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Weighing the Giants - III. Methods and Measurements of Accurate Galaxy Cluster Weak-Lensing Masses

We report weak-lensing masses for 51 of the most X-ray luminous galaxy clusters known. This cluster sample, introduced earlier in this series of papers, spans redshifts 0.15 < z_cl < 0.7, and is well suited to calibrate mass proxies for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-21 Douglas E. Applegate , Anja von der Linden , Patrick L. Kelly , Mark T. Allen , Steven W. Allen , Patricia R. Burchat , David L. Burke , Harald Ebeling , Adam Mantz , R. Glenn Morris

The DECam Plane Survey: Optical photometry of two billion objects in the southern Galactic plane

The DECam Plane Survey is a five-band optical and near-infrared survey of the southern Galactic plane with the Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo. The survey is designed to reach past the main-sequence turn-off at the distance of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 E. F. Schlafly , G. M. Green , D. Lang , T. Daylan , D. P. Finkbeiner , A. Lee , A. M. Meisner , D. Schlegel , F. Valdes

Redshifts in the Southern Abell Redshift Survey Clusters. I. The Data

The Southern Abell Redshift Survey contains 39 clusters of galaxies with redshifts in the range 0.0 < z < 0.31 and a median redshift depth of z = 0.0845. SARS covers the region 0 < decl < -65 deg, R.A. < 5h, R.A. > 21h (while avoiding the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. J. Way , H. Quintana , L. Infante , D. G. Lambas , H. Muriel

CMB lensing tomography with the DES Science Verification galaxies

We measure the cross-correlation between the galaxy density in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Science Verification data and the lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as reconstructed with the Planck satellite and the South Pole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-19 T. Giannantonio , P. Fosalba , R. Cawthon , Y. Omori , M. Crocce , F. Elsner , B. Leistedt , S. Dodelson , A. Benoit-Levy , E. Gaztanaga , G. Holder , H. V. Peiris , W. J. Percival , D. Kirk , A. H. Bauer , B. A. Benson , G. M. Bernstein , J. Carretero , T. M. Crawford , R. Crittenden , D. Huterer , B. Jain , E. Krause , C. L. Reichardt , A. J. Ross , G. Simard , B. Soergel , A. Stark , K. T. Story , J. D. Vieira , J. Weller , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , R. Armstrong , M. Banerji , R. A. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , D. Capozzi , J. E. Carlstrom , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , F. J. Castander , C. L. Chang , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. B. D'Andrea , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , D. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , B. R. Saliwanchik , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Zuntz

The WINGS Survey: a progress report

A two-band (B and V) wide-field imaging survey of a complete, all-sky X-ray selected sample of 78 clusters in the redshift range z=0.04-0.07 is presented. The aim of this survey is to provide the astronomical community with a complete set…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Fasano , B. Poggianti , D. Bettoni , E. Pignatelli , C. Marmo , M. Moles , P. Kjaergaard , J. Varela , W. Couch , A. Dressler

A CO Survey of SpARCS Star-Forming Brightest Cluster Galaxies: Evidence for Uniformity in BCG Molecular Gas Processing Across Cosmic Time

We present ALMA CO (2-1) detections of 24 star-forming Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) over $0.2<z<1.2$, constituting the largest and most distant sample of molecular gas measurements in BCGs to date. The BCGs are selected from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-19 Delaney A. Dunne , Tracy M. A. Webb , Allison Noble , Christopher Lidman , Heath Shipley , Adam Muzzin , Gillian Wilson , H. K. C. Yee

4MOST Consortium Survey 8: Cosmology Redshift Survey (CRS)

The 4MOST Cosmology Redshift Survey (CRS) will perform stringent cosmological tests via spectroscopic clustering measurements that will complement the best lensing, cosmic microwave background and other surveys in the southern hemisphere.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 J. Richard , J. -P. Kneib , C. Blake , A. Raichoor , J. Comparat , T. Shanks , J. Sorce , M. Sahlén , C. Howlett , E. Tempel , R. McMahon , M. Bilicki , B. Roukema , J. Loveday , D. Pryer , T. Buchert , C. Zhao

HICOSMO - Cosmology with a complete sample of galaxy clusters: I. Data analysis, sample selection and luminosity-mass scaling-relation

The X-ray regime, where the most massive visible component of galaxy clusters, the intra cluster medium (ICM), is visible, offers directly measured quantities, like the luminosity, and derived quantities, like the total mass, to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 G. Schellenberger , T. H. Reiprich

The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 1

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

Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS): 90 GHz Telescope Pointing, Beam Profile, Window Function, and Polarization Performance

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is a telescope array that observes the cosmic microwave background (CMB) over ~75% of the sky from the Atacama Desert, Chile, at frequency bands centered near 40, 90, 150, and 220 GHz.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-01 Rahul Datta , Michael K. Brewer , Jullianna Denes Couto , Joseph Eimer , Yunyang Li , Zhilei Xu , Aamir Ali , John W. Appel , Charles L. Bennett , Ricardo Bustos , David T. Chuss , Joseph Cleary , Sumit Dahal , Francisco Espinoza , Thomas Essinger-Hileman , Pedro Fluxá , Kathleen Harrington , Kyle Helson , Jeffrey Iuliano , John Karakla , Tobias A. Marriage , Sasha Novack , Carolina Núñez , Ivan L. Padilla , Lucas Parker , Matthew A. Petroff , Rodrigo Reeves , Karwan Rostem , Rui Shi , Deniz A. N. Valle , Duncan J. Watts , Janet L. Weiland , Edward J. Wollack , Lingzhen Zeng

Photometric redshifts for the Pan-STARRS1 survey

We present a robust method to estimate the redshift of galaxies using Pan-STARRS1 photometric data. Our method is an adaptation of the one proposed by Beck et al. (2016) for the SDSS Data Release 12. It uses a training set of 2313724…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Paula Tarrío , Stefano Zarattini

Cyber-infrastructure to Support Science and Data Management for the Dark Energy Survey

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Ngeow , J. J. Mohr , T. Alam , W. A. Barkhouse , C. Beldica , D. Cai , G. Daues , R. Plante , J. Annis , H. Lin , D. Tucker , R. C. Smith

The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2

We present the second public data release of the Dark Energy Survey, DES DR2, based on optical/near-infrared imaging by the Dark Energy Camera mounted on the 4-m Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. DES DR2…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Adamow , M. Aguena , S. Allam , A. Amon , J. Annis , S. Avila , D. Bacon , M. Banerji , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , L. Gelman , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , M. Gill , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. D. Johnson , S. Kent , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , C. Lidman , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , T. Manning , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , J. Myles , E. Neilsen , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas , C. Pond , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , J. Allyn. Smith , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , P. E. Tremblay , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , D. J Turner , T. N. Varga , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. D. Wilkinson , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang , R. Nikutta , M. Fitzpatrick , A. Jacques , A. Scott , K. Olsen , L. Huang , D. Herrera , S. Juneau , D. Nidever , B. A. Weaver , C. Adean , V. Correia , M. de Freitas , F. N. Freitas , C. Singulani , G. Vila-Verde

Cluster Mass Calibration at High Redshift: HST Weak Lensing Analysis of 13 Distant Galaxy Clusters from the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Survey

We present an HST/ACS weak gravitational lensing analysis of 13 massive high-redshift (z_median=0.88) galaxy clusters discovered in the South Pole Telescope (SPT) Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Survey. This study is part of a larger campaign that aims…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 T. Schrabback , D. Applegate , J. P. Dietrich , H. Hoekstra , S. Bocquet , A. H. Gonzalez , A. von der Linden , M. McDonald , C. B. Morrison , S. F. Raihan , S. W. Allen , M. Bayliss , B. A. Benson , L. E. Bleem , I. Chiu , S. Desai , R. J. Foley , T. de Haan , F. W. High , S. Hilbert , A. B. Mantz , R. Massey , J. Mohr , C. L. Reichardt , A. Saro , P. Simon , C. Stern , C. W. Stubbs , A. Zenteno

