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The past few decades have seen the burgeoning of wide field, high cadence surveys, the most formidable of which will be the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to be conducted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. So new is the field of…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2021-01-27
J. R. Mullaney , L. Makrygianni , V. Dhillon , S. Littlefair , K. Ackley , M. Dyer , J. Lyman , K. Ulaczyk , R. Cutter , Y. L. Mong , D. Steeghs , D. K. Galloway , P. O'Brien , G. Ramsay , S. Poshyachinda , R. Kotak , L. Nuttall , E. Pallé , D. Pollacco , E. Thrane , S. Aukkaravittayapun , S. Awiphan , R. Breton , U. Burhanudin , P. Chote , A. Chrimes , E. Daw , C. Duffy , R. Eyles-Ferris , B. Gompertz , T. Heikkilä , P. Irawati , M. Kennedy , T. Killestein , A. Levan , T. Marsh , D. Mata-Sanchez , S. Mattila , J. Maund , J. McCormac , D. Mkrtichian , E. Rol , U. Sawangwit , E. Stanway , R. Starling , S. Tooke , K. Wiersema
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to start the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) in early to mid-2025. This multi-band wide-field synoptic survey will transform our view of the solar system, with the discovery and monitoring of…
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
2023-05-31
Megan E. Schwamb , R. Lynne Jones , Peter Yoachim , Kathryn Volk , Rosemary C. Dorsey , Cyrielle Opitom , Sarah Greenstreet , Tim Lister , Colin Snodgrass , Bryce T. Bolin , Laura Inno , Michele T. Bannister , Siegfried Eggl , Michael Solontoi , Michael S. P. Kelley , Mario Jurić , Hsing Wen Lin , Darin Ragozzine , Pedro H. Bernardinelli , Steven R. Chesley , Tansu Daylan , Josef Ďurech , Wesley C. Fraser , Mikael Granvik , Matthew M. Knight , Carey M. Lisse , Renu Malhotra , William J. Oldroyd , Audrey Thirouin , Quanzhi Ye
Cosmology is one of the four science pillars of LSST, which promises to be transformative for our understanding of dark energy and dark matter. The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) has been tasked with deriving constraints on…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2018-12-17
Michelle Lochner , Daniel M. Scolnic , Humna Awan , Nicolas Regnault , Philippe Gris , Rachel Mandelbaum , Eric Gawiser , Husni Almoubayyed , Christian N. Setzer , Simon Huber , Melissa L. Graham , Renée Hložek , Rahul Biswas , Tim Eifler , Daniel Rothchild , Tarek Allam , Jonathan Blazek , Chihway Chang , Thomas Collett , Ariel Goobar , Isobel M. Hook , Mike Jarvis , Saurabh W. Jha , Alex G. Kim , Phil Marshall , Jason D. McEwen , Marc Moniez , Jeffrey A. Newman , Hiranya V. Peiris , Tanja Petrushevska , Jason Rhodes , Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe , Anže Slosar , Sherry H. Suyu , J. Anthony Tyson , Peter Yoachim
Many science cases for wide-field time-domain surveys rely on accurate identification and characterization of the galaxies hosting transient and variable objects. In the era of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the Vera C. Rubin…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2025-03-03
Charlotte Ward , Peter Melchior , Matt L. Sampson , Colin J. Burke , Jared Siegel , Benjamin Remy , Sufia Birmingham , Emily Ramey , Sjoert van Velzen
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
In 2021 May the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration began a 5-year spectroscopic redshift survey to produce a detailed map of the evolving three-dimensional structure of the universe between $z=0$ and $z\approx4$.…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2026-03-06
