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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 Construction of Large-scale Structure Catalogs for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

We present the technical details on how large-scale structure (LSS) catalogs are constructed from redshifts measured from spectra observed by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). The LSS catalogs provide the information needed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 A. J. Ross , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Alam , A. Anand , S. Bailey , D. Bianchi , S. Brieden , D. Brooks , E. Burtin , A. Carnero Rosell , E. Chaussidon , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , K. Dawson , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , Arjun Dey , Biprateep Dey , P. Doel , K. Fanning , S. Ferraro , J. Ereza , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Forero-Romero , E. Gaztañaga , H. Gil-Marín , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , J. Guy , C. Hahn , S. Heydenreich , K. Honscheid , C. Howlett , M. Ishak , T. Karim , D. Kirkby , T. Kisner , H. Kong , A. Kremin , A. Krolewski , A. Lambert , M. Landriau , J. Lasker , L. Le Guillou , M. E. Levi , M. Manera , P. Martini , P. McDonald , A. Meisner , R. Miquel , J. Moon , J. Moustakas , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , A. D. Myers , S. Nadathur , L. Napolitano , J. A. Newman , J. Nie , G. Niz , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , W. J. Percival , C. Poppett , F. Prada , A. Raichoor , C. Ravoux , M. Rezaie , A. Rosado-Marin , G. Rossi , L. Samushia , E. Sanchez , E. F. Schlafly , D. Schlegel , H. Seo , A. Smith , D. Sprayberry , G. Tarlé , D. Valcin , M. Vargas-Magaña , B. A. Weaver , M. Wilson , J. Yu , P. Zarrouk , C. Zhao , R. Zhou , H. Zou

DES Science Portal: Computing Photometric Redshifts

A significant challenge facing photometric surveys for cosmological purposes is the need to produce reliable redshift estimates. The estimation of photometric redshifts (photo-zs) has been consolidated as the standard strategy to bypass the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-01 Julia Gschwend , Aurelio Carnero Rosell , Ricardo Ogando , Angelo Fausti Neto , Marcio Maia , Luiz da Costa , Marcos Lima , Paulo Pellegrini , Riccardo Campisano , Cristiano Singulani , Carlos Adean , Christophe Benoist , Michel Aguena , Matias Carrasco Kind , Tamara Davis , Juan de Vicente , Will Hartley , Ben Hoyle , Antonella Palmese , Iftach Sadeh , Tim Abbot , Filipe Abdalla , Sahar Allam , James Annis , Jacobo Asorey , David Brooks , Josh Calcino , Daniela Carollo , Francisco Castander , Chris D'Andrea , Shantanu Desai , August Evrard , Pablo Fosalba , Josh Frieman , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Karl Glazebrook , David Gerdes , Robert Gruendl , Gaston Gutierrez , Samuel Hinton , Devon Hollowood , Klaus Honscheid , Janie Hoormann , David James , Kyler Kuehn , Nikolay Kuropatkin , Ofer Lahav , Geraint Lewis , Chris Lidman , Huan Lin , Edward Macaulay , Jeniffer Marshall , Peter Melchior , Ramon Miquel , Anais Moller , Andrés Plazas , Eusebio Sanchez , Basilio Santiago , Vic Scarpine , Rafe Schindler , Ignacio Sevilla , Mathew Smith , Flavia Sobreira , Natalia Eiré Sommer , Eric Suchyta , Molly Swanson , Gregory Tarle , Brad Tucker , Douglas Tucker , Syed Uddin , Alistair Walker

The Dark Energy Survey Data Management System

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 I. Sevilla , R. Armstrong , E. Bertin , A. Carlson , G. Daues , S. Desai , M. Gower , R. Gruendl , W. Hanlon , M. Jarvis , R. Kessler , N. Kuropatkin , H. Lin , J. Marriner , J. Mohr , D. Petravick , E. Sheldon , M. E. C. Swanson , T. Tomashek , D. Tucker , Y. Yang , B. Yanny

The Dark Energy Survey Data Management System

The Dark Energy Survey collaboration will study cosmic acceleration with a 5000 deg2 griZY survey in the southern sky over 525 nights from 2011-2016. The DES data management (DESDM) system will be used to process and archive these data and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joseph J. Mohr , Wayne Barkhouse , Cristina Beldica , Emmanuel Bertin , Y. Dora Cai , Luiz da Costa , J. Anthony Darnell , Gregory E. Daues , Michael Jarvis , Michelle Gower , Huan Lin , leandro Martelli , Eric Neilsen , Chow-Choong Ngeow , Ricardo Ogando , Alex Parga , Erin Sheldon , Douglas Tucker , Nikolay Kuropatkin , Chris Stoughton

Deep Learning at Scale for the Construction of Galaxy Catalogs in the Dark Energy Survey

The scale of ongoing and future electromagnetic surveys pose formidable challenges to classify astronomical objects. Pioneering efforts on this front include citizen science campaigns adopted by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). SDSS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-09 Asad Khan , E. A. Huerta , Sibo Wang , Robert Gruendl , Elise Jennings , Huihuo Zheng

Modelling the Transfer Function for the Dark Energy Survey

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-12 C. Chang , M. T. Busha , R. H. Wechsler , A. Refregier , A. Amara , E. Rykof , M. R. Becker , C. Bruderer , L. Gamper , B. Leistedt , H. Peiris , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , E. Balbinot , M. Banerji , R. A. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , A. Carnero Rosell , S. Desai , L. N. da Costa , C. E Cunha , T. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , D. Gerdes , D. Gruen , D. James , K. Kuehn , M. A. G. Maia , M. Makler , R. Ogando , A. Plazas , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Zuntz

Crowdsourcing quality control for Dark Energy Survey images

We have developed a crowdsourcing web application for image quality control employed by the Dark Energy Survey. Dubbed the "DES exposure checker", it renders science-grade images directly to a web browser and allows users to mark…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 P. Melchior , E. Sheldon , A. Drlica-Wagner , E. S. Rykoff , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , A. Benoit-Levy , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , M. Crocce , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , P. Doel , A. E. Evrard , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , K. Kuehn , T. S. Li , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , W. Wester , Y. Zhang

The Dark Energy Survey Data Processing and Calibration System

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Joseph J. Mohr , Robert Armstrong , Emmanuel Bertin , Gregory E. Daues , Shantanu Desai , Michelle Gower , Robert Gruendl , William Hanlon , Nikolay Kuropatkin , Huan Lin , John Marriner , Don Petravick , Ignacio Sevilla , Molly Swanson , Todd Tomashek , Douglas Tucker , Brian Yanny , the Dark Energy Survey Collaboration

Automatic Optimized Discovery, Creation and Processing of Astronomical Catalogs

We present the design of a novel way of handling astronomical catalogs in Astro-WISE in order to achieve the scalability required for the data produced by large scale surveys. A high level of automation and abstraction is achieved in order…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-17 Hugo Buddelmeijer , Danny Boxhoorn , Edwin A. Valentijn

Digging deeper into the Southern skies: a compact Milky-Way companion discovered in first-year Dark Energy Survey data

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a 5000 sq. degree survey in the southern hemisphere, which is rapidly reducing the existing north-south asymmetry in the census of MW satellites and other stellar substructure. We use the first-year DES data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 E. Luque , A. Queiroz , B. Santiago , A. Pieres , E. Balbinot , K. Bechtol , A. Drlica-Wagner , A. Fausti Neto , L. N. da Costa , M. A. G. Maia , B. Yanny , T. Abbott , S. Allam , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. E. Cunha , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , T. F. Eifler , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , R. Miquel , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Tucker , A. R. Walker , Y. Zhang

The DES Science Verification Weak Lensing Shear Catalogues

We present weak lensing shear catalogues for 139 square degrees of data taken during the Science Verification (SV) time for the new Dark Energy Camera (DECam) being used for the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We describe our object selection,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 M. Jarvis , E. Sheldon , J. Zuntz , T. Kacprzak , S. L. Bridle , A. Amara , R. Armstrong , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , C. Bonnett , C. Chang , R. Das , J. P. Dietrich , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , C. Gangkofner , D. Gruen , M. Hirsch , E. M. Huff , B. Jain , S. Kent , D. Kirk , N. MacCrann , P. Melchior , A. A. Plazas , A. Refregier , B. Rowe , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Suchyta , M. A. Troxel , V. Vikram , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , J. Clampitt , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Fausti Neto , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. March , P. Martini , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , B. Nord , R. Ogando , K. Reil , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler

The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy - an overview

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

Cosmic Visions Dark Energy: Small Projects Portfolio

Understanding cosmic acceleration is one of the key science drivers for astrophysics and high-energy physics in the coming decade (2014 P5 Report). With the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Kyle Dawson , Josh Frieman , Katrin Heitmann , Bhuvnesh Jain , Steve Kahn , Rachel Mandelbaum , Saul Perlmutter , Anže Slosar

DESCQA: An Automated Validation Framework for Synthetic Sky Catalogs

The use of high-quality simulated sky catalogs is essential for the success of cosmological surveys. The catalogs have diverse applications, such as investigating signatures of fundamental physics in cosmological observables, understanding…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Yao-Yuan Mao , Eve Kovacs , Katrin Heitmann , Thomas D. Uram , Andrew J. Benson , Duncan Campbell , Sofía A. Cora , Joseph DeRose , Tiziana Di Matteo , Salman Habib , Andrew P. Hearin , J. Bryce Kalmbach , K. Simon Krughoff , François Lanusse , Zarija Lukić , Rachel Mandelbaum , Jeffrey A. Newman , Nelson Padilla , Enrique Paillas , Adrian Pope , Paul M. Ricker , Andrés N. Ruiz , Ananth Tenneti , Cristian Vega-Martínez , Risa H. Wechsler , Rongpu Zhou , Ying Zu

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: Dark Energy Science Collaboration

This white paper describes the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC), whose goal is the study of dark energy and related topics in fundamental physics with data from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). It provides an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-05 LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

New Science, New Media: An Assessment of the Online Education and Public Outreach Initiatives of The Dark Energy Survey

As large-scale international collaborations become the standard for astronomy research, a wealth of opportunities have emerged to create innovative education and public outreach (EPO) programming. In the past two decades, large…

Physics Education · Physics 2018-09-19 R. C. Wolf , A. K. Romer , B. Nord , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , L. Biron , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Das , A. Ferte , M. S. S. Gill , R. R. Gupta , S. Hamilton , J. M. Hislop , E. Jennings , C. Krawiec , A. Kremin , T. S. Li , T. Lingard , A. Moller , J. Muir , D. Q. Nagasawa , R. L. C. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Suchyta , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

PreCam, a Precursor Observational Campaign for Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , S. Allam , J. T. Annis , T. Bailey , E. Balbinot , J. P. Bernstein , T. Biesiadzinski , D. L. Burke , M. Butner , J. I. B. Camargo , L. A. N. da Costa , D. DePoy , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , J. Estrada , A. Fausti , B. Gerke , V. Guarino , H. H. Head , R. Kessler , H. Lin , W. Lorenzon , M. A. G. Maia , L. Maki , J. Marshall , B. Nord , E. Neilsen , R. L. C. Ogando , D. Park , J. Peoples , D. Rastawicki , J. -P. Rheault , B. Santiago , M. Schubnell , P. Seitzer , J. A. Smith , H. Spinka , A. Sypniewski , G. Tarle , D. L. Tucker , A. Walker , W. Wester

The Dark Energy Survey Image Processing Pipeline

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 E. Morganson , R. A. Gruendl , F. Menanteau , M. Carrasco Kind , Y. -C. Chen , G. Daues , A. Drlica-Wagner , D. N. Friedel , M. Gower , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , R. Kessler , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , C. Pond , B. Yanny , S. Allam , R. Armstrong , W. Barkhouse , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Lévy , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , E. Buckley-Geer , R. Covarrubias , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , D. A. Goldstein , D. Gruen , T. S. Li , H. Lin , J. Marriner , J. J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , C. -C. Ngeow , K. Paech , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , F. Sobreira , D. L. Tucker , W. Wester

DES Y1 Results: Validating cosmological parameter estimation using simulated Dark Energy Surveys

We use mock galaxy survey simulations designed to resemble the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) data to validate and inform cosmological parameter estimation. When similar analysis tools are applied to both simulations and real survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-16 N. MacCrann , J. DeRose , R. H. Wechsler , J. Blazek , E. Gaztanaga , M. Crocce , E. S. Rykoff , M. R. Becker , B. Jain , E. Krause , T. F. Eifler , D. Gruen , J. Zuntz , M. A. Troxel , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Prat , M. Wang , S. Dodelson , A. Kravtsov , P. Fosalba , M. T. Busha , A. E. Evrard , D. Huterer , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , S. Avila , G. M. Bernstein , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , D. Kirk , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , A. A. Plazas , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , 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 , A. R. Walker , J. Weller