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Survey2Survey: A deep learning generative model approach for cross-survey image mapping

During the last decade, there has been an explosive growth in survey data and deep learning techniques, both of which have enabled great advances for astronomy. The amount of data from various surveys from multiple epochs with a wide range…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-08 Brandon Buncher , Awshesh Nath Sharma , Matias Carrasco Kind

First Results from the La Silla-QUEST Supernova Survey and the Carnegie Supernova Project

The LaSilla/QUEST Variability Survey (LSQ) and the Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP II) are collaborating to discover and obtain photometric light curves for a large sample of low redshift (z < 0.1) Type Ia supernovae. The supernovae are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-30 E. S. Walker , C. Baltay , A. Campillay , C. Citrenbaum , C. Contreras , N. Ellman , U. Feindt , C. Gonzalez , M. L. Graham , E. Hadjiyska , E. Y. Hsiao , K. Krisciunas , R. McKinnon , K. Ment , N. Morrell , P. Nugent , M. Phillips , D. Rabinowitz , S. Rostami , J. Seron , M. Stritzinger , M. Sullivan , B. E. Tucker

Towards Precision Photometric Type Ia Supernova Cosmology with Machine Learning

The revolutionary discovery of dark energy and accelerating cosmic expansion was made with just 42 type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in 1999. Since then, large synoptic surveys, e.g., Dark Energy Survey (DES), have observed thousands more SNe Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-10 Helen Qu

A 16 deg$^2$ survey of emission-line galaxies at z<1.5 in HSC-SSP PDR1

We present initial results from the Subaru Strategic Program (SSP) with Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) on a comprehensive survey of emission-line galaxies at z<1.5 based on narrowband (NB) imaging. The first Public Data Release (PDR1) provides us…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 Masao Hayashi , Masayuki Tanaka , Rhythm Shimakawa , Hisanori Furusawa , Rieko Momose , Yusei Koyama , John D. Silverman , Tadayuki Kodama , Yutaka Komiyama , Alexie Leauthaud , Yen-Ting Lin , Satoshi Miyazaki , Tohru Nagao , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Masami Ouchi , Takatoshi Shibuya , Ken-ichi Tadaki , Kiyoto Yabe

Dwarf AGNs from Optical Variability for the Origins of Seeds (DAVOS): Insights from the Dark Energy Survey Deep Fields

We present a sample of 706, $z < 1.5$ active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selected from optical photometric variability in three of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) deep fields (E2, C3, and X3) over an area of 4.64 deg$^2$. We construct light curves…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-31 Colin J. Burke , Xin Liu , Yue Shen , Kedar A. Phadke , Qian Yang , Will G. Hartley , Ian Harrison , Antonella Palmese , Hengxiao Guo , Kaiwen Zhang , Richard Kron , David J. Turner , Paul A. Giles , Christopher Lidman , Yu-Ching Chen , Robert A. Gruendl , Ami Choi , Alexandra Amon , Erin Sheldon , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. Gruen , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , K. Reil , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , R. D. Wilkinson , DES Collaboration

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

Deep drilling in the time domain with DECam II: characterizing the light curves of candidates in the extragalactic fields

In this second paper on the DECam deep drilling field (DDF) program we release 2,020 optical gri-band light curves for transients and variables in the extragalactic COSMOS and ELAIS fields based on time series observations with a 3-day…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-12 Melissa L. Graham , Midori Rollins , Robert A. Knop , Suhail Dhawan , Gloria Fonseca Alvarez , Christopher A. Phillips , Guy Nir , Emily Ramey , Peter E. Nugent

SNLS: Overview and High-z Spectroscopy

The Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS; http://cfht.hawaii.edu/SNLS) will discover and obtain g'r'i'z' lightcurves for more than 700 spectroscopically confirmed SNe Ia (0.3<z<0.9) to differentiate between competing models for Dark Energy. We fit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 D. Andrew Howell

Tests of Evolving Dark Energy with Geometric Probes of the Late-Time Universe

Recent results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) have shown a strong statistical preference for a time-evolving dark energy model over $\Lambda$CDM when combining BAO, CMB, and supernova (SN) data. We investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-02 Kunhao Zhong , Bhuvnesh Jain

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Cosmic Shear

We use 26 million galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 shape catalogs over 1321 deg$^2$ of the sky to produce the most significant measurement of cosmic shear in a galaxy survey to date. We constrain cosmological parameters in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 M. A. Troxel , N. MacCrann , J. Zuntz , T. F. Eifler , E. Krause , S. Dodelson , D. Gruen , J. Blazek , O. Friedrich , S. Samuroff , J. Prat , L. F. Secco , C. Davis , A. Ferté , J. DeRose , A. Alarcon , A. Amara , E. Baxter , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , S. L. Bridle , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , A. Choi , J. De Vicente , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Frieman , M. Gatti , W. G. Hartley , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , B. Jain , M. Jarvis , T. Kacprzak , D. Kirk , N. Kokron , C. Krawiec , O. Lahav , A. R. Liddle , J. Peacock , M. M. Rau , A. Refregier , R. P. Rollins , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , A. Stebbins , T. N. Varga , P. Vielzeuf , M. Wang , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. A. Goldstein , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , S. Kent , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , Y. Zhang

Studying the Ultraviolet Spectrum of the First Spectroscopically Confirmed Supernova at redshift two

We present observations of DES16C2nm, the first spectroscopically confirmed hydrogen-free superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) at redshift z~2. DES16C2nm was discovered by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Supernova Program, with follow-up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-21 M. Smith , M. Sullivan , R. C. Nichol , L. Galbany , C. B. D'Andrea , C. Inserra , C. Lidman , A. Rest , M. Schirmer , A. V. Filippenko , W. Zheng , S. Bradley Cenko , C. R. Angus , P. J. Brown , T. M. Davis , D. A. Finley , S. Gonzalez-Gaitan , C. P. Gutierrez , R. Kessler , S. Kuhlmann , J. Marriner , A. Moller , P. E. Nugent , S. Prajs , R. Thomas , R. Wolf , A. Zenteno , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Levy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. A. Goldstein , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , M. W. G. Johnson , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miguel , R. L. C. Ogando , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , A. R. Walker

COSMIC-S: a photometric Catalogue of Observed Stars in the Small MagellanIc Cloud

The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) is a wide-field instrument mounted on the 4m V. Blanco Telescope (CTIO). Its impressive technical characteristics makes it one of the most suitable ground-based telescope for the production of accurate stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-06 A. Franco , A. A. Nucita , F. De Paolis , F. Strafella

The Deep SPIRE HerMES Survey: Spectral Energy Distributions and their Astrophysical Indications at High Redshift

The Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) on Herschel has been carrying out deep extragalactic surveys, one of whose aims is to establish spectral energy distributions (SED)s of individual galaxies spanning the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 D. Brisbin , M. Harwit , B. Altieri , A. Amblard , V. Arumugam , H. Aussel , T. Babbedge , A. Blain , J. Bock , A. Boselli , V. Buat , N. Castro-Rodríguez , A. Cava , P. Chanial , D. L. Clements , A. Conley , L. Conversi , A. Cooray , C. D. Dowell , E. Dwek , S. Eales , D. Elbaz , M. Fox , A. Franceschini , W. Gear , J. Glenn , M. Griffin , M. Halpern , E. Hatziminaoglou , E. Ibar , K. Isaak , R. J. Ivison , G. Lagache , L. Levenson , Carol J. Lonsdale , N. Lu , S. Madden , B. Maffei , G. Mainetti , L. Marchetti , G. E. Morrison , H. T. Nguyen , B. O'Halloran , S. J. Oliver , A. Omont , F. N. Owen , M. Pannella , P. Panuzzo , A. Papageorgiou , C. P. Pearson , I. Pérez-Fournon , M. Pohlen , D. Rizzo , I. G. Roseboom , M. Rowan-Robinson , M. Sánchez Portal , B. Schulz , N. Seymour , D. L. Shupe , A. J. Smith , J. A. Stevens , V. Strazzullo , M. Symeonidis , M. Trichas , K. E. Tugwell , M. Vaccari , I. Valtchanov , L. Vigroux , L. Wang , R. Ward , G. Wright , C. K. Xu , M. Zemcov

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Photometric g and i Light Curves

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) program monitors 849 active galactic nuclei (AGN) both spectroscopically and photometrically. The photometric observations used in this work span over four years and provide an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 K. Kinemuchi , Patrick B. Hall , Ian McGreer , C. S. Kochanek , Catherine J. Grier , Jonathan Trump , Yue Shen , W. N. Brandt , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Xiaohui Fan , Bradley M. Peterson , Donald P. Schneider , Juan V. Hernandez Santisteban , Keith Horne , Yuguang Chen , Sarah Eftekharzadeh , Yucheng Guo , Siyao Jia , Feng Li , Zefeng Li , Jundan Nie , Kara A. Ponder , Jesse Rogerson , Tianmen Zhang , Hu Zou , Linhua Jiang , Luis C. Ho , Jean-Paul Kneib , Patrick Petitjean , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Christopher Yeche

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Galaxy-galaxy lensing

We present galaxy--galaxy lensing (GGL) measurements from the full six years of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y6), covering $4031\,\mathrm{deg}^2$ and used in the DES Y6 $3\times2$pt cosmological analysis. We use the MagLim++ lens…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 G. Giannini , G. Camacho-Ciurana , A. Whyley , J. Prat , J. Blazek , C. Sánchez , G. Zacharegkas , A. Alarcon , E. Legnani , A. Amon , D. Anbajagane , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , S. Bocquet , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , M. Crocce , W. d'Assignies , J. De Vicente , A. Drlica-Wagner , S. Elvin-Poole , A. Ferté , M. Gatti , D. Gruen , M. Jarvis , M. Manera , S. Mau , J. McCullough , F. Menanteau , J. Myles , A. Porredon , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , D. Sanchez Cid , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , T. Schutt , M. A. Troxel , N. Weaverdyck , M. Yamamoto , B. Yin , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , H. Camacho , J. Carretero , L. N. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , T. M. Davis , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , C. Doux , T. F. Eifler , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , P. Giles , K. Glazebrook , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , N. Jeffrey , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , E. Krause , O. Lahav , S. Lee , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Muir , R. C. Nichol , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , M. Paterno , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas Malagón , M. Raveri , R. Rosenfeld , E. Sanchez , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , J. Allyn. Smith , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , M. Vincenzi , A. R. Walker , P. Wiseman , B. Yanny

Detectability and Characterisation of Strongly Lensed Supernova Lightcurves in the Zwicky Transient Facility

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) was expected to detect more than one strong gravitationally-lensed supernova (glSN) per year, but only one event was identified in the first four years of the survey. This work investigates selection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-04 A. Sagués Carracedo , A. Goobar , E. Mörtsell , N. Arendse , J. Johansson , A. Townsend , S. Dhawan , J. Nordin , J. Sollerman , S. Schulze

Photometrically-Classified Superluminous Supernovae from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey: A Case Study for Science with Machine Learning-Based Classification

With the upcoming Vera C.~Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), it is expected that only $\sim 0.1\%$ of all transients will be classified spectroscopically. To conduct studies of rare transients, such as Type I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-18 Brian Hsu , Griffin Hosseinzadeh , V. Ashley Villar , Edo Berger

The Type I Superluminous Supernova Catalog I: Light Curve Properties, Models, and Catalog Description

We present the most comprehensive catalog to date of Type I Superluminous Supernovae (SLSNe), a class of stripped envelope supernovae (SNe) characterized by exceptionally high luminosities. We have compiled a sample of 262 SLSNe reported…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-12 Sebastian Gomez , Matt Nicholl , Edo Berger , Peter K. Blanchard , V. Ashley Villar , Sofia Rest , Griffin Hosseinzadeh , Aysha Aamer , Yukta Ajay , Wasundara Athukoralalage , David C. Coulter , Tarraneh Eftekhari , Achille Fiore , Noah Franz , Ori Fox , Alexander Gagliano , Daichi Hiramatsu , D. Andrew Howell , Brian Hsu , Mitchell Karmen , Matthew R. Siebert , Réka Könyves-Tóth , Harsh Kumar , Curtis McCully , Craig Pellegrino , Justin Pierel , Armin Rest , Qinan Wang

The DESI Experiment, a whitepaper for Snowmass 2013

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is a massively multiplexed fiber-fed spectrograph that will make the next major advance in dark energy in the timeframe 2018-2022. On the Mayall telescope, DESI will obtain spectra and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-06 Michael Levi , Chris Bebek , Timothy Beers , Robert Blum , Robert Cahn , Daniel Eisenstein , Brenna Flaugher , Klaus Honscheid , Richard Kron , Ofer Lahav , Patrick McDonald , Natalie Roe , David Schlegel , representing the DESI collaboration

The DECADE cosmic shear project IV: cosmological constraints from 107 million galaxies across 5,400 deg$^2$ of the sky

We present cosmological constraints from the Dark Energy Camera All Data Everywhere (DECADE) cosmic shear analysis. This work uses shape measurements for 107 million galaxies measured through Dark Energy Camera (DECam) imaging of $5,\!412$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 D. Anbajagane , C. Chang , A. Drlica-Wagner , C. Y. Tan , M. Adamow , R. A. Gruendl , L. F. Secco , Z. Zhang , M. R. Becker , P. S. Ferguson , N. Chicoine , K. Herron , A. Alarcon , R. Teixeira , D. Suson , A. N. Alsina , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Blazek , C. R. Bom , H. Camacho , J. A. Carballo-Bello , A. Carnero Rosell , R. Cawthon , W. Cerny , A. Choi , Y. Choi , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Esteves , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , E. M. Huff , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , E. Krause , 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 , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Raveri , A. H. Riley , E. S. Rykoff , J. D. Sakowska , S. Samuroff , D. Sanchez-Cid , D. J. Sand , L. Santana-Silva , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , T. Shin , M. Soares-Santos , G. S. Stringfellow , C. To , A. Tong , M. A. Troxel , A. K. Vivas , M. Yamamoto , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz