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A catalogue of structural and morphological measurements for DES Y1

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A census of star-forming galaxies in the z ~ 9-10 universe based on HST+Spitzer observations over 19 CLASH clusters: three candidate z ~ 9-10 galaxies and improved constraints on the star formation rate density at z ~ 9.2

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A magnified young galaxy from about 500 million years after the Big Bang

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A measurement of CMB cluster lensing with SPT and DES year 1 data

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A multicomponent matched filter cluster confirmation tool for eROSITA: initial application to the RASS and DES-SV data sets

scholarly article

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

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Biases in, and corrections to, KSB shear measurements

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CLASH-VLT: A highly precise strong lensing model of the galaxy cluster RXC J2248.7−4431 (Abell S1063) and prospects for cosmography

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

CLASH-VLT: The mass, velocity-anisotropy, and pseudo-phase-space density profiles of thez= 0.44 galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2-0847

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

CLASH-VLT: constraints on the dark matter equation of state from accurate measurements of galaxy cluster mass profiles

CLASH-VLT: spectroscopic confirmation of a z = 6.11 quintuply lensed galaxy in the Frontier Fields Cluster RXC J2248.7-4431 (Corrigendum)

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

CLASH-VLT: spectroscopic confirmation of az= 6.11 quintuply lensed galaxy in the Frontier Fields cluster RXC J2248.7-4431

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

CLASH-x: a comparison of lensing and X-ray techniques for measuring the mass profiles of galaxy clusters

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

CLASH: PRECISE NEW CONSTRAINTS ON THE MASS PROFILE OF THE GALAXY CLUSTER A2261

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

CLASH: Photometric redshifts with 16 HST bands in galaxy cluster fields

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

CLASH: a census of magnified star-forming galaxies at z ~ 6-8

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

CLASH: accurate photometric redshifts with 14 HST bands in massive galaxy cluster cores

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CLASH: complete lensing analysis of the largest cosmic lens MACS J0717.5+3745 and surrounding structures

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

CLASH: extending galaxy strong lensing to small physical scales with distant sources highly magnified by galaxy cluster members

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

CLASH: mass distribution in and around MACS J1206.2-0847 from a full cluster lensing analysis

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

CLASH: new multiple images constraining the inner mass profile of MACS J1206.2-0847

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

CLASH: the concentration-mass relation of galaxy clusters

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

CLASH: weak-lensing shear-and-magnification analysis of 20 galaxy clusters

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

CLASH: z ∼ 6 young galaxy candidate quintuply lensed by the frontier field cluster RXC J2248.7−4431

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CMB lensing tomography with the DES Science Verification galaxies

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Calibration biases in measurements of weak lensing

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Comparing Dark Energy Survey andHST–CLASH observations of the galaxy cluster RXC J2248.7−4431: implications for stellar mass versus dark matter

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Constraints on the Mass, Concentration, and Nonthermal Pressure Support of Six CLASH Clusters from a Joint Analysis of X-Ray, SZ, and Lensing Data

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Constraints on the richness–mass relation and the optical-SZE positional offset distribution for SZE-selected clusters

article by A. Saro et al published 12 October 2015 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Core or Cusps: The Central Dark Matter Profile of a Strong Lensing Cluster with a Bright Central Image at Redshift 1

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Cosmic shear measurements with Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

article by M. R. Becker et al published 6 July 2016 in Physical Review D

Cosmic voids and void lensing in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

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Cosmological constraints from the convergence 1-point probability distribution

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Cosmology constraints from shear peak statistics in Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

scholarly article by T. Kacprzak et al published 19 August 2016 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Cosmology from cosmic shear with Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

scholarly article by T. Abbott et al published 6 July 2016 in Physical Review D

Cosmology from large-scale galaxy clustering and galaxy–galaxy lensing with Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

scholarly article by J. Kwan et al published 5 October 2016 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Cosmology with Galaxy Photometry Alone

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Cross-correlation of gravitational lensing from DES Science Verification data with SPT andPlancklensing

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Cross-correlation redshift calibration without spectroscopic calibration samples in DES Science Verification Data

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Crowded Field Galaxy Photometry: Precision Colors in the CLASH Clusters

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Crowdsourcing quality control for Dark Energy Survey images

DES science portal: Computing photometric redshifts

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: The Photometric Data Set for Cosmology

scholarly article by A. Drlica-Wagner et al published 3 April 2018 in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: redshift distributions of the weak-lensing source galaxies

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Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: constraints on intrinsic alignments and their colour dependence from galaxy clustering and weak lensing

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Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: cross-correlation redshifts – methods and systematics characterization

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Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: curved-sky weak lensing mass map

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Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: the impact of galaxy neighbours on weak lensing cosmology with im3shape

scholarly article by S Samuroff et al published 26 December 2017 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: weak lensing mass calibration of redMaPPer galaxy clusters

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Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Measuring the Survey Transfer Function with Balrog

scientific article published on 14 January 2022

Deconvolution with shapelets

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Density mapping with weak lensing and phase information

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Density split statistics: Cosmological constraints from counts and lensing in cells in DES Y1 and SDSS data

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Density split statistics: Joint model of counts and lensing in cells

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Detecting galaxy-filament alignments in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

