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A DECam search for an optical counterpart to the LIGO gravitational-wave event GW151226

scientific article (publication date: 29 July 2016)

A Measurement of the Rate of Type Ia Supernovae at Redshiftz≈ 0.1 from the First Season of the SDSS‐II Supernova Survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Search for Kilonovae in the Dark Energy Survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A Search for Optical Emission from Binary Black Hole Merger GW170814 with the Dark Energy Camera

scholarly article by Z. Doctor et al published 15 March 2019 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

A dark energy camera search for an optical counterpart to the first advanced LIGO gravitational wave event GW150914

article published in 2016

A dark energy camera search for missing supergiants in the LMC after the advanced LIGO gravitational-wave event GW150914

A measurement of the rate of type Ia supernovae in galaxy clusters from the SDSS-II supernova survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A mismatch in the ultraviolet spectra between low-redshift and intermediate-redshift type Ia supernovae as a possible systematic uncertainty for supernova cosmology

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

A more general model for the intrinsic scatter in type Ia supernova distance moduli

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A precision photometric comparison between SDSS-II and CSP type Ia supernova data

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Assessment of systematic chromatic errors that impact sub-1% photometric precision in large-area sky surveys

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Automated transient identification in the Dark Energy Survey

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Cosmological Constraints from Multiple Probes in the Dark Energy Survey

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

DES13S2cmm: the first superluminous supernova from the Dark Energy Survey

scholarly article

DES14X3taz: A TYPE I SUPERLUMINOUS SUPERNOVA SHOWING A LUMINOUS, RAPIDLY COOLING INITIAL PRE-PEAK BUMP

DES15E2mlf: A Spectroscopically Confirmed Superluminous Supernova that Exploded 3.5 Gyr After the Big Bang

scholarly article by Y.-C. Pan et al published 13 June 2017 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Distance probes of dark energy

ERRATUM: “AUTOMATED TRANSIENT IDENTIFICATION IN THE DARK ENERGY SURVEY” (2015, AJ, 150, 82)

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

ERRATUM: “IMPROVED CONSTRAINTS ON TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA HOST GALAXY PROPERTIES USING MULTI-WAVELENGTH PHOTOMETRY AND THEIR CORRELATIONS WITH SUPERNOVA PROPERTIES” (2011, ApJ, 740, 92)

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Early-time light curves of Type Ib/c supernovae from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Extending Supernova Spectral Templates for Next-generation Space Telescope Observations

scholarly article

Extending the supernova Hubble diagram toz~ 1.5 with theEuclidspace mission

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

First Cosmology Results Using SNe Ia from the Dark Energy Survey: Analysis, Systematic Uncertainties, and Validation

scholarly article by D. Brout et al published 2 April 2019 in The Astrophysical Journal

First Cosmology Results Using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Photometric Pipeline and Light-curve Data Release

scholarly article by D. Brout et al published 27 March 2019 in The Astrophysical Journal

First Cosmology Results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Constraints on Cosmological Parameters

scholarly article by T. M. C. Abbott et al published 21 February 2019 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

First Measurement of the Hubble Constant from a Dark Standard Siren using the Dark Energy Survey Galaxies and the LIGO/Virgo Binary–Black-hole Merger GW170814

scholarly article by M. Soares-Santos et al published 26 April 2019 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

First cosmological results using Type Ia supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: measurement of the Hubble constant

scientific article

First cosmology results using Type IA supernovae from the dark energy survey: effects of chromatic corrections to supernova photometry on measurements of cosmological parameters

scholarly article by J Lasker et al published 5 March 2019 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

First cosmology results using Type Ia supernova from the Dark Energy Survey: simulations to correct supernova distance biases

article

First-year Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II supernova results: Hubble diagram and cosmological parameters

article

First-year spectroscopy for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II supernova survey

scientific article

Forward Global Photometric Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Host galaxy identification for supernova surveys

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

How Many Kilonovae Can Be Found in Past, Present, and Future Survey Data Sets?

