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Joint Efficient Dark-energy Investigation (JEDI): a Candidate Implementation of the NASA-DOE Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM)

JEDI will probe dark energy in three independent ways by measuring the expansion history of the universe: (1) using type Ia supernovae as cosmological standard candles over a range of distances, (2) using baryon oscillations as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Arlin Crotts , Peter Garnavich , William Priedhorsky , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Yun Wang , Eddie Baron , David Branch , Harvey Moseley , Alexander Kutyrev , Chris Blake , Edward Cheng , Ian Dell'Antonio , John Mackenty , Gordon Squires , Max Tegmark , Craig Wheeler , Ned Wright

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: A 2.7% measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillation distance scale at redshift 0.835

We present angular diameter measurements obtained by measuring the position of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in an optimised sample of galaxies from the first three years of Dark Energy Survey data (DES Y3). The sample consists of 7…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-21 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Asorey , S. Avila , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , A. Brandao-Souza , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Calcino , H. Camacho , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , K. C. Chan , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , X. Fang , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , K. Glazebrook , D. Gomes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , N. Kokron , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , G. F. Lewis , C. Lidman , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , U. Malik , P. Martini , P. Melchior , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Möller , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , W. J. Percival , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , M. A. Troxel , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , I. Tutusaus , S. A. Uddin , T. N. Varga , J. Weller , R. D. Wilkinson

Beyond dark energy Fisher forecasts: how DESI will constrain LCDM and quintessence models

We baseline with current cosmological observations to forecast the power of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in two ways: 1. the gain in constraining power of parameter combinations in the standard $\Lambda$CDM model, and 2.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Samuel Goldstein , Minsu Park , Marco Raveri , Bhuvnesh Jain , Lado Samushia

The Data Processing Pipeline for the MUSE Instrument

Processing of raw data from modern astronomical instruments is nowadays often carried out using dedicated software, so-called "pipelines" which are largely run in automated operation. In this paper we describe the data reduction pipeline of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Peter M. Weilbacher , Ralf Palsa , Ole Streicher , Roland Bacon , Tanya Urrutia , Lutz Wisotzki , Simon Conseil , Bernd Husemann , Aurélien Jarno , Andreas Kelz , Arlette Pécontal-Rousset , Johan Richard , Martin M. Roth , Fernando Selman , Joël Vernet

The DECADE cosmic shear project II: photometric redshift calibration of the source galaxy sample

We present the photometric redshift characterization and calibration for the Dark Energy Camera All Data Everywhere (DECADE) weak lensing dataset: a catalog of 107 million galaxies observed by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) in the northern…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 D. Anbajagane , A. Alarcon , R. Teixeira , C. Chang , L. F. Secco , C. Y. Tan , A. Drlica-Wagner , M. Adamow , R. A. Gruendl , G. Giannini , M. R. Becker , P. S. Ferguson , N. Chicoine , Z. Zhang , K. Herron , D. Suson , A. N. Alsina , A. Amon , C. R. Bom , J. A. Carballo-Bello , W. Cerny , A. Choi , Y. Choi , C. Doux , K. Eckert , M. Gatti , D. Gruen , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , E. M. Huff , D. J. James , N. Kuropatkin , C. E. Martínez-Vázquez , P. Massana , S. Mau , J. McCullough , G. E. Medina , B. Mutlu-Pakdil , J. Myles , M. Navabi , N. E. D. Noël , A. B. Pace , M. Raveri , A. H. Riley , J. D. Sakowska , D. Sanchez-Cid , D. J. Sand , L. Santana-Silva , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Soares-Santos , G. S. Stringfellow , A. K. Vivas , M. Yamamoto

Extensive analysis of reconstruction algorithms for DESI 2024 baryon acoustic oscillations

Reconstruction of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal has been a standard procedure in BAO analyses over the past decade and has helped to improve the BAO parameter precision by a factor of ~2 on average. The Dark Energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 X. Chen , Z. Ding , E. Paillas , S. Nadathur , H. Seo , S. Chen , N. Padmanabhan , M. White , A. de Mattia , P. McDonald , A. J. Ross , A. Variu , A. Carnero Rosell , B. Hadzhiyska , M. M. S Hanif , D. Forero-Sánchez , S. Ahlen , O. Alves , U. Andrade , S. BenZvi , D. Bianchi , D. Brooks , E. Chaussidon , T. Claybaugh , A. de la Macorra , Biprateep Dey , K. Fanning , S. Ferraro , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Forero-Romero , C. Garcia-Quintero , E. Gaztañaga , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , G. Gutierrez , C. Hahn , K. Honscheid , S. Juneau , R. Kehoe , D. Kirkby , T. Kisner , A. Kremin , M. E. Levi , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. Moustakas , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , F. Nikakhtar , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , W. J. Percival , F. Prada , I. Pérez-Ràfols , M. Rashkovetskyi , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , E. Sanchez , C. Saulder , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , A. Smith , D. Sprayberry , G. Tarlé , D. Valcin , M. Vargas-Magaña , B. A. Weaver , S. Yuan , R. Zhou