Detection of the kinematic Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect with DES Year 1 and SPT

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Discovery of the Lensed Quasar System DES J0408-5354

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Environmental dependence of the galaxy stellar mass function in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data

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Euclid preparation: XIII. Forecasts for galaxy morphology with the Euclid Survey using deep generative models

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Evidence for ubiquitous high-equivalent-width nebular emission in z ~ 7 galaxies: toward a clean measurement of the specific star-formation rate using a sample of bright, magnified galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Filling the gaps: Gaussian mixture models from noisy, truncated or incomplete samples

First cosmology results using type Ia supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: the effect of host galaxy properties on supernova luminosity

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First measurement of gravitational lensing by cosmic voids in SDSS

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Forward Global Photometric Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

GalSim : The modular galaxy image simulation toolkit

Galaxy bias from galaxy–galaxy lensing in the DES science verification data

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Galaxy bias from the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data: combining galaxy density maps and weak lensing maps

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Galaxy clustering, photometric redshifts and diagnosis of systematics in the DES Science Verification data

article by M. Crocce et al published 9 December 2015 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Galaxy halo truncation and giant arc surface brightness reconstruction in the cluster MACSJ1206.2-0847

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Galaxy–galaxy lensing in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

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Graph neural network-based resource allocation strategies for multi-object spectroscopy

scientific article published in 2022

Hubble Space Telescope combined strong and weak lensing analysis of the CLASH sample: mass and magnification models and systematic uncertainties

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Image analysis for cosmology: results from the GREAT10 Galaxy Challenge

scholarly article by T. D. Kitching et al published 13 June 2012 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Imprint of DES superstructures on the cosmic microwave background

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Improving weak lensing mass map reconstructions using Gaussian and sparsity priors: application to DES SV

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In the Crosshair: Astrometric Exoplanet Detection with WFIRST's Diffraction Spikes

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Inference from the small scales of cosmic shear with current and future Dark Energy Survey data

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Intracluster light properties in the CLASH-VLT cluster MACS J1206.2-0847

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Joint analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering: Methodology and forecasts for Dark Energy Survey

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Joint measurement of lensing–galaxy correlations using SPT and DES SV data

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Limitations on shapelet-based weak-lensing measurements

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

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

Mapping and simulating systematics due to spatially varying observing conditions in DES science verification data

article by Boris Leistedt et al published 17 October 2016 in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Means of confusion: how pixel noise affects shear estimates for weak gravitational lensing

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Models of the strongly lensed quasar DES J0408−5354

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Morphological Galaxy Classification with Shapelets

No galaxy left behind: accurate measurements with the faintest objects in the Dark Energy Survey

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

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

On the relative bias of void tracers in the Dark Energy Survey

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Parametrizing arbitrary galaxy morphologies: potentials and pitfalls

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Producing a BOSS CMASS sample with DES imaging

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Quantifying galaxy shapes: sérsiclets and beyond

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Realistic simulations of gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters: extracting arc parameters from mock DUNE images

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Redshift distributions of galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification shear catalogue and implications for weak lensing

article by C. Bonnett et al published 30 August 2016 in Physical Review D

Reliable shapelet image analysis

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Scientific Synergy between LSST and Euclid

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Shear-flexion cross-talk in weak-lensing measurements

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

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

The Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble: an overview

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The DES Science Verification weak lensing shear catalogues

article by M. Jarvis et al published 1 May 2016 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2

scholarly article published in August 2021

The Dark Energy Survey and operations: Year 1

The Dark Energy Survey: Data Release 1

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The MUSIC of CLASH: predictions on the concentration-mass relation

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Projected Dark and Baryonic Ellipsoidal Structure of 20 CLASH Galaxy Clusters

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The cluster lensing and supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH): strong-lensing analysis of A383 from 16-band HST/WFC3/ACS imaging

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The contribution of halos with different mass ratios to the overall growth of cluster-sized halos

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The dark energy survey and operations: years 1 to 3

The evolution of active galactic nuclei in clusters of galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey

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The redMaPPer galaxy cluster catalog from DES science verification data

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The third gravitational lensing accuracy testing (GREAT3) challenge handbook

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Three gravitationally lensed supernovae behind CLASH galaxy clusters

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Unveiling shapes: Shapelets for galaxy morphology and gravitational lensing studies

Unveiling the Dynamical State of Massive Clusters through the ICL Fraction

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

VDES J2325-5229 a z = 2.7 gravitationally lensed quasar discovered using morphology-independent supervised machine learning

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Weak gravitational lensing with deimos

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Weak lensing by galaxy troughs in DES Science Verification data

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Weak lensing magnification in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

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Weak-lensing mass calibration of redMaPPer galaxy clusters in Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

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Wide-Field Lensing Mass Maps from Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data

scientific article (publication date: July 2015)

Wide-field lensing mass maps from Dark Energy Survey science verification data: Methodology and detailed analysis

article by V. Vikram et al published 29 July 2015 in Physical Review D

redMaGiC: selecting luminous red galaxies from the DES Science Verification data

article by E. Rozo et al published 30 May 2016 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

scarlet : Source separation in multi-band images by Constrained Matrix Factorization

article by Peter Melchior et al published July 2018 in Astronomy and Computing