasker , T. S. Li , R. T. Li , A. R. Liddle , M. Lima , H. Lin , P. López-Reyes , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , J. D. Maloney , M. Manera , M. March , J. Marriner , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , T. McClintock , T. McKay , R . G. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Morganson , J. Mould , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , D. Nidever , R. Nikutta , F. Nogueira , B. Nord , P. Nugent , L. Nunes , R. L. C. Ogando , L. Old , K. Olsen , A. B. Pace , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , H. V. Peiris , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas , J. Poh , C. Pond , A. Por redon , A. Pujol , A. Refregier , K. Reil , P. M. Ricker , R. P. Rollins , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , P. Rooney , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , M. L. Sanchez , B. Santiago , A. Saro , V. Scarpine , D. Scolnic , A. Scott , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , N. Shipp , M. L. Silveira , R. C. Smith , J. A. Smith , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobre ira , J. Song , A. Stebbins , E. Suchyta , M. Sullivan , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , R. C. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. K. Vivas , A. R. Wal ker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. C. Wolf , H. Wu , B. Yanny , A. Zenteno , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

This overview article 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 (DECam) on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-18 Dark Energy Survey Collaboration , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , J. Aleksic , S. Allam , A. Amara , D. Bacon , E. Balbinot , M. Banerji , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Levy , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , C. Bonnett , S. Bridle , D. Brooks , R. J. Brunner , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , G. B. Caminha , D. Capozzi , J. Carlsen , A. Carnero-Rosell , M. Carollo , M. Carrasco-Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , L. Clerkin , T. Collett , C. Conselice , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Estrada , J. Etherington , A. E. Evrard , J. Fabbri , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , R. J. Foley , P. Rosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. A. Goldstein , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , P. Guarnieri , G. Gutierrez , W. Hartley , K. Honscheid , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , S. Jouvel , R. Kessler , A. King , D. Kirk , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , M. Makler , M. Manera , C. Maraston , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , R. G. McMahon , P. Melchior , A. Merson , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , X. Morice-Atkinson , K. Naidoo , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , R. Ogando , F. Ostrovski , A. Palmese , A. Papadopoulos , H. Peiris , J. Peoples , W. J. Percival , A. A. Plazas , S. L. Reed , A. Refregier , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , A. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , I. Sadeh , M. Sako , C. Sanchez , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , M. Soumagnac , E. Suchyta , M. Sullivan , M. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , R. C. Thomas , D. Tucker , J. D. Vieira , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , L. Whiteway , H. Wilcox , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

We describe the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Deep Fields, a set of images and associated multi-wavelength catalogue ($ugrizJHKs$) built from Dark Energy Camera (DECam) and Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) data. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-17 W. G. Hartley , A. Choi , A. Amon , R. A. Gruendl , E. Sheldon , I. Harrison , G. M. Bernstein , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , B. Yanny , K. Eckert , H. T. Diehl , A. Alarcon , M. Banerji , K. Bechtol , R. Buchs , S. Cantu , C. Conselice , J. Cordero , C. Davis , T. M. Davis , S. Dodelson , A. Drlica-Wagner , S. Everett , A. Ferté , D. Gruen , K. Honscheid , M. Jarvis , M. D. Johnson , N. Kokron , N. MacCrann , J. Myles , A. B. Pace , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , M. E. S. Pereira , A. A. Plazas , J. Prat , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , L. F. Secco , F. Tarsitano , A. Tong , M. A. Troxel , Z. Vasquez , K. Wang , C. Zhou , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , D. Huterer , D. J. James , S. Kent , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , E. Neilsen , R. L. C. Ogando , S. Pandey , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , A. R. Walker , W. Wester , R. D. Wilkinson , J. Zuntz

We review the measurements of dark energy enabled by observations of the Deep Drilling Fields and the optimization of survey design for cosmological measurements. This white paper is the result of efforts by the LSST DESC Observing Strategy…

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