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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
We present a joint cosmological analysis of projected galaxy clustering observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Data Release 1 (DESI-DR1), and overlapping weak gravitational lensing observations from three datasets: the…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2026-04-29
A. Porredon , C. Blake , J. U. Lange , N. Emas , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , A. Bera , D. Bianchi , D. Brooks , F. J. Castander , T. Claybaugh , J. Coloma Nadal , A. Cuceu , K. S. Dawson , A. de la Macorra , Biprateep Dey , P. Doel , A. Elliott , S. Ferraro , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Forero-Romero , C. Garcia-Quintero , E. Gaztañaga , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , G. Gutierrez , J. Guy , B. Hadzhiyska , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , S. Heydenreich , K. Honscheid , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , M. Ishak , S. Joudaki , R. Joyce , D. Kirkby , A. Kremin , A. Krolewski , O. Lahav , C. Lamman , M. Landriau , L. Le Guillou , A. Leauthaud , M. E. Levi , M. Manera , A. Meisner , R. Miquel , S. Nadathur , J. A. Newman , G. Niz , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , W. J. Percival , C. Poppett , F. Prada , I. Pérez-Ràfols , A. Robertson , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , E. Sanchez , C. Saulder , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , A. Semenaite , H. Seo , J. Silber , A. Souki , D. Sprayberry , G. Tarlé , M. Vargas-Magaña , B. A. Weaver , C. Zhou , R. Zhou , H. Zou
We present constraints on cosmic structure growth from the analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing with galaxies from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1. We analyze four samples drawn from the…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2025-12-19
Johannes U. Lange , Alexandra Wells , Andrew Hearin , Gillian Beltz-Mohrmann , Alexie Leauthaud , Sven Heydenreich , Chris Blake , Jessica Nicole Aguilar , Steven Ahlen , Abhijeet Anand , Davide Bianchi , David Brooks , Francisco Javier Castander , Todd Claybaugh , Shaun Cole , Andrei Cuceu , Kyle Dawson , Axel de la Macorra , Biprateep Dey , Peter Doel , Ann Elliott , Ni Putu Audita Placida Emas , Simone Ferraro , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Cristhian Garcia-Quintero , Enrique Gaztañaga , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Gaston Gutierrez , Julien Guy , Klaus Honscheid , Dragan Huterer , Mustapha Ishak , Shahab Joudaki , Dick Joyce , Robert Kehoe , David Kirkby , Theodore Kisner , Anthony Kremin , Alex Krolewski , Ofer Lahav , Claire Lamman , Martin Landriau , Laurent Le Guillou , Michael Levi , Marc Manera , Paul Martini , Aaron Meisner , Ramon Miquel , John Moustakas , Eva-Maria Mueller , Seshadri Nadathur , Jeffrey A. Newman , Gustavo Niz , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Will Percival , Claire Poppett , Anna Porredon , Francisco Prada , Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols , Amy Robertson , Graziano Rossi , Rossana Ruggeri , Eusebio Sanchez , Christoph Saulder , David Schlegel , Michael Schubnell , Agne Semenaite , Hee-Jong Seo , Joseph Harry Silber , David Sprayberry , Zechang Sun , Gregory Tarlé , Mariana Vargas Magana , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Risa Wechsler , Pauline Zarrouk , Rongpu Zhou , Hu Zou
We present cosmology results combining galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing measured in the full six years (Y6) of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) covering $\sim$5000 deg$^2$. We perform a large-scale structure…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2026-01-30
DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Adamow , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. S. Allam , O. Alves , A. Amon , D. Anbajagane , F. Andrade-Oliveira , S. Avila , D. Bacon , E. J. Baxter , J. Beas-Gonzalez , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. Brout , H. Camacho , G. Camacho-Ciurana , R. Camilleri , G. Campailla , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , P. Carrilho , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , A. Choi , J. M. Coloma-Nadal , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , W. d'Assignies , L. N. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Estrada , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , J. Fang , A. Farahi , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , P. Giles , K. Glazebrook , M. Gorsuch , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , E. Henning , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , N. Jeffrey , T. Jeltema , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , A. Kovacs , E. Krause , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , E. Legnani , C. Lidman , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. Manera , T. Manning , J. L. Marshall , S. Mau , J. McCullough , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Muir , J. Myles , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , J. H. O'Donnell , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , M. Paterno , J. Peoples , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , A. Pourtsidou , J. Prat , C. Preston , M. Raveri , W. Riquelme , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , P. Rogozenski , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , T. Schutt , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , N. Sherman , T. Shin , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , M. Tabbutt , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , A. Tong , L. Toribio San Cipriano , M. A. Troxel , M. Tsedrik , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , D. H. Weinberg , J. Weller , V. Wetzell , A. Whyley , R. D. Wilkinson , P. Wiseman , H. -Y. Wu , M. Yamamoto , B. Yanny , B. Yin , G. Zacharegkas , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz
The existence, properties, and dynamics of the dark sectors of our universe pose fundamental challenges to our current model of physics, and large-scale astronomical surveys may be our only hope to unravel these long-standing mysteries. In…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2025-05-09
Robert Besuner , Arjun Dey , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Haruki Ebina , Guillermo Fernandez Moroni , Simone Ferraro , Jaime Forero-Romero , Klaus Honscheid , Pat Jelinsky , Dustin Lang , Michael Levi , Paul Martini , Adam Myers , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Swayamtrupta Panda , Claire Poppett , Noah Sailer , David Schlegel , Arman Shafieloo , Joseph Silber , Martin White , Timothy Abbott , Lori Allen , Santiago Avila , Roberto Avilés , Stephen Bailey , Abby Bault , Mohamed Bouri , Konstantina Boutsia , Eienne Burtin , Fernando Chierchie , William Coulton , Kyle Dawson , Biprateep Dey , Olivier Doré , Patrick Dunlop , Daniel Eisenstein , Castorina Emanuele , Stephanie Escoffier , Juan Estrada , Parker Fagrelius , Kevin Fanning , Timothy Fanning , Andreu Font-Ribera , Joshua Frieman , Malak Galal , Vera Gluscevic , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Daniel Green , Gaston Gutierrez , Julien Guy , Kevan Hashemi , Steve Heathcote , Steve Holland , Jiamin Hou , Dragan Huterer , Blas Irigoyen Gimenez , Mikhail Ivanov , Richard Joyce , Eric Jullo , Stephanie Juneau , Claire Juramy , Armin Karcher , Stephen Kent , David Kirkby , Jean-Paul Kneib , Elisabeth Krause , Alex Krolewski , Ofer Lahav , Agustin Lapi , Alexie Leauthaud , Matthew Lewandowski , Ting Li , Kenneth Lin , Marilena Loverde , Sean MacBride , Christophe Magneville , Jennifer Marshall , Patrick McDonald , Timothy Miller , John Moustakas , Moritz Münchmeyer , Joan Najita , Jeff Newman , Will Percival , Oliver Philcox , Priscila Pires , Anand Raichoor , Brandon Roach , Constance Rockosi , Maxime Rombach , Ashley Ross , Eusebio Sanchez , Luke Schmidt , Michael Schubnell , Rebekah Sebok , Uros Seljak , Eva Silverstein , Zachay Slepian , Chris Stone , Robert Stupak , Gregory Tarlé , Ting Li , Luke Tyas , Mariana Vargas-Magaña , Alistair Walker , Nicholas Wenner , Christophe Yèche , Yuanyuan Zhang , Rongpu Zhou
This paper introduces cosmoDC2, a large synthetic galaxy catalog designed to support precision dark energy science with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). CosmoDC2 is the starting point for the second data challenge (DC2) carried…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2020-01-08
Danila Korytov , Andrew Hearin , Eve Kovacs , Patricia Larsen , Esteban Rangel , Joseph Hollowed , Andrew J. Benson , Katrin Heitmann , Yao-Yuan Mao , Anita Bahmanyar , Chihway Chang , Duncan Campbell , Joseph Derose , Hal Finkel , Nicholas Frontiere , Eric Gawiser , Salman Habib , Benjamin Joachimi , François Lanusse , Nan Li , Rachel Mandelbaum , Christopher Morrison , Jeffrey A. Newman , Adrian Pope , Eli Rykoff , Melanie Simet , Chun-Hao To , Vinu Vikraman , Risa H. Wechsler , Martin White
(Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of science will be enabled by a single wide-deep-fast sky survey, and LSST will have unique…
Astrophysics · Physics
2019-08-13
Željko Ivezić , Steven M. Kahn , J. Anthony Tyson , Bob Abel , Emily Acosta , Robyn Allsman , David Alonso , Yusra AlSayyad , Scott F. Anderson , John Andrew , James Roger P. Angel , George Z. Angeli , Reza Ansari , Pierre Antilogus , Constanza Araujo , Robert Armstrong , Kirk T. Arndt , Pierre Astier , Éric Aubourg , Nicole Auza , Tim S. Axelrod , Deborah J. Bard , Jeff D. Barr , Aurelian Barrau , James G. Bartlett , Amanda E. Bauer , Brian J. Bauman , Sylvain Baumont , Andrew C. Becker , Jacek Becla , Cristina Beldica , Steve Bellavia , Federica B. Bianco , Rahul Biswas , Guillaume Blanc , Jonathan Blazek , Roger D. Blandford , Josh S. Bloom , Joanne Bogart , Tim W. Bond , Anders W. Borgland , Kirk Borne , James F. Bosch , Dominique Boutigny , Craig A. Brackett , Andrew Bradshaw , William Nielsen Brandt , Michael E. Brown , James S. Bullock , Patricia Burchat , David L. Burke , Gianpietro Cagnoli , Daniel Calabrese , Shawn Callahan , Alice L. Callen , Srinivasan Chandrasekharan , Glenaver Charles-Emerson , Steve Chesley , Elliott C. Cheu , Hsin-Fang Chiang , James Chiang , Carol Chirino , Derek Chow , David R. Ciardi , Charles F. Claver , Johann Cohen-Tanugi , Joseph J. Cockrum , Rebecca Coles , Andrew J. Connolly , Kem H. Cook , Asantha Cooray , Kevin R. Covey , Chris Cribbs , Wei Cui , Roc Cutri , Philip N. Daly , Scott F. Daniel , Felipe Daruich , Guillaume Daubard , Greg Daues , William Dawson , Francisco Delgado , Alfred Dellapenna , Robert de Peyster , Miguel de Val-Borro , Seth W. Digel , Peter Doherty , Richard Dubois , Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann , Josef Durech , Frossie Economou , Michael Eracleous , Henry Ferguson , Enrique Figueroa , Merlin Fisher-Levine , Warren Focke , Michael D. Foss , James Frank , Michael D. Freemon , Emmanuel Gangler , Eric Gawiser , John C. Geary , Perry Gee , Marla Geha , Charles J. B. Gessner , Robert R. Gibson , D. Kirk Gilmore , Thomas Glanzman , William Glick , Tatiana Goldina , Daniel A. Goldstein , Iain Goodenow , Melissa L. Graham , William J. Gressler , Philippe Gris , Leanne P. Guy , Augustin Guyonnet , Gunther Haller , Ron Harris , Patrick A. Hascall , Justine Haupt , Fabio Hernandez , Sven Herrmann , Edward Hileman , Joshua Hoblitt , John A. Hodgson , Craig Hogan , Dajun Huang , Michael E. Huffer , Patrick Ingraham , Walter R. Innes , Suzanne H. Jacoby , Bhuvnesh Jain , Fabrice Jammes , James Jee , Tim Jenness , Garrett Jernigan , Darko Jevremović , Kenneth Johns , Anthony S. Johnson , Margaret W. G. Johnson , R. Lynne Jones , Claire Juramy-Gilles , Mario Jurić , Jason S. Kalirai , Nitya J. Kallivayalil , Bryce Kalmbach , Jeffrey P. Kantor , Pierre Karst , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Heather Kelly , Richard Kessler , Veronica Kinnison , David Kirkby , Lloyd Knox , Ivan V. Kotov , Victor L. Krabbendam , K. Simon Krughoff , Petr Kubánek , John Kuczewski , Shri Kulkarni , John Ku , Nadine R. Kurita , Craig S. Lage , Ron Lambert , Travis Lange , J. Brian Langton , Laurent Le Guillou , Deborah Levine , Ming Liang , Kian-Tat