DESI Collaboration , M. Abdul Karim , A. G. Adame , D. Aguado , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Alam , G. Aldering , D. M. Alexander , R. Alfarsy , L. Allen , C. Allende Prieto , O. Alves , A. Anand , U. Andrade , E. Armengaud , S. Avila , A. Aviles , H. Awan , S. Bailey , A. Baleato Lizancos , O. Ballester , A. Bault , J. Bautista , R. Bean , J. Behera , S. BenZvi , L. Beraldo e Silva , J. R. Bermejo-Climent , F. Beutler , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , R. Blum , A. S. Bolton , M. Bonici , S. Brieden , A. Brodzeller , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , E. Burtin , A. Byström , R. Canning , A. Carnero Rosell , A. Carr , P. Carrilho , L. Casas , F. J. Castander , R. Cereskaite , J. L. Cervantes-Cota , E. Chaussidon , J. Chaves-Montero , S. Chen , X. Chen , C. Circosta , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. P. Cooper , M. -C. Cousinou , A. Cuceu , T. M. Davis , K. S. Dawson , R. de Belsunce , R. de la Cruz , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , N. Deiosso , J. Della Costa , R. Demina , U. Demirbozan , J. DeRose , A. Dey , B. Dey , J. Ding , Z. Ding , P. Doel , K. Douglass , M. Dowicz , H. Ebina , J. Edelstein , D. J. Eisenstein , W. Elbers , N. Emas , S. Escoffier , P. Fagrelius , X. Fan , K. Fanning , G. Favole , V. A. Fawcett , E. Fernández-García , S. Ferraro , N. Findlay , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Forero-Romero , D. Forero-Sánchez , C. S. Frenk , B. T. Gänsicke , L. Galbany , J. García-Bellido , C. Garcia-Quintero , L. H. Garrison , E. Gaztañaga , H. Gil-Marín , A. Gloudemans , O. Y. Gnedin , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , D. Gonzalez , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , V. Gonzalez-Perez , C. Gordon , O. Graur , D. Green , D. Gruen , R. Gsponer , C. Guandalin , G. Gutierrez , J. Guy , C. Hahn , J. J. Han , J. Han , S. He , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , S. Heydenreich , K. Honscheid , J. Hou , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , V. Iršič , M. Ishak , A. Jacques , L. Jiang , J. Jimenez , Y. P. Jing , B. Joachimi , S. Joudaki , R. Joyce , E. Jullo , S. Juneau , N. G. Karaçaylı , T. Karim , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , A. Khederlarian , D. Kirkby , T. Kisner , F. -S. Kitaura , N. Kizhuprakkat , H. Kong , S. E. Koposov , A. Kremin , A. Krolewski , O. Lahav , Y. Lai , C. Lamman , T. -W. Lan , M. Landriau , D. Lang , J. U. Lange , J. Lasker , J. M. Le Goff , L. Le Guillou , A. Leauthaud , M. E. Levi , S. Li , T. S. Li , W. Liu , K. Lodha , M. Lokken , Y. Luo , Y. Luo , C. Magneville , M. Manera , C. J. Manser , D. Margala , P. Martini , M. Maus , J. McCullough , P. McDonald , G. E. Medina , L. Medina-Varela , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , A. Menegas , J. Meneses-Rizo , M. Mezcua , R. Miquel , P. Montero-Camacho , J. Moon , J. Moustakas , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , D. Muñoz-Santos , A. D. Myers , J. Myles , S. Nadathur , J. Najita , L. Napolitano , J. A. Newman , F. Nikakhtar , R. Nikutta , G. Niz , H. E. Noriega , P. Nugent , N. Padmanabhan , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , A. Palmese , J. Pan , Z. Pan , D. Parkinson , J. A. Peacock , M. P. Ibanez , W. J. Percival , A. Pérez-Fernández , I. Pérez-Ràfols , P. Peterson , J. Piat , M. M. Pieri , M. Pinon , C. Poppett , A. Porredon , F. Prada , R. Pucha , F. Qin , D. Rabinowitz , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , S. Ramirez-Solano , M. Rashkovetskyi , C. Ravoux , B. Ried Guachalla , A. H. Riley , A. Rocher , C. Rockosi , J. Rohlf , A. J. Rosado-Marín , A. J. Ross , C. Ross , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , C. G. Sabiu , K. Said , N. Sailer , A. Saintonge , Y. Salcedo Hernandez , L. Samushia , E. Sanchez , N. Sanders , N. Sandford , S. Satyavolu , C. Saulder , A. K. Saydjari , E. F. Schlafly , D. Schlegel , D. Scholte , M. Schubnell , A. Semenaite , H. Seo , A. Shafieloo , R. Sharples , J. Silber , F. Sinigaglia , M. Siudek , Z. Slepian , A. Smith , M. Soumagnac , D. Sprayberry , J. Suárez-Pérez , J. Swanson , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , P. Taylor , G. Thomas , R. Tojeiro , R. J. Turner , W. Turner , L. A. Ureña-López , R. Vaisakh , M. Valluri , G. Valogiannis , M. Vargas-Magaña , L. Verde , P. Vielzeuf , M. Walther , B. Wang , M. S. Wang , W. Wang , B. A. Weaver , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , D. H. Weinberg , M. White , A. Whitford , M. Wolfson , J. Yang , C. Yèche , S. Youles , J. Yu , S. Yuan , E. A. Zaborowski , P. Zarrouk , H. Zhang , C. Zhao , R. Zhao , Z. Zheng , C. Zhou , R. Zhou , Y. Zhou , H. Zou , S. Zou , Y. Zu
