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Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Redshift Calibration of the Weak Lensing Source Galaxies

Determining the distribution of redshifts of galaxies observed by wide-field photometric experiments like the Dark Energy Survey is an essential component to mapping the matter density field with gravitational lensing. In this work we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 J. Myles , A. Alarcon , A. Amon , C. Sánchez , S. Everett , J. DeRose , J. McCullough , D. Gruen , G. M. Bernstein , M. A. Troxel , S. Dodelson , A. Campos , N. MacCrann , B. Yin , M. Raveri , A. Amara , M. R. Becker , A. Choi , J. Cordero , K. Eckert , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , J. Gschwend , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , E. M. Huff , N. Kuropatkin , H. Lin , D. Masters , R. Miquel , J. Prat , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. Huterer , D. J. James , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , J. Muir , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , L. F. Secco , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , J. Weller , W. Wester

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cross-Correlation Redshifts - Methods and Systematics Characterization

We use numerical simulations to characterize the performance of a clustering-based method to calibrate photometric redshift biases. In particular, we cross-correlate the weak lensing (WL) source galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 M. Gatti , P. Vielzeuf , C. Davis , R. Cawthon , M. M. Rau , J. DeRose , J. De Vicente , A. Alarcon , E. Rozo , E. Gaztanaga , B. Hoyle , R. Miquel , G. M. Bernstein , C. Bonnett , A. Carnero Rosell , F. J. Castander , C. Chang , L. N. da Costa , D. Gruen , J. Gschwend , W. G. Hartley , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Roodman , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. A. Troxel , R. H. Wechsler , J. Asorey , T. M. Davis , K. Glazebrook , S. R. Hinton , G. Lewis , C. Lidman , E. Macaulay , A. Möller , C. R. O'Neill , N. E. Sommer , S. A. Uddin , F. Yuan , B. Zhang , T. M. C. Abbott , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , D. A. Goldstein , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , J. K. Hoormann , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , K. Reil , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. C. Wolf

A Unified Framework for Constructing, Tuning and Assessing Photometric Redshift Density Estimates in a Selection Bias Setting

Photometric redshift estimation is an indispensable tool of precision cosmology. One problem that plagues the use of this tool in the era of large-scale sky surveys is that the bright galaxies that are selected for spectroscopic observation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-18 Peter E. Freeman , Rafael Izbicki , Ann B. Lee

Supernova Simulations and Strategies For the Dark Energy Survey

We present an analysis of supernova light curves simulated for the upcoming Dark Energy Survey (DES) supernova search. The simulations employ a code suite that generates and fits realistic light curves in order to obtain distance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 J. P. Bernstein , R. Kessler , S. Kuhlmann , R. Biswas , E. Kovacs , G. Aldering , I. Crane , C. B. D'Andrea , D. A. Finley , J. A. Frieman , T. Hufford , M. J. Jarvis , A. G. Kim , J. Marriner , P. Mukherjee , R. C. Nichol , P. Nugent , D. Parkinson , R. R. R. Reis , M. Sako , H. Spinka , M. Sullivan

Validation of Emission-Line Galaxies Target Selection Algorithms for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Using the MMT Binospec

The forthcoming Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) experiment plans to measure the effects of dark energy on the expansion of the Universe and create a $3$D map of the Universe using galaxies up to $z \sim 1.6$ and QSOs up to $z…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-12 Tanveer Karim , Jae H. Lee , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Etienne Burtin , John Moustakas , Anand Raichoor , Christophe Yèche

Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS)

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will execute a nearly magnitude-limited survey of low redshift galaxies ($0.05 \leq z \leq 0.4$, median $z \approx 0.2$). Clustering analyses of this Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) will yield the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-23 Omar Ruiz-Macias , Pauline Zarrouk , Shaun Cole , Peder Norberg , Carlton Baugh , David Brooks , Arjun Dey , Yutong Duan , Sarah Eftekharzadeh , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Enrique Gaztañaga , ChangHoon Hahn , Robert Kehoe , Martin Landriau , Dustin Lang , Michael E. Levi , John Lucey , Aaron M. Meisner , John Moustakas , Adam D. Myers , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Claire Poppett , Francisco Prada , Anand Raichoor , David J. Schlegel , Michael Schubnell , Gregory Tarlé , David H. Weinberg , M. J. Wilson , Christophe Yèche