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Analysis of potential systematics

We analyze the density field of galaxies observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) included in the SDSS Data Release Nine (DR9). DR9 includes spectroscopic redshifts for over 400,000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ashley J. Ross , Will J. Percival , Ariel G. Sanchez , Lado Samushia , Shirley Ho , Eyal Kazin , Marc Manera , Beth Reid , Martin White , Rita Tojeiro , Cameron K. McBride , Xiaoying Xu , David A. Wake , Michael A. Strauss , Francesco Montesano , Molly E. C. Swanson , Stephen Bailey , Adam S. Bolton , Antonio Montero Dorta , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Hong Guo , Jean-Christophe Hamilton , Robert C. Nichol , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Francisco Prada , David J. Schlegel , Mariana Vargas Magana , Idit Zehavi , Michael Blanton , Dmitry Bizyaev , Howard Brewington , Antonio J. Cuesta , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Daniel Oravetz , John Parejko , Kaike Pan , Donald P. Schneider Alaina Shelden , Audrey Simmons , Stephanie Snedden , Gong-bo Zhao

The ESO Slice Project (ESP) galaxy redshift survey: II. The luminosity function and mean galaxy density

(Abridged) The ESO Slice Project (ESP) is a galaxy redshift survey we have completed as an ESO Key-Project over ~23 square degrees, in a region near the South Galactic Pole. The survey is nearly complete to the limiting magnitude b_J=19.4…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 E. Zucca , G. Zamorani , G. Vettolani , A. Cappi , R. Merighi , M. Mignoli , G. M. Stirpe , H. MacGillivray , C. Collins , C. Balkowski , V. Cayatte , S. Maurogordato , D. Proust , G. Chincarini , L. Guzzo , D. Maccagni , R. Scaramella , A. Blanchard , M. Ramella

Reconstructing Redshift Distributions with Cross-Correlations: Tests and an Optimized Recipe

Many of the cosmological tests to be performed by planned dark energy experiments will require extremely well-characterized photometric redshift measurements. Current estimates are that the true mean redshift of the objects in each photo-z…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-22 Daniel J. Matthews , Jeffrey A. Newman

Calibration of the MACHO Photometry Database

The MACHO Project is a microlensing survey that monitors the brightnesses of 60 million stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), Small Magellanic Cloud, and Galactic bulge. Our database presently contains about 80 billion photometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 C. Alcock , R. A. Allsman , D. R. Alves , T. S. Axelrod , A. C. Becker , D. P. Bennett , K. H. Cook , A. J. Drake , K. C. Freeman , K. Griest , M. J. Lehner , S. L. Marshall , D. Minniti , B. A. Peterson , M. R. Pratt , C. A. Nelson , P. J. Quinn , C. W. Stubbs , W. Sutherland , A. B. Tomaney , D. L. Welch

The Palomar Digital Sky Survey (DPOSS)

We describe DPOSS, a new digital survey of the northern sky, based on the POSS-II photographic sky atlas. The survey covers the entire sky north of delta = -3 deg in 3 bands, calibrated to the Gunn $gri$ system, reaching to equivalent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. G. Djorgovski , R. R. Gal , S. C. Odewahn , R. R. de Carvalho , R. Brunner , G. Longo , R. Scaramella

Astrometric Calibration of the Beijing$-$Arizona Sky Survey

We present the astrometric calibration of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS). The BASS astrometry was tied to the International Celestial Reference Frame via the \emph{Gaia} Data Release 2 reference catalog. For effects that were stable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-30 Xiyan Peng , Zhaoxiang Qi , Tianmeng Zhang , Zhenyu Wu , Zhimin Zhou , Jundan Nie , Hu Zou , Xiaohui Fan , Linhua Jiang , Ian McGreer , Jinyi Yang , Arjun Dey , Jun Ma , Jiali Wang , David Schlegel , Xu Zhou