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a large-aperture, wide-field, ground-based survey system that will image the sky in six optical bands from 320 to 1050 nm, uniformly covering approximately $18,000$deg$^2$ of the sky over 800…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2019-08-14
Mario Jurić , Jeffrey Kantor , K-T Lim , Robert H. Lupton , Gregory Dubois-Felsmann , Tim Jenness , Tim S. Axelrod , Jovan Aleksić , Roberta A. Allsman , Yusra AlSayyad , Jason Alt , Robert Armstrong , Jim Basney , Andrew C. Becker , Jacek Becla , Steven J. Bickerton , Rahul Biswas , James Bosch , Dominique Boutigny , Matias Carrasco Kind , David R. Ciardi , Andrew J. Connolly , Scott F. Daniel , Gregory E. Daues , Frossie Economou , Hsin-Fang Chiang , Angelo Fausti , Merlin Fisher-Levine , D. Michael Freemon , Perry Gee , Philippe Gris , Fabio Hernandez , Joshua Hoblitt , Željko Ivezić , Fabrice Jammes , Darko Jevremović , R. Lynne Jones , J. Bryce Kalmbach , Vishal P. Kasliwal , K. Simon Krughoff , Dustin Lang , John Lurie , Nate B. Lust , Fergal Mullally , Lauren A. MacArthur , Peter Melchior , Joachim Moeyens , David L. Nidever , Russell Owen , John K Parejko , J. Matt Peterson , Donald Petravick , Stephen R. Pietrowicz , Paul A. Price , David J. Reiss , Richard A. Shaw , Jonathan Sick , Colin T. Slater , Michael A. Strauss , Ian S. Sullivan , John D. Swinbank , Schuyler Van Dyk , Veljko Vujčić , Alexander Withers , Peter Yoachim
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
In order to retrieve cosmological parameters from photometric surveys, we need to estimate the distribution of the photometric redshift in the sky with excellent accuracy. We use and apply three different machine learning methods to…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2025-11-13
Elcio Abdalla , Filipe B. Abdalla , Alessandro Marins , Amilcar Queiroz , Rafael M. Ribeiro , Alex S. C. Souza
Establishing that Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a flagship dark matter experiment is an essential pathway toward understanding the physical nature of dark matter. In the past two decades, wide-field astronomical surveys and terrestrial…
High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics
2022-03-15
Yao-Yuan Mao , Annika H. G. Peter , Susmita Adhikari , Keith Bechtol , Simeon Bird , Simon Birrer , Jonathan Blazek , Jeffrey L. Carlin , Nushkia Chamba , Johann Cohen-Tanugi , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Tansu Daylan , Birendra Dhanasingham , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Cora Dvorkin , Christopher Fassnacht , Eric Gawiser , Maurizio Giannotti , Vera Gluscevic , Alma Gonzalez-Morales , Renee Hlozek , M. James Jee , Stacy Kim , Akhtar Mahmood , Rachel Mandelbaum , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Marc Moniez , Ethan O. Nadler , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , J. Anthony Tyson , Risa H. Wechsler , Hai-Bo Yu , Gabrijela Zaharijas
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will advance many areas of astronomy over the next decade with its unique wide-fast-deep multi-color imaging survey, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The LSST will produce approximately 20TB of raw…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2022-07-01
Leanne P. Guy , Keith Bechtol , Jeffrey L. Carlin , Erik Dennihy , Peter S. Ferguson , K. Simon Krughoff , Robert H. Lupton , Colin T. Slater , Krzysztof Findeisen , Arun Kannawadi , Lee S. Kelvin , Nate B. Lust , Lauren A. MacArthur , Michael N. Martinez , Sophie L. Reed , Dan S. Taranu , W. Michael Wood-Vasey
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 10-Year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is expected to produce a hundredfold increase in the number of transients we observe. However, there are insufficient spectroscopic resources to follow up on all…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2025-12-05