A case study for measuring the relativistic dipole of a galaxy cross-correlation with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

The data on spectroscopic galaxy clustering collected by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will allow the significant detection of subtle features in the galaxy two-point correlation in redshift space, beyond the "standard"…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-19 Camille Bonvin , Francesca Lepori , Sebastian Schulz , Isaac Tutusaus , Julian Adamek , Pablo Fosalba

The Dark Energy Survey: Cosmology Results With ~1500 New High-redshift Type Ia Supernovae Using The Full 5-year Dataset

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

Catalog-level blinding on the bispectrum for DESI-like galaxy surveys

We evaluate the performance of the catalog-level blind analysis technique (blinding) presented in Brieden et al. (2020) in the context of a fixed template power spectrum and bispectrum analysis. This blinding scheme, which is tailored for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-28 S. Novell-Masot , H. Gil-Marín , L. Verde , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Brieden , D. Brooks , T. Claybaugh , A. de la Macorra , J. E. Forero-Romero , E. Gaztañaga , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , C. Howlett , R. Kehoe , T. Kisne , A. Lamber , M. E. Levi , M. Manera , A. Meisner , R. Miquel , G. Niz , F. Prada , G. Rossi , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , D. Sprayberry , G. Tarlé , B. A. Weaver

Evaluating Cosmological Biases using Photometric Redshifts for Type Ia Supernova Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program

Cosmological analyses with Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) have traditionally been reliant on spectroscopy for both classifying the type of supernova and obtaining reliable redshifts to measure the distance-redshift relation. While obtaining a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-25 R. Chen , D. Scolnic , M. Vincenzi , E. S. Rykoff , J. Myles , R. Kessler , B. Popovic , M. Sako , M. Smith , P. Armstrong , D. Brout , T. M. Davis , L. Galbany , J. Lee , C. Lidman , A. Möller , B. O. Sánchez , M. Sullivan , H. Qu , P. Wiseman , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , D. Bacon , D. Brooks , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , A. Choi , C. Conselice , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , M. Lima , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Roodman , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , C. To , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller

Unraveling the Universe with DESI

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is a stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment planned to begin operations in 2020. In this article, we provided a short review of DESI presented during the conference {\it Recontres de…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-08 Mariana Vargas-Magana , David D. Brooks , Michael M. Levi , Gregory G. Tarle

Photometric redshifts for the Pan-STARRS1 survey

We present a robust method to estimate the redshift of galaxies using Pan-STARRS1 photometric data. Our method is an adaptation of the one proposed by Beck et al. (2016) for the SDSS Data Release 12. It uses a training set of 2313724…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Paula Tarrío , Stefano Zarattini

SpecPT (Spectroscopy Pre-trained Transformer) Model for Extragalactic Spectroscopy: I. Architecture and Automated Redshift Measurement

We introduce the Spectroscopy Pre-trained Transformer (SpecPT), a transformer-based model designed to analyze spectroscopic data, with applications in spectrum reconstruction and redshift measurement. Using the Early Data Release (EDR) of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-12 Rohan Pattnaik , Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe , Clive Binu

Data-driven, interpretable photometric redshifts trained on heterogeneous and unrepresentative data

We present a new method for inferring photometric redshifts in deep galaxy and quasar surveys, based on a data driven model of latent spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and a physical model of photometric fluxes as a function of redshift.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Boris Leistedt , David W. Hogg

