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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 VIRMOS-VLT Deep Survey

The aim of the VIRMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) is to study of the evolution of galaxies, large scale structures and AGNs from a sample of more than 150,000 galaxies with measured redshifts in the range 0<z<5+. The VVDS will rely on the VIMOS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 O. Le Fèvre , G. Vettolani , D. Maccagni , D. Mancini , A. Mazure , Y. Mellier , J. P. Picat , M. Arnaboldi , S. Bardelli , E. Bertin , G. Busarello , A. Cappi , S. Charlot , G. Chincarini , S. Colombi , B. Garilli , L. Guzzo , A. Iovino , V. Le Brun , M. Longhetti , G. Mathez , P. Merluzzi , H. J. McCracken , R. Pellò , L. Pozzetti , M. Radovich , V. Ripepi , P. Saracco , R. Scaramella , M. Scodeggio , L. Tresse , G. Zamorani , E. Zucca

The CHILES Continuum \& Polarization Survey-I: Survey Design \& Noise Characterization

We introduce and describe the CHILES Continuum \& Polarization (CHILES Con Pol) Survey, a 1000 hour 1.4 GHz wideband full polarization radio continuum deepfield with the Very Large Array (VLA), commensurate with the CHILES HI deepfield. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-30 Nicholas M. Luber , Min S. Yun , Hansung B. Gim , Daniel Krista-Kelsey , D. J. Pisano , Emmanuel Momjian , Chris Hales

The Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey. I. Overview and Atlas of Optical Images

The Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey (CGS) is a long-term program to investigate the photometric and spectroscopic properties of a statistically complete sample of 605 bright (B_T < 12.9 mag), southern (Dec. < 0) galaxies using the facilities…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Luis C. Ho , Zhao-Yu Li , Aaron J. Barth , Marc S. Seigar , Chien Y. Peng

A New Radio Continuum Survey of the Sky at 1465 MHz between declinations -52 degrees and +68 degrees

We have mapped the total sky brightness at 1465 MHz in two adjacent 60-degree declination bands with the portable 5.5-m parabolic reflector of the Galactic Emission Mapping (GEM) project, an on-going international collaboration to survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Tello , T. Villela , G. F. Smoot , S. Torres , M. Bersanelli

A search for faint resolved galaxies beyond the Milky Way in DES Year 6: A new faint, diffuse dwarf satellite of NGC 55

We report results from a systematic wide-area search for faint dwarf galaxies at heliocentric distances from 0.3 to 2 Mpc using the full six years of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Unlike previous searches over the DES data, this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-06 M. McNanna , K. Bechtol , S. Mau , E. O. Nadler , J. Medoff , A. Drlica-Wagner , W. Cerny , D. Crnojevic , B. Mutlu-Pakdil , A. K. Vivas , A. B. Pace , J. L. Carlin , M. L. M. Collins , P. S. Ferguson , D. Martinez-Delgado , C. E. Martinez-Vazquez , N. E. D. Noel , A. H. Riley , D. J. Sand , A. Smercina , E. Tollerud , R. H. Wechsler , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , O. Alves , D. Bacon , C. R. Bom , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. A. Carballo-Bello , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , J. Frieman , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , G. Gutierrez , R. A. Gruendl , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernandez , R. Miquel , M. E. S. Pereira , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagon , J. D. Sakowska , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , B. Santiago , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , G. S. Stringfellow , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , N. Weaverdyck , P. Wiseman

DESAlert: Enabling Real-Time Transient Follow-Up with Dark Energy Survey Data

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is currently undertaking an observational program imaging $1/4$ of the southern hemisphere sky with unprecedented photometric accuracy. In the process of observing millions of faint stars and galaxies to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-05 A. Poci , K. Kuehn , the DES Collaboration , : , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , A. H. Bauer , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , P. J. Brown , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Covarrubias , L. N. da Costa , C. B. D'Andrea , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , C. E Cunha , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , D. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , K. Honscheid , D. James , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. March , J. Marshall , K. W. Merritt , C. J. Miller , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla , C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , R. C. Thomas , D. Tucker , A. R. Walker , W. Wester

The Simons Observatory: Design, integration, and testing of the small aperture telescopes

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment that includes small-aperture telescopes (SATs) observing from an altitude of 5,200 m in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The SO SATs will cover six spectral…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-13 Nicholas Galitzki , Tran Tsan , Jake Spisak , Michael Randall , Max Silva-Feaver , Joseph Seibert , Jacob Lashner , Shunsuke Adachi , Sean M. Adkins , Thomas Alford , Kam Arnold , Peter C. Ashton , Jason E. Austermann , Carlo Baccigalupi , Andrew Bazarko , James A. Beall , Sanah Bhimani , Bryce Bixler , Gabriele Coppi , Lance Corbett , Kevin D. Crowley , Kevin T. Crowley , Samuel Day-Weiss , Simon Dicker , Peter N. Dow , Cody J. Duell , Shannon M. Duff , Remington G. Gerras , John C. Groh , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Kathleen Harrington , Masaya Hasegawa , Erin Healy , Shawn W. Henderson , Johannes Hubmayr , Jeffrey Iuliano , Bradley R. Johnson , Brian Keating , Ben Keller , Kenji Kiuchi , Anna M. Kofman , Brian J. Koopman , Akito Kusaka , Adrian T. Lee , Richard A. Lew , Lawrence T. Lin , Michael J Link , Tammy J. Lucas , Marius Lungu , Aashrita Mangu , Jeffrey J McMahon , Amber D. Miller , Jenna E. Moore , Magdy Morshed , Hironobu Nakata , Federico Nati , Laura B. Newburgh , David V. Nguyen , Michael D. Niemack , Lyman A. Page , Kana Sakaguri , Yuki Sakurai , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Lauren J. Saunders , Jordan E. Shroyer , Junna Sugiyama , Osamu Tajima , Atsuto Takeuchi , Refilwe Tanah Bua , Grant Teply , Tomoki Terasaki , Joel N. Ullom , Jeffrey L. Van Lanen , Eve M. Vavagiakis , Michael R Vissers , Liam Walters , Yuhan Wang , Zhilei Xu , Kyohei Yamada , Kaiwen Zheng

UltraVISTA: a new ultra-deep near-infrared survey in COSMOS

In this paper we describe the first data release of the UltraVISTA near-infrared imaging survey of the COSMOS field. We summarise the key goals and design of the survey and provide a detailed description of our data reduction techniques .…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-28 H. J. McCracken , B. Milvang-Jensen , J. Dunlop , M. Franx , J. P. U. Fynbo , O. Le Fèvre , J. Holt , K. I. Caputi , Y. Goranova , F. Buitrago , J. Emerson , W. Freudling , P. Hudelot , C. López-Sanjuan , F. Magnard , Y. Mellier , P. Møller , K. K. Nilsson , W. Sutherland , L. Tasca , J. Zabl

Survey for Emission-Line Galaxies: Universidad Complutense de Madrid List 3

A new low-dispersion objective-prism search for low-redshift (z<0.045) emission-line galaxies (ELG) has been carried out by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with the Schmidt Telescope at the Calar-Alto Observatory. This is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Alonso , C. E. Garcia-Dabo , J. Zamorano , J. Gallego , M. Rego

Deep Full-sky Coadds from Three Years of WISE and NEOWISE Observations

We have reprocessed over 100 terabytes of single-exposure WISE/NEOWISE images to create the deepest ever full-sky maps at 3-5 microns. We incorporate all publicly available W1 and W2 imaging - a total of ~8 million exposures in each band -…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 A. M. Meisner , D. Lang , D. J. Schlegel

Target Selection and Validation of DESI Emission Line Galaxies

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will precisely constrain cosmic expansion and the growth of structure by collecting $\sim$40 million extra-galactic redshifts across $\sim$80\% of cosmic history and one third of the sky. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 A. Raichoor , J. Moustakas , Jeffrey A. Newman , T. Karim , S. Ahlen , Shadab Alam , S. Bailey , D. Brooks , K. Dawson , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , A. Dey , Biprateep Dey , G. Dhungana , S. Eftekharzadeh , D. J. Eisenstein , K. Fanning , A. Font-Ribera , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , J. Guy , K. Honscheid , M. Ishak , R. Kehoe , T. Kisner , A. Kremin , Ting-Wen Lan , M. Landriau , L. Le Guillou , Michael E. Levi , C. Magneville , P. Martini , Aaron M. Meisner , Adam D. Myers , Jundan Nie , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , W. J. Percival , C. Poppett , F. Prada , A. J. Ross , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , C. G. Sabiu , E. F. Schlafly , D. Schlegel , Gregory Tarle , B. A. Weaver , Christophe Yeche , Rongpu Zhou , Zhimin Zhou , H. Zou

Blanco DECam Bulge Survey (BDBS) V. Cleaning the foreground populations from Galactic bulge colour-magnitude diagrams using Gaia EDR3

The Blanco DECam Bulge Survey (BDBS) has imaged more than 200 square degrees of the southern Galactic bulge, providing photometry in the ugrizy filters for $\sim 250$ million unique stars. The presence of a strong foreground disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-17 Tommaso Marchetti , Christian I. Johnson , Meridith Joyce , R. Michael Rich , Iulia Simion , Michael D. Young , William I. Clarkson , Catherine A. Pilachowski , Scott Michael , Andrea Kunder , Andreas J. Koch-Hansen

The MDW H{\alpha} Sky Survey: Data Release 1

The Mittelman-di Cicco-Walker (MDW) H$\alpha$ Sky Survey is an autonomously-operated all-sky narrow-band (3nm) H$\alpha$ imaging survey. The survey was founded by amateur astronomers and the northern sky (Decl. $\geq$ 0$^\circ$) is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Noor Aftab , Xunhe , Zhang , Sean Walker , Dennis di Cicco , David R. Mittelman , Sanya Gupta , Andrew K. Saydjari , Mary Putman , David Schiminovich

The First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 square degrees of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of galaxies, quasars, stars and calibrating blank…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-27 The SDSS collaboration , Kevork Abazajian

Cosmic Voids and Void Lensing in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data

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

The Dark Energy Survey Six-Year Calibration Star Catalog

This Technical Note presents a catalog of calibrated reference stars that was generated by the Forward Calibration Method (FGCM) pipeline (arXiv:1706.01542) as part of the FGCM photometric calibration of the full Dark Energy Survey (DES)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-04 E. S. Rykoff , D. L. Tucker , D. L. Burke , S. S. Allam , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , D. Brout , R. A. Gruendl , J. Lasker , J. A. Smith , W. C. Wester , B. Yanny , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , A. Choi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , J. Myles , B. D. Nord , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , M. Raveri , M. Rodgríguez-Monroy , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , T. N. Varga , M. Vincenzi , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck , P. Wiseman

The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey: The spectroscopic measurements catalogue

VANDELS is a deep spectroscopic survey, performed with the VIMOS instrument at VLT, aimed at studying in detail the physical properties of high-redshift galaxies. VANDELS targeted about 2100 sources at 1<z<6.5 in the CANDELS Chandra…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-04 M. Talia , C. Schreiber , B. Garilli , L. Pentericci , L. Pozzetti , G. Zamorani , F. Cullen , M. Moresco , A. Calabrò , M. Castellano , J. P. U. Fynbo , L. Guaita , F. Marchi , S. Mascia , R. McLure , M. Mignoli , E. Pompei , E. Vanzella , A. Bongiorno , G. Vietri , R. O. Amorín , M. Bolzonella , A. C. Carnall , A. Cimatti , G. Cresci , S. Cristiani , O. Cucciati , J. S. Dunlop , F. Fontanot , P. Franzetti , A. Gargiulo , M. L. Hamadouche , N. P. Hathi , P. Hibon , A. Iovino , A. M. Koekemoer , F. Mannucci , D. J. McLeod , A. Saldana-Lopez

GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky Murchison Widefield Array (GLEAM) survey I: A low-frequency extragalactic catalogue

Using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), the low-frequency Square Kilometre Array (SKA1 LOW) precursor located in Western Australia, we have completed the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA (GLEAM) survey, and present the resulting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-15 Natasha Hurley-Walker , Joseph R. Callingham , Paul J. Hancock , Thomas M. O. Franzen , Luke Hindson , Anna D. Kapinska , John Morgan , Andre R. Offringa , Randall B. Wayth , Chen Wu , Q. Zheng , Tara Murphy , Martin E. Bell , K. S. Dwarakanath , Bi-Qing For , Bryan M. Gaensler , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Emil Lenc , Pietro Procopio , Lister Staveley-Smith , Ron Ekers , Judd D. Bowman , Frank Briggs , R. J. Cappallo , Avinash A. Deshpande , Lincoln Greenhill , Brynah J. Hazelton , David L. Kaplan , Colin J. Lonsdale , S. R. McWhirter , Daniel A. Mitchell , Miguel F. Morales , Edward Morgan , Divya Oberoi , Stephen M. Ord , T. Prabu , N. Udaya Shankar , K. S. Srivani , Ravi Subrahmanyan , Steven J. Tingay , Rachel L. Webster , Andrew Williams , Christopher L. Williams

The VLT Survey Telescope ATLAS

The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) ATLAS is an optical ugriz survey aiming to cover ~4700deg^2 of the Southern sky to similar depths as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). From reduced images and object catalogues provided by the Cambridge…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-20 T. Shanks , N. Metcalfe , B. Chehade , J. R. Findlay , M. J. Irwin , E. Gonzalez-Solares , J. R. Lewis , A. Kupcu Yoldas , R. G. Mann , M. A. Read , E. T. W. Sutorius , S. Voutsinas