Dylan Magill , Matt Nicholl , Vysakh Anilkumar , Sjoert van Velzen , Xinyue Sheng , Thai Son Mai , Hung Viet Tran , Ngoc Phu Doan , Thomas Moore , Shubham Srivastav , David R. Young , Charlotte R. Angus , Joshua Weston
Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a ground-based astronomical facility under construction, a joint project of the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, designed to conduct a multi-purpose 10-year optical survey of the…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2022-01-05
Federica B. Bianco , Željko Ivezić , R. Lynne Jones , Melissa L. Graham , Phil Marshall , Abhijit Saha , Michael A. Strauss , Peter Yoachim , Tiago Ribeiro , Timo Anguita , Franz E. Bauer , Eric C. Bellm , Robert D. Blum , William N. Brandt , Sarah Brough , Màrcio Catelan , William I. Clarkson , Andrew J. Connolly , Eric Gawiser , John Gizis , Renee Hlozek , Sugata Kaviraj , Charles T. Liu , Michelle Lochner , Ashish A. Mahabal , Rachel Mandelbaum , Peregrine McGehee , Eric H. Neilsen , Knut A. G. Olsen , Hiranya Peiris , Jason Rhodes , Gordon T. Richards , Stephen Ridgway , Megan E. Schwamb , Dan Scolnic , Ohad Shemmer , Colin T. Slater , Anže Slosar , Stephen J. Smartt , Jay Strader , Rachel Street , David E. Trilling , Aprajita Verma , A. K. Vivas , Risa H. Wechsler , Beth Willman
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
Galaxies and their dark matter halos populate a complicated filamentary network around large, nearly empty regions known as cosmic voids. Cosmic voids are usually identified in spectroscopic galaxy surveys, where 3D information about the…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2016-10-28
C. Sánchez , J. Clampitt , A. Kovacs , B. Jain , J. García-Bellido , S. Nadathur , D. Gruen , N. Hamaus , D. Huterer , P. Vielzeuf , A. Amara , C. Bonnett , J. DeRose , W. G. Hartley , M. Jarvis , O. Lahav , R. Miquel , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sheldon , R. H. Wechsler , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , J. Annis , A. Benoit-Lévy , G. M. Bernstein , R. A. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , E. Gaztanaga , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , A. A. Plazas , K. Reil , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , A. R. Walker , J. Weller
We present Rubin Data Preview 1 DP1, the first data from the NSF DOE Vera C Rubin Observatory, comprising raw and calibrated single epoch images, coadds, difference images, detection catalogs, and ancillary data products. DP1 is based on…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2026-03-26
Vera C Rubin Observatory Team , Tatiana Acero Cuellar , Emily Acosta , Christina L Adair , Prakruth Adari , Jennifer K Adelman McCarthy , Anastasia Alexov , Russ Allbery , Robyn Allsman , Yusra AlSayyad , Jhonatan Amado , Nathan Amouroux , Pierre Antilogus , Alexis Aracena Alcayaga , Gonzalo Aravena Rojas , Claudio H Araya Cortes , Eric Aubourg , Tim S Axelrod , John Banovetz , Carlos Barria , Amanda E Bauer , Brian J Bauman , Ellen Bechtol , Keith Bechtol , Andrew C Becker , Valerie R Becker , Mark G Beckett , Eric C Bellm , Pedro H Bernardinelli , Federica Bettina Bianco , Robert D Blum , Joanne Bogart , Adam Bolton , Michael T Booth , James F Bosch , Alexandre Boucaud , Dominique Boutigny , Robert A Bovill , Andrew Bradshaw , Johan Bregeon , Massimo Brescia , Brian J Brondel , Alexander Broughton , Audrey Budlong , Dimitri Buffat , Rodolfo Canestrari , Neven Caplar , Jeffrey L Carlin , Ross Ceballo , Colin Orion Chandler , Chihway Chang , Glenaver Charles Emerson , Hsin Fang Chiang , James Chiang , Yumi Choi , Eric J Christensen , Charles F Claver , Andy W Clements , Joseph J Cockrum , Johann Cohen Tanugi , Franco Colleoni , Celine Combet , Andrew J Connolly , Julio Eduardo Constanzo Cordova , Hans E Contreras , John Franklin Crenshaw , Sylvie Dagoret Campagne , Scott F Daniel , Felipe Daruich , Guillaume Daubard , Greg Daues , Erik Dennihy , Stephanie J H Deppe , Seth W Digel , Peter E Doherty , Cyrille Doux , Alex Drlica Wagner , Gregory P Dubois Felsmann , Frossie Economou , Orion Eiger , Lukas Eisert , Alan M Eisner , Anthony Englert , Baden Erb , Juan A Fabrega , Parker Fagrelius , Kevin Fanning , Angelo Fausti Neto , Peter S Ferguson , Agnes Ferte , Krzysztof Findeisen , Merlin Fisher Levine , Gloria Fonseca Alvarez , Michael D Foss , Dominique Fouchez , Dan C Fuchs , Shenming Fu , Emmanuel Gangler , Igor Gaponenko , Julen Garcia , John H Gates , Ranpal K Gill , Enrico Giro , Thomas Glanzman , Robinson Godoy , Iain Goodenow , Miranda R Gorsuch , Michelle Gower , Melissa L Graham , Mikael Granvik , Sarah Greenstreet , Wen Guan , Thibault Guillemin , Leanne P Guy , Diane Hascall , Patrick A Hascall , Aren Nathaniel Heinze , Fabio Hernandez , Kenneth Herner , Ardis Herrold , Clare R Higgs , Joshua Hoblitt , Erin Leigh Howard , Minhee Hyun , Amanda Ibsen , Patrick Ingraham , David H Irving , Zeljko Ivezic , Suzanne H Jacoby , Buell T Jannuzi , Sreevani Jarugula , M James Jee , Tim Jenness , Toby C Jennings , Andrea Jeremie , Garrett Jernigan , David Jimenez Mejias , Anthony S Johnson , R Lynne Jones , Roger William Lewis Jones , Claire Juramy Gilles , Mario Juric , Steven M Kahn , J Bryce Kalmbach , Yijung Kang , Arun Kannawadi , Jeffrey P Kantor , Edward Karavakis , Kshitija Kelkar , Lee S Kelvin , Scot J Kleinman , Ivan V Kotov , Gabor Kovacs , Mikolaj Kowalik , Victor L Krabbendam , K Simon Krughoff , Petr Kubanek , Jacob A Kurlander , Mile Kusulja , Craig S Lage , Paulo J A Lago , Katherine Laliotis , Travis Lange , Didier Laporte , Ryan M Lau , Juan Carlos Lazarte , Quentin Le Boulch , Pierre Francois Leget , Laurent Le Guillou , Benjamin Levine , Ming Liang , Shuang Liang , Kian Tat Lim , Anja von der Linden , Huan Lin , Margaux Lopez , Juan J Lopez Toro , Peter Love , Robert H Lupton , Nate B Lust , Lauren A MacArthur , Sean Patrick MacBride , Greg M Madejski , Gabriele Mainetti , Steven J Margheim , Thomas W Markiewicz , Phil Marshall , Stuart Marshall , Guido Maulen , Sidney Mau , Morgan May , Jeremy McCormick , David McKay , Robert McKercher , Guillem Megias Homar , Aaron M Meisner , Felipe Menanteau , Heather R Mentzer , Kristen Metzger , Joshua E Meyers , Michelle Miller , David J Mills , Joachim Moeyens , Marc Moniez , Fred E Moolekamp , C A L Morales Marin , Fritz Mueller , James R Mullaney , Freddy Munoz Arancibia , Kate Napier , Homer Neal , Eric H Neilsen , Jeremy Neveu , Timothy Noble , Erfan Nourbakhsh , Knut Olsen , William OMullane , Dmitry Onoprienko , Marco Oriunno , Shawn Osier , Russell E Owen 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In recent years, the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model, which has been pivotal in cosmological studies, has faced significant challenges due to emerging observational and theoretical inconsistencies. This paper explores alternative…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2025-02-04
Dharmendra Kumar , Ayan Mitra , Shahnawaz A. Adil , Anjan A. Sen
The Dark Sky Simulations are an ongoing series of cosmological N-body simulations designed to provide a quantitative and accessible model of the evolution of the large-scale Universe. Such models are essential for many aspects of the study…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2014-07-10
Samuel W. Skillman , Michael S. Warren , Matthew J. Turk , Risa H. Wechsler , Daniel E. Holz , P. M. Sutter
Galactic science encompasses a wide range of subjects in the study of the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds, from Young Stellar Objects to X-ray Binaries. Mapping these populations, and exploring transient phenomena within them, are among the…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2023-07-19
R. A. Street , X. Li , S. Khakpash , E. Bellm , L. Girardi , L. Jones , N. S. Abrams , Y. Tsapras , M. P. G. Hundertmark , E. Bachelet , P. Gandhi , P. Szkody , W. I. Clarkson , R. Szabo , L. Prisinzano , R. Bonito , D. A. H. Buckley , J. P. Marais , R. Di Stefano
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