The Dark Energy Survey 5-year photometrically identified Type Ia Supernovae

As part of the cosmology analysis using Type Ia Supernovae (SN Ia) in the Dark Energy Survey (DES), we present photometrically identified SN Ia samples using multi-band light-curves and host galaxy redshifts. For this analysis, we use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 A. Möller , M. Smith , M. Sako , M. Sullivan , M. Vincenzi , P. Wiseman , P. Armstrong , J. Asorey , D. Brout , D. Carollo , T. M. Davis , C. Frohmaier , L. Galbany , K. Glazebrook , L. Kelsey , R. Kessler , G. F. Lewis , C. Lidman , U. Malik , R. C. Nichol , D. Scolnic , B. E. Tucker , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. March , J. L. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga

DESI Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation (DC3R2): Results from early DESI data

We present initial results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Complete Calibration of the Color-Redshift Relation (DC3R2) secondary target survey. Our analysis uses 230k galaxies that overlap with KiDS-VIKING $ugriZYJHK_s$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 J. McCullough , D. Gruen , A. Amon , A. Roodman , D. Masters , A. Raichoor , D. Schlegel , R. Canning , F. J. Castander , J. DeRose , R. Miquel , J. Myles , J. A. Newman , A. Slosar , J. Speagle , M. J. Wilson , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Bailey , D. Brooks , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , K. Dawson , A. de la Macorra , P. Doel , J. E. Forero-Romero , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , J. Guy , R. Kehoe , A. Kremin , M. Landriau , L. Le Guillou , M. Levi , M. Manera , P. Martini , A. Meisner , J. Moustakas , J. Nie , W. J. Percival , C. Poppett , F. Prada , M. Rezaie , G. Rossi , E. Sanchez , H. Seo , G. Tarlé , B. A. Weaver , Z. Zhou , H. Zou

Measuring the Universe with galaxy redshift surveys

Galaxy redshift surveys are one of the pillars of the current standard cosmological model and remain a key tool in the experimental effort to understand the origin of cosmic acceleration. To this end, the next generation of surveys aim at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-30 L. Guzzo , J. Bel , D. Bianchi , C. Carbone , B. R. Granett , A. J. Hawken , F. G. Mohammad , A. Pezzotta , S. Rota , M. Zennaro

Design and analysis of redshift surveys

In this paper we consider methods of analysis and optimal design of redshift surveys. In the first part, we develop a formalism for analysing galaxy redshift surveys which are essentially two-dimensional, such as thin declination slices.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. F. Heavens , A. N. Taylor

DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey -- Fundamental Plane

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Peculiar Velocity Survey aims to measure the peculiar velocities of early and late type galaxies within the DESI footprint using both the Fundamental Plane and optical Tully-Fisher relations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-01 Khaled Said , Cullan Howlett , Tamara Davis , John Lucey , Christoph Saulder , Kelly Douglass , Alex G. Kim , Anthony Kremin , Caitlin Ross , Greg Aldering , Jessica Nicole Aguilar , Steven Ahlen , Segev BenZvi , Davide Bianchi , David Brooks , Todd Claybaugh , Kyle Dawson , Axel de la Macorra , Biprateep Dey , Peter Doel , Kevin Fanning , Simone Ferraro , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Enrique Gaztañaga , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Julien Guy , Klaus Honscheid , Robert Kehoe , Theodore Kisner , Andrew Lambert , Martin Landriau , Laurent Le Guillou , Marc Manera , Aaron Meisner , Ramon Miquel , John Moustakas , Andrea Muñoz-Gutiérrez , Adam Myers , Jundan Nie , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Will Percival , Francisco Prada , Graziano Rossi , Eusebio Sanchez , David Schlegel , Michael Schubnell , Joseph Harry Silber , David Sprayberry , Gregory Tarlé , Mariana Vargas Magana , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Risa Wechsler , Zhimin Zhou , Hu Zou

Estimating Spectroscopic Redshifts by Using k Nearest Neighbors Regression I. Description of Method and Analysis

Context: In astronomy, new approaches to process and analyze the exponentially increasing amount of data are inevitable. While classical approaches (e.g. template fitting) are fine for objects of well-known classes, alternative techniques…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-08 S. D. Kügler , K. Polsterer , M. Hoecker