Improved constraints on type Ia supernova host galaxy properties using multi-wavelength photometry and their correlations with supernova properties

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Improved cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the SDSS-II and SNLS supernova samples

scientific article

LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

article

Localization and Broadband Follow-up of the Gravitational-wave Transient GW150914

journal article from 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters' published in 2016

Measurement of the K0 charge radius and a CP-violating asymmetry and a search for CP-violating E1 direct photon emission in the rare decay KL--> pi+ pi- e+ e-

scientific article

Measurements of the rate of type Ia supernovae at redshift <~0.3 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II Supernova Survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Measuring Dark Energy Properties with Photometrically Classified Pan-STARRS Supernovae. II. Cosmological Parameters

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Measuring the Properties of Dark Energy with Photometrically Classified Pan-STARRS Supernovae. I. Systematic Uncertainty from Core-collapse Supernova Contamination

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Nearby Supernova Factory Observations of SN 2005gj: Another Type Ia Supernova in a Massive Circumstellar Envelope

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Nearby Supernova Factory Observations of SN 2006D: On Sporadic Carbon Signatures in Early Type Ia Supernova Spectra

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Observation and confirmation of six strong-lensing systems in the dark energy survey science verification data

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Observation of two new L4 Neptune trojans in the dark energy survey supernova fields

scientific article (publication date: 28 January 2016)

OzDES multifibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: 3-yr results and first data release

scholarly article

OzDES multifibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: first-year operation and results

scholarly article

Photometric estimates of redshifts and distance moduli for type Ia supernovae

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Photometric type Ia supernova candidates from the three-year SDSS-II SN Survey data

scientific article published in January 2011

PreCam: A Precursor Observational Campaign for Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey

Precise measurements of direct C P violation, C P T symmetry, and other parameters in the neutral kaon system

scientific article

Quasar Accretion Disk Sizes from Continuum Reverberation Mapping from the Dark Energy Survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Rapidly evolving transients in the Dark Energy Survey

scientific article

Results from the Supernova Photometric Classification Challenge

scientific article

Spectroscopic properties of star-forming host galaxies and type Ia supernova Hubble residuals in a nearly unbiased sample

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Steve: A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Supernova Cosmology

scholarly article by S. R. Hinton et al published 29 April 2019 in The Astrophysical Journal

Studying the Ultraviolet Spectrum of the First Spectroscopically Confirmed Supernova at Redshift Two

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Superluminous Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey

scientific article

Supernova simulations and strategies for the dark energy survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Supplement: "Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 826, L13)

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

The Complete Light-curve Sample of Spectroscopically Confirmed SNe Ia from Pan-STARRS1 and Cosmological Constraints from the Combined Pantheon Sample

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Dark Energy Survey and operations: Year 1

The Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey

article by Masao Sako et al published 14 May 2018 in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Discovery of the Optical Counterpart Using the Dark Energy Camera

scholarly article

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models

article by P. S. Cowperthwaite et al published 16 October 2017 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. IV. Detection of Near-infrared Signatures of r-process Nucleosynthesis with Gemini-South

The Nearby Supernova Factory

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The Nearby Supernova Factory

scholarly article

The Peculiar SN 2005hk: Do Some Type Ia Supernovae Explode as Deflagrations?

scientific article

The SDSS-II supernova survey: parameterizing the TYPE Ia supernova rate as a function of host galaxy properties

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

scientific article published in 2008

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II supernova survey: search algorithm and follow-up observations

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II supernova survey: technical summary

scientific article

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II: photometry and supernova Ia light curves from the 2005 data

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The carnegie supernova project: first near-infrared Hubble diagram to z ~ 0.7

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The core collapse supernova rate from the SDSS-II supernova survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The dark energy camera

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The dark energy survey and operations: years 1 to 3

The difference imaging pipeline for the transient search in the Dark Energy Survey

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The effect of peculiar velocities on supernova cosmology

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The rise and fall of type Ia supernova light curves in the SDSS-II supernova survey

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The seventh data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

scientific article published in 2009

Type II-P supernovae from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey and the Standardized Candle Method

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal