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We investigate the possibility of constraining dark energy with the Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect recently detected by cross-correlating the WMAP maps with several Large Scale Structure surveys. In agreement with previous works, we found…

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Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmology from Cosmic Shear and Robustness to Data Calibration

This work, together with its companion paper, Secco and Samuroff et al. (2021), presents the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints based on an analysis of over 100 million source galaxies. With the…

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The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy - an overview

This overview article describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the DES early data. DES is using a wide-field camera (DECam) on the…

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Constraining Dark Energy Perturbations: the Role of Early Dark Energy

Dark Energy not only has background effects through its equation of state $w_{DE}$, but also it can cluster through its sound speed $c^2_{sDE}$, subject to certain conditions. As is well-known, for dynamical dark energy models, dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-26 Archita Bhattacharyya , Supratik Pal

Precision cosmology with a wide area XMM cluster survey

We explore the cosmological constraints expected from wide area XMM-type cluster surveys covering 50-200 deg2, under realistic observing conditions. We perform a Fisher matrix analysis based on cluster number counts in combination with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-26 M. Pierre , F. Pacaud , J. B. Juin , J. B. Melin , N. Clerc , P. S. Corasaniti

The Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey 2 (DECaPS2): More Sky, Less Bias, and Better Uncertainties

Deep optical and near-infrared imaging of the entire Galactic plane is essential for understanding our Galaxy's stars, gas, and dust. The second data release of the DECam Plane Survey (DECaPS2) extends the five-band optical and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-01 A. K. Saydjari , E. F. Schlafly , D. Lang , A. M. Meisner , G. M. Green , C. Zucker , I. Zelko , J. S. Speagle , T. Daylan , A. Lee , F. Valdes , D. Schlegel , D. P. Finkbeiner

Dark Energy: The Observational Challenge

Nearly all proposed tests for the nature of dark energy measure some combination of four fundamental observables: the Hubble parameter H(z), the distance-redshift relation d(z), the age-redshift relation t(z), or the linear growth factor…

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Optimizing the LSST Observing Strategy for Dark Energy Science: DESC Recommendations for the Deep Drilling Fields and other Special Programs

We review the measurements of dark energy enabled by observations of the Deep Drilling Fields and the optimization of survey design for cosmological measurements. This white paper is the result of efforts by the LSST DESC Observing Strategy…

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Target Selection and Validation of DESI Luminous Red Galaxies

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is carrying out a 5-year survey that aims to measure the redshifts of tens of millions of galaxies and quasars, including 8 million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-19 Rongpu Zhou , Biprateep Dey , Jeffrey A. Newman , Daniel J. Eisenstein , K. Dawson , S. Bailey , A. Berti , J. Guy , Ting-Wen Lan , H. Zou , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , Shadab Alam , D. Brooks , A. de la Macorra , A. Dey , G. Dhungana , K. Fanning , A. Font-Ribera , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , K. Honscheid , Mustapha Ishak , T. Kisner , A. Kovács , A. Kremin , M. Landriau , Michael E. Levi , C. Magneville , Marc Manera , P. Martini , Aaron M. Meisner , R. Miquel , J. Moustakas , Adam D. Myers , Jundan Nie , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , W. J. Percival , C. Poppett , F. Prada , A. Raichoor , A. J. Ross , E. Schlafly , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , Gregory Tarlé , B. A. Weaver , R. H. Wechsler , Christophe Yèche , Zhimin Zhou

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Galaxy clustering and systematics treatment for lens galaxy samples

In this work we present the galaxy clustering measurements of the two DES lens galaxy samples: a magnitude-limited sample optimized for the measurement of cosmological parameters, MagLim, and a sample of luminous red galaxies selected with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 M. Rodríguez-Monroy , N. Weaverdyck , J. Elvin-Poole , M. Crocce , A. Carnero Rosell , F. Andrade-Oliveira , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , H. Camacho , R. Cawthon , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , S. Dodelson , S. Everett , X. Fang , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , O. Friedrich , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , R. A. Gruendl , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , E. M. Huff , M. Jarvis , E. Krause , N. MacCrann , J. Mena-Fernández , J. Muir , S. Pandey , Y. Park , A. Porredon , J. Prat , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Tabbutt , C. To , E. L. Wagoner , R. H. Wechsler , M. Aguena , S. Allam , A. Amon , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Baxter , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , T. Giannantonio , D. Gruen , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Roodman , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , T. N. Varga

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: The effect of intracluster light on photometric redshifts for weak gravitational lensing

We study the effect of diffuse intracluster light on the critical surface mass density estimated from photometric redshifts of lensing source galaxies, and the resulting bias in a weak lensing measurement of galaxy cluster mass. Under…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 D. Gruen , Y. Zhang , A. Palmese , B. Yanny , V. Busti , B. Hoyle , P. Melchior , C. J. Miller , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , T. N. Varga , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , S. Avila , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , R. Cawthon , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , A. Drlica-Wagner , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , E. Krause , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. L. C. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , V. Scarpine , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Weak Lensing Shape Catalogues

We present two galaxy shape catalogues from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 data set, covering 1500 square degrees with a median redshift of $0.59$. The catalogues cover two main fields: Stripe 82, and an area overlapping the South Pole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-10 J. Zuntz , E. Sheldon , S. Samuroff , M. A. Troxel , M. Jarvis , N. MacCrann , D. Gruen , J. Prat , C. Sánchez , A. Choi , S. L. Bridle , G. M. Bernstein , S. Dodelson , A. Drlica-Wagner , Y. Fang , R. A. Gruendl , B. Hoyle , E. M. Huff , B. Jain , D. Kirk , T. Kacprzak , C. Krawiec , A. A. Plazas , R. P. Rollins , E. S. Rykoff , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , B. Soergel , T. N. Varga , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , 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 , C. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , R. L. C. Ogando , N. Roe , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , 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 , R. H. Wechsler , Y. Zhang

DESI z >~ 5 Quasar Survey. I. A First Sample of 400 New Quasars at z ~ 4.7-6.6

We report the first results of a high-redshift ($z$ >~ 5) quasar survey using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). As a DESI secondary target program, this survey is designed to carry out a systematic search and investigation of…

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Destiny: A Candidate Architecture for the Joint Dark Energy Mission

Destiny is a simple, direct, low cost mission to determine the properties of dark energy by obtaining a cosmologically deep supernova (SN) type Ia Hubble diagram. Operated at L2, its science instrument is a 1.65m space telescope, featuring…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dominic J. Benford , Tod R. Lauer

Constraining dark energy models using the lookback time to galaxy clusters and the age of the universe

An impressive amount of different astrophysical data converges towards the picture of a spatially flat universe undergoing a today phase of accelerated expansion. The nature of the dark energy dominating the energy content of the universe…

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The DECADE cosmic shear project I: A new weak lensing shape catalog of 107 million galaxies

We present 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 Galactic cap. This catalog was assembled from public DECam…

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Benchmarks of Dark Energy

Dark energy is a premier mystery of physics, both theoretical and experimental. As we look to develop plans for high energy physics over the next decade, within a two decade view, we consider benchmarks for revealing the nature of dark…

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Probing decisive answers to dark energy questions from cosmic complementarity and lensing tomography

We study future constraints on dark energy parameters determined from several combinations of CMB experiments, supernova data, and weak lensing surveys with and without tomography. In this analysis, we look in particular for combinations…

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Constraining the Dark Universe

We combine complementary datasets to constrain dark energy. Using standard Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the observed abundances of primordial nuclides to put constraints on $\Omega_Q$ at temperatures near $T \sim 1MeV$, we find the strong…

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The Target-selection Pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

In 2021 May, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) began a 5 yr survey of approximately 50 million total extragalactic and Galactic targets. The primary DESI dark-time targets are emission line galaxies (ELGs), luminous red…

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