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We present analysis using a citizen science campaign to improve the cosmological measures from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). The goal of HETDEX is to measure the Hubble expansion rate, $H(z)$, and angular…

PreCam, a precursor observational campaign supporting the Dark Energy Survey (DES), is designed to produce a photometric and astrometric catalog of nearly a hundred thousand standard stars within the DES footprint, while the PreCam…

Crowdsourcing offers a practical method for ranking and scoring large amounts of items. To investigate the algorithms and incentives that can be used in crowdsourcing quality evaluations, we built CrowdGrader, a tool that lets students…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Luca de Alfaro , Michael Shavlovsky

Some complex problems, such as image tagging and natural language processing, are very challenging for computers, where even state-of-the-art technology is yet able to provide satisfactory accuracy. Therefore, rather than relying solely on…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Xuan Liu , Meiyu Lu , Beng Chin Ooi , Yanyan Shen , Sai Wu , Meihui Zhang

Website owners make conscious and unconscious decisions that affect their users, potentially exposing them to privacy and security risks in the process. In this paper we introduce PrivacyScore, an automated website scanning portal that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Max Maass , Pascal Wichmann , Henning Pridöhl , Dominik Herrmann

The effective redshift distribution $n(z)$ of galaxies is a critical component in the study of weak gravitational lensing. Here, we introduce a new method for determining $n(z)$ for weak lensing surveys based on high-quality redshifts and…

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

We present galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from 1321 sq. deg. of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 (Y1) data. The lens sample consists of a selection of 660,000 red galaxies with high-precision photometric redshifts, known as redMaGiC,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 J. Prat , C. Sánchez , Y. Fang , D. Gruen , J. Elvin-Poole , N. Kokron , L. F. Secco , B. Jain , R. Miquel , N. MacCrann , M. A. Troxel , A. Alarcon , D. Bacon , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. P. Dietrich , A. Drlica-Wagner , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , W. G. Hartley , B. Hoyle , E. M. Huff , M. Jarvis , M. M. Rau , R. P. Rollins , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , E. Sheldon , T. N. Varga , P. Vielzeuf , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , T. F. Eifler , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. A. Goldstein , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , D. Kirk , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , J. J. Mohr , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang

The amount and nature of dark energy (DE) can be tightly constrained by measuring the spatial correlation features and evolution of a sample of ~ 100,000 galaxy clusters over the redshift range 0<z < 1.5. Such an X-ray survey will discover…

Millions of quasar spectra will be collected by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), leading to a four-fold increase in the number of known quasars. High accuracy quasar classification is essential to tighten constraints on…

We describe an initiative to build and use the Dark Energy Spectrometer (DESpec), a wide-field spectroscopic survey instrument for the Blanco 4 meter telescope at Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. A new system with…

Webcam-based eye tracking is a cost-effective, scalable method for remote research that effectively reaches broader populations. However, uncontrolled environments and hardware diversity lead to inconsistent data quality in crowdsourcing.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ka Hei Carrie Lau , Enkelejda Kasneci

The automated detection of corrosion from images (i.e., photographs) or video (i.e., drone footage) presents significant advantages in terms of corrosion monitoring. Such advantages include access to remote locations, mitigation of risk to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-08 W. T. Nash , C. J. Powell , T. Drummond , N. Birbilis

Galaxy cross-correlations with high-fidelity redshift samples hold the potential to precisely calibrate systematic photometric redshift uncertainties arising from the unavailability of complete and representative training and validation…

This work is part of a series establishing the redshift framework for the $3\times2$pt analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Year 6 (DES Y6). For DES Y6, photometric redshift distributions are estimated using self-organizing maps (SOMs),…

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 measure the weak-lensing masses and galaxy distributions of four massive galaxy clusters observed during the Science Verification phase of the Dark Energy Survey. This pathfinder study is meant to 1) validate the DECam imager for the…

We have developed a method that maps large astronomical images onto a two-dimensional map and clusters them. A combination of various state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) algorithms is used to develop a fully unsupervised image quality…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Hossen Teimoorinia , Sara Shishehchi , Ahnaf Tazwar , Ping Lin , Finn Archinuk , Stephen D. J. Gwyn , J. J. Kavelaars