Lim , Chris J. Lintott , Kevin E. Long , Margaux Lopez , Paul J. Lotz , Robert H. Lupton , Nate B. Lust , Lauren A. MacArthur , Ashish Mahabal , Rachel Mandelbaum , Darren S. Marsh , Philip J. Marshall , Stuart Marshall , Morgan May , Robert McKercher , Michelle McQueen , Joshua Meyers , Myriam Migliore , Michelle Miller , David J. Mills , Connor Miraval , Joachim Moeyens , David G. Monet , Marc Moniez , Serge Monkewitz , Christopher Montgomery , Fritz Mueller , Gary P. Muller , Freddy Muñoz Arancibia , Douglas R. Neill , Scott P. Newbry , Jean-Yves Nief , Andrei Nomerotski , Martin Nordby , Paul O'Connor , John Oliver , Scot S. Olivier , Knut Olsen , William O'Mullane , Sandra Ortiz , Shawn Osier , Russell E. Owen , Reynald Pain , Paul E. Palecek , John K. Parejko , James B. Parsons , Nathan M. Pease , J. Matt Peterson , John R. Peterson , Donald L. Petravick , M. E. Libby Petrick , Cathy E. Petry , Francesco Pierfederici , Stephen Pietrowicz , Rob Pike , Philip A. Pinto , Raymond Plante , Stephen Plate , Paul A. Price , Michael Prouza , Veljko Radeka , Jayadev Rajagopal , Andrew P. Rasmussen , Nicolas Regnault , Kevin A. Reil , David J. Reiss , Michael A. Reuter , Stephen T. Ridgway , Vincent J. Riot , Steve Ritz , Sean Robinson , William Roby , Aaron Roodman , Wayne Rosing , Cecille Roucelle , Matthew R. Rumore , Stefano Russo , Abhijit Saha , Benoit Sassolas , Terry L. Schalk , Pim Schellart , Rafe H. Schindler , Samuel Schmidt , Donald P. Schneider , Michael D. Schneider , William Schoening , German Schumacher , Megan E. Schwamb , Jacques Sebag , Brian Selvy , Glenn H. Sembroski , Lynn G. Seppala , Andrew Serio , Eduardo Serrano , Richard A. Shaw , Ian Shipsey , Jonathan Sick , Nicole Silvestri , Colin T. Slater , J. Allyn Smith , R. Chris Smith , Shahram Sobhani , Christine Soldahl , Lisa Storrie-Lombardi , Edward Stover , Michael A. Strauss , Rachel A. Street , Christopher W. Stubbs , Ian S. Sullivan , Donald Sweeney , John D. Swinbank , Alexander Szalay , Peter Takacs , Stephen A. Tether , Jon J. Thaler , John Gregg Thayer , Sandrine Thomas , Vaikunth Thukral , Jeffrey Tice , David E. Trilling , Max Turri , Richard Van Berg , Daniel Vanden Berk , Kurt Vetter , Francoise Virieux , Tomislav Vucina , William Wahl , Lucianne Walkowicz , Brian Walsh , Christopher W. Walter , Daniel L. Wang , Shin-Yawn Wang , Michael Warner , Oliver Wiecha , Beth Willman , Scott E. Winters , David Wittman , Sidney C. Wolff , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Xiuqin Wu , Bo Xin , Peter Yoachim , Hu Zhan
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is uniquely equipped to search for Solar System bodies due to its unprecedented combination of depth and wide field coverage. Over a ten-year period starting in 2022, LSST will generate the largest…
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
2018-02-07
Megan E. Schwamb , R. Lynne Jones , Steven R. Chesley , Alan Fitzsimmons , Wesley C. Fraser , Matthew J. Holman , Henry Hsieh , Darin Ragozzine , Cristina A. Thomas , David E. Trilling , Michael E. Brown , Michele T. Bannister , Dennis Bodewits , Miguel de Val-Borro , David Gerdes , Mikael Granvik , Michael S. P. Kelley , Matthew M. Knight , Robert L. Seaman , Quan-Zhi Ye , Leslie A. Young
Combining multiple observational probes is a powerful technique to provide robust and precise constraints on cosmological parameters. In this letter, we present the first joint analysis of cluster abundances and auto/cross correlations of…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2021-04-14
C. To , E. Krause , E. Rozo , H. Wu , D. Gruen , R. H. Wechsler , T. F. Eifler , E. S. Rykoff , M. Costanzi , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , S. L. Bridle , R. Cawthon , A. Choi , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. DeRose , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Elvin-Poole , X. Fang , A. Farahi , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , W. G. Hartley , B. Hoyle , M. Jarvis , N. MacCrann , T. McClintock , V. Miranda , M. E. S. Pereira , Y. Park , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. M. Rau , A. J. Ross , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , M. A. Troxel , T. N. Varga , P. Vielzeuf , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , J. Annis , S. Avila , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. Chang , C. Conselice , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , D. Huterer , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , J. Weller , W. Wester
Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies is a powerful tool for studying cosmology and galaxy structure. The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) will revolutionize this field by discovering up to $\sim$100,000 galaxy-scale strong lenses, a…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2025-11-12
Hengyu Wu , Yun Chen , Tonghua Liu , Xiaoyue Cao , Tian Li , Hui Li , Nan Li , Ran Li , Tengpeng Xu
This white paper is the result of the Tri-Agency Working Group (TAG) appointed to develop synergies between missions and is intended to clarify what LSST observations are needed in order to maximally enhance the combined science output of…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2019-04-24
P. Capak , J-C. Cuillandre , F. Bernardeau , F. Castander , R. Bowler , C. Chang , C. Grillmair , P. Gris , T. Eifler , C. Hirata , I. Hook , B. Jain , K. Kuijken , M. Lochner , P. Oesch , S. Paltani , J. Rhodes , B. Robertson , D. Rubin , R. Scaramella , C. Scarlata , D. Scolnic , J. Silverman , S. Wachter , Y. Wang , The Tri-Agency Working Group
We present cosmological constraints from the sample of Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) discovered during the full five years of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Supernova Program. In contrast to most previous cosmological samples, in which SN are…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2025-07-22
DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Acevedo , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , P. Armstrong , J. Asorey , S. Avila , D. Bacon , B. A. Bassett , K. Bechtol , P. H. Bernardinelli , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. Brout , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , H. Camacho , R. Camilleri , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , A. Carr , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Chen , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. Crocce , T. M. Davis , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , M. Dixon , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , R. J. Foley , P. Fosalba , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , C. Frohmaier , L. Galbany , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , K. Glazebrook , O. Graur , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , N. Jeffrey , E. Kasai , L. Kelsey , S. Kent , R. Kessler , A. G. Kim , R. P. Kirshner , E. Kovacs , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , J. Lee , S. Lee , G. F. Lewis , T. S. Li , C. Lidman , H. Lin , U. Malik , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Mould , J. Muir , A. Möller , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , P. Nugent , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , Y. -C. Pan , M. Paterno , W. J. Percival , M. E. S. Pereira , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , B. Popovic , A. Porredon , J. Prat , H. Qu , M. Raveri , M. Rodríguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , B. Rose , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , M. Schubnell , D. Scolnic , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , P. Shah , J. Allyn. Smith , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. Sullivan , N. Suntzeff , M. E. C. Swanson , B. O. Sánchez , G. Tarle , G. Taylor , D. Thomas , C. To , M. Toy , M. A. Troxel , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , M. Vincenzi , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , P. Wiseman , M. Yamamoto , F. Yuan , B. Zhang , Y. Zhang
Strongly lensed Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) with an observable time delay can be used to constrain the expansion history of the Universe through time-delay cosmography (TDC). As the sample of time-delay lenses grows to statistical size,…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2025-11-25
Sydney Erickson , Martin Millon , Padmavathi Venkatraman , Tian Li , Philip Holloway , Phil Marshall , Anowar Shajib , Simon Birrer , Xiang-Yu Huang , Timo Anguita , Steven Dillmann , Narayan Khadka , Kate Napier , Aaron Roodman , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will image billions of astronomical objects in the wide-fast-deep primary survey and in a set of minisurveys including intensive observations of a group of deep drilling…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2024-11-13
Philippe Gris , Humna Awan , Matthew R. Becker , Huan Lin , Eric Gawiser , Saurabh W. Jha , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration
General Requirements on Matter Power Spectrum Predictions for Cosmology with Weak Lensing Tomography
Forthcoming projects such as DES, LSST, WFIRST, and Euclid aim to measure weak lensing shear correlations with unprecedented precision, constraining the dark energy equation of state at the percent level. Reliance on…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2015-06-03
Andrew P. Hearin , Andrew R. Zentner , Zhaoming Ma
Cluster strong lensing cosmography is a promising probe of the background geometry of the Universe and several studies have emerged, thanks to the increased quality of observations using space and ground-based telescopes. For the first…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2022-01-19
G. B. Caminha , S. H. Suyu , C. Grillo , P. Rosati
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is expected to increase known small solar system object populations by an order of magnitude or more over the next decade, enabling a broad array of transformative solar system science…
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
2019-06-28
Henry H. Hsieh , Michele T. Bannister , Bryce T. Bolin , Josef Durech , Siegfried Eggl , Wesley C. Fraser , Mikael Granvik , Michael S. P. Kelley , Matthew M. Knight , Rodrigo Leiva , Marco Micheli , Joachim Moeyens , Michael Mommert , Darin Ragozzine , Cristina A. Thomas
Cosmic surveys provide crucial information about high energy physics including strong evidence for dark energy, dark matter, and inflation. Ongoing and upcoming surveys will start to identify the underlying physics of these new phenomena,…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2016-04-27
Scott Dodelson , Katrin Heitmann , Chris Hirata , Klaus Honscheid , Aaron Roodman , Uroš Seljak , Anže Slosar , Mark Trodden
We use galaxy cluster abundance measurements from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) enhanced by Multi-Component Matched Filter (MCMF) confirmation and complemented with mass information obtained using weak-lensing data from Dark Energy Survey…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2025-03-12
A. Mazoun , S. Bocquet , J. J. Mohr , M. Garny , H. Rubira , M. Klein , L. E. Bleem , S. Grandis , T. Schrabback , M. Aguena , S. Allam , S. W. Allen , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , D. Brooks , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , S. Desai , J. De Vicente , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , S. Everett , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , R. Gassis , G. Giannini , D. Grün , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , M. Lima , G. Mahler , J. L. Marshall , R. Miquel , J. Myles , R. L. C. Ogando , M. E. S. Pereira , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , C. L. Reichardt , A. K. Romer , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Schubnell , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , A. Tamosiunas , G. Tarle , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller , P. Wiseman
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) surveys have initially been optimized to omit the inner part of the Milky Way disk/bar from deep and cadence observations. However it is now clear that the LSST will be powerful for Galactic…