Near-Infrared Galaxy Surveys in 2D, 3D & 4D

The completeness and reliability of the DENIS IJK survey and the EDSGC (derived from the COSMOS scans of USKT plates) are obtained by detailed cross-identifications and systematic visual inspections of conflictual classifications. The DENIS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. A. Mamon

The Difference Imaging Pipeline for the Transient Search in the Dark Energy Survey

We describe the difference imaging pipeline (DiffImg) used to detect transients in deep images from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova program (DES-SN) in its first observing season from Aug 2013 through Feb 2014. DES-SN is a search for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 R. Kessler , J. Marriner , M. Childress , R. Covarrubias , C. B. D'Andrea , D. A. Finley , J. Fischer , R. J. Foley , D. Goldstein , R. R. Gupta , K. Kuehn , M. Marcha , R. C. Nichol , A. Papadopoulos , M. Sako , D. Scolnic , M. Smith , M. Sullivan , W. Wester , F. Yuan , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , A. Benoit-Levy , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , F. J. Castander , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , T. F. Eifler , A. Fausti Neto , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , R. C. Thomas , D. Tucker , A. R. Walker

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Deep Field Optical + Near-Infrared Images and Catalogue

We describe the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Deep Fields, a set of images and associated multi-wavelength catalogue ($ugrizJHKs$) built from Dark Energy Camera (DECam) and Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) data. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-17 W. G. Hartley , A. Choi , A. Amon , R. A. Gruendl , E. Sheldon , I. Harrison , G. M. Bernstein , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , B. Yanny , K. Eckert , H. T. Diehl , A. Alarcon , M. Banerji , K. Bechtol , R. Buchs , S. Cantu , C. Conselice , J. Cordero , C. Davis , T. M. Davis , S. Dodelson , A. Drlica-Wagner , S. Everett , A. Ferté , D. Gruen , K. Honscheid , M. Jarvis , M. D. Johnson , N. Kokron , N. MacCrann , J. Myles , A. B. Pace , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , M. E. S. Pereira , A. A. Plazas , J. Prat , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , L. F. Secco , F. Tarsitano , A. Tong , M. A. Troxel , Z. Vasquez , K. Wang , C. Zhou , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , D. Huterer , D. J. James , S. Kent , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , E. Neilsen , R. L. C. Ogando , S. Pandey , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , A. R. Walker , W. Wester , R. D. Wilkinson , J. Zuntz

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 SPHEREx Image and Spectrophotometry Processing Pipeline

In this paper, we describe the SPHEREx image and spectrophotometry data processing pipeline, an infrastructure and software system designed to produce calibrated spectral images and photometric measurements for NASA's SPHEREx mission.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Rachel Akeson , Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann , Brendan P. Crill , Andreas L. Faisst , Tamim Fatahi , Candice M. Fazar , Tatiana Goldina , Daniel C. Masters , Christina Nelson , Roberta Paladini , Harry I. Teplitz , Gabriela Torrini , Phani Velicheti , Matthew L. N. Ashby , Dan Avner , Yoonsoo P. Bach , James J. Bock , Sean Bruton , Sean A. Bryan , Tzu-Ching Chang , Shuang-Shuang Chen , Ari J. Cukierman , O. Dore , C. Darren Dowell , Spencer Everett , Richard M. Feder , Zhaoyu Huai , Howard Hui , Woong-Seob Jeong , Young-Soo Jo , Phil M. Korngut , Yuna G. Kwon , Bomee Lee , Gary J. Melnick , Giulia Murgia , Chi H. Nguyen , Milad Pourrahmani , Zafar Rustamkulov , Volker Tolls , Pao-Yu Wang , Yujin Yang , Michael Zemcov

Quintessential interpretation of the evolving dark energy in light of DESI

The recent result of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in combination with other cosmological data shows evidence of the evolving dark energy parameterized by $w_0w_a$CDM model. We interpret this result in terms of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Yuichiro Tada , Takahiro Terada

DESI Strong Lens Foundry II: DESI Spectroscopy for Strong Lens Candidates

We present the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Strong Lensing Secondary Target Program. This is a spectroscopic follow-up program for strong gravitational lens candidates found in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys footprint.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Xiaosheng Huang , Jose Carlos Inchausti , Christopher J. Storfer , S. Tabares-Tarquinio , J. Moustakas , W. Sheu , S. Agarwal , M. Tamargo-Arizmendi , D. J. Schlegel , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , G. Aldering , S. Bailey , S. Banka , S. BenZvi , D. Bianchi , A. Bolton , D. Brooks , A. Cikota , T. Claybaugh , K. S. Dawson , A. de la Macorra , A. Dey , P. Doel , J. Edelstein , J. E. Forero-Romero , E. Gaztanaga , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , A. Gu , K. Honscheid , M. Ishak , S. Juneau , R. Kehoe , T. Kisner , S. E. Koposov , K. J. Kwon , A. Lambert , M. Landriau , D. Lang , L. Le Guillou , M. E. Levi , J. Liu , A. Meisner , R. Miquel , A. D. Myers , S. Perlmutter , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , I. Perez-Rafols , C. Poppett , F. Prada , G. Rossi , D. Rubin , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , Y. Shu , E. Silver , D. Sprayberry , N. Suzuki , G. Tarle , B. A. Weaver , H. Zou

The synergy between the Dark Energy Survey and the South Pole Telescope

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) has recently completed the Science Verification phase (SV), collecting data over 150 sq. deg. of sky. In this work we analyze to what extent it is beneficial to supplement the analysis of DES data with CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-22 Alberto Vallinotto

PEPSI: The high-resolution echelle spectrograph and polarimeter for the Large Binocular Telescope

PEPSI is the bench-mounted, two-arm, fibre-fed and stabilized Potsdam Echelle Polarimetric and Spectroscopic Instrument for the 2x8.4 m Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). Three spectral resolutions of either 43 000, 120 000 or 270 000 can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 K. G. Strassmeier , I. Ilyin , A. Järvinen , M. Weber , M. Woche , S. I. Barnes , S. -M. Bauer , E. Beckert , W. Bittner , R. Bredthauer , T. A. Carroll , C. Denker , F. Dionies , I. DiVarano , D. Döscher , T. Fechner , D. Feuerstein , T. Granzer , T. Hahn , G. Harnisch , A. Hofmann , M. Lesser , J. Paschke , S. Pankratow , V. Plank , D. Plüschke , E. Popow , D. Sablowski , J. Storm

Overview of the data acquisition system architecture for the DarkSide-20k experiment

The DarkSide-20k (DS-20k) detector is designed to directly search for dark matter by detecting weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) scattering off nuclei in a 20 tonnes target of low radioactivity Argon from underground sources, in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-24 Maria Adriana Sabia

The Joint Efficient Dark-energy Investigation (JEDI): Measuring the cosmic expansion history from type Ia supernovae

JEDI (Joint Efficient Dark-energy Investigation) is a candidate implementation of the NASA-DOE Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM). JEDI will probe dark energy in three independent methods: (1) type Ia supernovae, (2) baryon acoustic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. M. Phillips , Peter Garnavich , Yun Wang , David Branch , Edward Baron , Arlin Crotts , J. Craig Wheeler , Edward Cheng , Mario Hamuy

Apercal -- The Apertif Calibration Pipeline

Apertif (APERture Tile In Focus) is one of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) pathfinder facilities. The Apertif project is an upgrade to the 50-year-old Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) using phased-array feed technology. The new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 B. Adebahr , R. Schulz , T. J. Dijkema , V. A. Moss , A. R. Offringa , A. Kutkin , J. M. van der Hulst , B. S. Frank , N. P. E. Vilchez , J. Verstappen , E. K. Adams , W. J. G. de Blok , H. Denes , K. M. Hess , D. Lucero , R. Morganti , T. Oosterloo , D. -J. Pisano , M. V. Ivashina , W. A. van Cappellen , L. D. Connor , A. H. W. M. Coolen , S. Damstra , G. M. Loose , Y. Maan , F. M. Maccagni , A. Mika , H. Mulder , L. C. Oostrum , E. Orru , R. Smits , D. van der Schuur , J. van Leeuwen , D. Vohl , S. J. Wijnholds , J. Ziemke

Consistency tests between SDSS and DESI BAO measurements

In this work, we investigate whether the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from redshift surveys, like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), are consistent with each other. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-10 Basundhara Ghosh , Carlos Bengaly

First Detection of the BAO Signal from Early DESI Data

We present the first detection of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signal obtained using unblinded data collected during the initial two months of operations of the Stage-IV ground-based Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-11 Jeongin Moon , David Valcin , Michael Rashkovetskyi , Christoph Saulder , Jessica Nicole Aguilar , Steven Ahlen , Shadab Alam , Stephen Bailey , Charles Baltay , Robert Blum , David Brooks , Etienne Burtin , Edmond Chaussidon , Kyle Dawson , Axel de la Macorra , Arnaud de Mattia , Govinda Dhungana , Daniel Eisenstein , Brenna Flaugher , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Cristhian Garcia-Quintero , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Julien Guy , Malik Muhammad Sikandar Hanif , Klaus Honscheid , Mustapha Ishak , Robert Kehoe , Sumi Kim , Theodore Kisner , Anthony Kremin , Martin Landriau , Laurent Le Guillou , Michael Levi , Marc Manera , Paul Martini , Patrick McDonald , Aaron Meisner , Ramon Miquel , John Moustakas , Adam Myers , Seshadri Nadathur , Richard Neveux , Jeffrey A. Newman , Jundan Nie , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Will Percival , Alejandro Pérez Fernández , Claire Poppett , Francisco Prada , Anand Raichoor , Ashley J. Ross , Graziano Rossi , Lado Samushia , David Schlegel , Hee-Jong Seo , Gregory Tarlé , Mariana Vargas Magana , Andrei Variu , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Martin J. White , Christophe Yèche , Sihan Yuan , Cheng Zhao , Rongpu Zhou , Zhimin Zhou , Hu Zou