The DECam local volume exploration survey: Overview and first data release

A Drlica-Wagner, JL Carlin, DL Nidever… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE) is a 126-night survey
program on the 4 m Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in …

Dark energy survey year 3 results: Photometric data set for cosmology

I Sevilla-Noarbe, K Bechtol, MC Kind… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We describe the Dark Energy Survey (DES) photometric data set assembled from
the first three years of science operations to support DES Year 3 cosmologic analyses, and …

The clustering of the SDSS DR7 main Galaxy sample – I. A 4 per cent distance measure at z = 0.15

AJ Ross, L Samushia, C Howlett… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We create a sample of spectroscopically identified galaxies with z< 0.2 from the Sloan
Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7), covering 6813 deg2. Galaxies are chosen …

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Large-scale structure catalogues for cosmological analysis

AJ Ross, J Bautista, R Tojeiro, S Alam… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present large-scale structure catalogues from the completed extended Baryon
Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). Derived from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) IV …

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: first measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations between …

M Ata, F Baumgarten, J Bautista… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present measurements of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale in redshift-space
using the clustering of quasars. We consider a sample of 147 000 quasars from the …

Eight new Milky Way companions discovered in first-year Dark Energy Survey data

K Bechtol, A Drlica-Wagner, E Balbinot… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of eight new Milky Way companions in $\sim 1800\;{\mathrm
{deg}}^{2} $ of optical imaging data collected during the first year of the Dark Energy Survey …

SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 12: galaxy target selection and large-scale structure catalogues

B Reid, S Ho, N Padmanabhan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), part of the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey (SDSS) III project, has provided the largest survey of galaxy redshifts available to …

The baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey of SDSS-III

KS Dawson, DJ Schlegel, CP Ahn… - The Astronomical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) is designed to measure
the scale of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter over a larger …

Dark energy survey year 1 results: The photometric data set for cosmology

A Drlica-Wagner, I Sevilla-Noarbe… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the creation, content, and validation of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) internal
year-one cosmology data set, Y1A1 GOLD, in support of upcoming cosmological analyses …

Milky Way satellite census. I. The observational selection function for Milky Way satellites in DES Y3 and Pan-STARRS DR1

A Drlica-Wagner, K Bechtol, S Mau… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of a systematic search for ultra-faint Milky Way satellite galaxies using
data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and Pan-STARRS1 (PS1). Together, DES and PS1 …