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We present the methods and results from the discovery and photometric measurement of 26 bright (VR $>$ 24 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) during the first year (2019-20) of the DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP). The DEEP survey is an…

We describe the first public data release of the Dark Energy Survey, DES DR1, consisting of reduced single epoch images, coadded images, coadded source catalogs, and associated products and services assembled over the first three years of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , A. Amara , J. Annis , J. Asorey , S. Avila , O. Ballester , M. Banerji , W. Barkhouse , L. Baruah , M. Baumer , K. Bechtol , M . R. Becker , A. Benoit-Lévy , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. Brout , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , V. Busti , R. Campisano , L. Cardiel-Sas , A. C arnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , X. Chen , C. Conselice , G. Costa , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , R. Das , G. Daues , T. M. Davis , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , J. DeRose , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Elliott , A. E. Evrard , A. Farahi , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , D. A. Finley , M. Fitzpatrick , B. Flaugher , R. J. Foley , P. Fosalba , D. N. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaz tanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , M. S. S. Gill , K. Glazebrook , D. A. Goldstein , M. Gower , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , R. R. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , S. Hamilton , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , J. M. Hislop , D. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , S. Juneau , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , G. Khullar , M. Klein , A. Kovacs , A. M. G. Koziol , E. Krause , A. Kremin , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , J. Lasker , T. S. Li , R. T. Li , A. R. Liddle , M. Lima , H. Lin , P. López-Reyes , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , J. D. Maloney , M. Manera , M. March , J. Marriner , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , T. McClintock , T. McKay , R . G. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Morganson , J. Mould , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , D. Nidever , R. Nikutta , F. Nogueira , B. Nord , P. Nugent , L. Nunes , R. L. C. Ogando , L. Old , K. Olsen , A. B. Pace , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , H. V. Peiris , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas , J. Poh , C. Pond , A. Por redon , A. Pujol , A. Refregier , K. Reil , P. M. Ricker , R. P. Rollins , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , P. Rooney , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , M. L. Sanchez , B. Santiago , A. Saro , V. Scarpine , D. Scolnic , A. Scott , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , N. Shipp , M. L. Silveira , R. C. Smith , J. A. Smith , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobre ira , J. Song , A. Stebbins , E. Suchyta , M. Sullivan , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , R. C. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. K. Vivas , A. R. Wal ker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. C. Wolf , H. Wu , B. Yanny , A. Zenteno , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

We present here the DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP), a three year NOAO/NOIRLab Survey that was allocated 46.5 nights to discover and measure the properties of thousands of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) to magnitudes as faint as…

We have used the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the CTIO Blanco 4-m telescope to perform a new emission-line survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using narrow-band H-alpha and [SII] filters in addition to a continuum band for use in…

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…

Large mosaic multiCCD camera is the key instrument for modern digital sky survey. DECam is an extremely red sensitive 520 Megapixel camera designed for the incoming Dark Energy Survey (DES). It is consist of sixty two 4k$\times$2k and…

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…

DEEP is a multi-institutional program designed to undertake a major spectroscopic survey of 10,000+ field galaxies to I ~ 23 with a new instrument (DEIMOS) on the Keck II 10-m telescope. The scientific goals include exploring galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David C. Koo

DECal is a new calibration system for the CTIO 4 m Blanco telescope. It is currently being installed as part of the Dark Energy Survey and will provide both broadband flat fields and narrowband (about 1 nm bandwidth) spectrophotometric…

We report the discovery of six ultra-faint Milky Way satellites discovered through matched-filter searches conducted using Dark Energy Camera (DECam) data processed as part of the second data release of the DECam Local Volume Exploration…

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a 5000 sq deg griz imaging survey to be conducted using a proposed 3 sq deg (2.2deg-diameter) wide-field mosaic camera on the CTIO Blanco 4m telescope. The primary scientific goal of the DES is to constrain…

We present a Field of Streams visualizing stellar structures in the Milky Way halo as viewed by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam). We use $g$- and $r$-band imaging from the Dark Energy Survey and the DECam Legacy Survey, covering $18{,}700…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-09 Peter Ferguson , Nora Shipp

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public-private enterprise, is a new time domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope with a 47 deg$^2$ field of view and 8 second readout time. It is well…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Matthew J. Graham , S. R. Kulkarni , Eric C. Bellm , Scott M. Adams , Cristina Barbarino , Nadejda Blagorodnova , Dennis Bodewits , Bryce Bolin , Patrick R. Brady , S. Bradley Cenko , Chan-Kao Chang , Michael W. Coughlin , Kishalay De , Gwendolyn Eadie , Tony L. Farnham , Ulrich Feindt , Anna Franckowiak , Christoffer Fremling , Avishay Gal-yam , Suvi Gezari , Shaon Ghosh , Daniel A. Goldstein , V. Zach Golkhou , Ariel Goobar , Anna Y. Q. Ho , Daniela Huppenkothen , Zeljko Ivezic , R. Lynne Jones , Mario Juric , David L. Kaplan , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Michael S. P. Kelley , Thomas Kupfer , Chien-De Lee , Hsing Wen Lin , Ragnhild Lunnan , Ashish A. Mahabal , Adam A. Miller , Chow-Choong Ngeow , Peter Nugent , Eran O. Ofek , Thomas A. Prince , Ludwig Rauch , Jan van Roestel , Steve Schulze , Leo P. Singer , Jesper Sollerman , Francesco Taddia , Lin Yan , Quan-Zhi Ye , Po-Chieh Yu , Igor Andreoni , Tom Barlow , James Bauer , Ron Beck , Justin Belicki , Rahul Biswas , Valery Brinnel , Tim Brooke , Brian Bue , Mattia Bulla , Kevin Burdge , Rick Burruss , Andrew Connolly , John Cromer , Virginia Cunningham , Richard Dekany , Alex Delacroix , Vandana Desai , Dmitry A. Duev , Eugean Hacopians , David Hale , George Helou , John Henning , David Hover , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Justin Howell , Tiara Hung , David Imel , Wing-Huen Ip , Edward Jackson , Shai Kaspi , Stephen Kaye , Marek Kowalski , Emily Kramer , Michael Kuhn , Walter Landry , Russ R. Laher , Peter Mao , Frank J. Masci , Serge Monkewitz , Patrick Murphy , Jakob Nordin , Maria T. Patterson , Bryan Penprase , Michael Porter , Umaa Rebbapragada , Dan Reiley , Reed Riddle , Mickael Rigault , Hector Rodriguez , Ben Rusholme , Jakob van Santen , David L. Shupe , Roger M. Smith , Maayane T. Soumagnac , Robert Stein , Jason Surace , Paula Szkody , Scott Terek , Angela van Sistine , Sjoert van Velzen , W. Thomas Vestrand , Richard Walters , Charlotte Ward , Chaoran Zhang , Jeffry Zolkower

We introduce a pipeline that performs rapid image subtraction and source selection to detect transients, with a focus on identifying gravitational wave optical counterparts using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam). In this work, we present the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-27 Shenming Fu , Thomas Matheson , Aaron Meisner , Yuanyuan Zhang , Sebastián Vicencio , Destry Saul

I present results from a deep 12 micron extragalactic survey conducted with the ISOCAM instrument. The survey covers about 0.1 sq. deg. in four fields and reaches a 5 sigma flux limit of about 500 microJy. 50 sources are identified to this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. L. Clements

The DECam Rogue Earths and Mars Survey (DREAMS), a NOIRLab survey program, has been conducting a three-year survey covering a 5\,deg$^2$ area in the Galactic bulge since 2025 June. Its primary science goal is to detect low-mass…

This paper presents ground-based data obtained from deep optical and infrared observations carried out at the ESO 3.5 New Technology Telescope (NTT) of a field selected for its low HI content for deep observations with AXAF. These data were…

We present the second public data release of the Dark Energy Survey, DES DR2, based on optical/near-infrared imaging by the Dark Energy Camera mounted on the 4-m Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. DES DR2…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Adamow , M. Aguena , S. Allam , A. Amon , J. Annis , S. Avila , D. Bacon , M. Banerji , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , L. Gelman , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , M. Gill , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. D. Johnson , S. Kent , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , C. Lidman , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , T. Manning , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , J. Myles , E. Neilsen , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas , C. Pond , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , J. Allyn. Smith , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , P. E. Tremblay , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , D. J Turner , T. N. Varga , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. D. Wilkinson , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang , R. Nikutta , M. Fitzpatrick , A. Jacques , A. Scott , K. Olsen , L. Huang , D. Herrera , S. Juneau , D. Nidever , B. A. Weaver , C. Adean , V. Correia , M. de Freitas , F. N. Freitas , C. Singulani , G. Vila-Verde