[PDF] Top 20 Dark energy survey year 1 results: the photometric data set for cosmology

... of dark energy with DES rely on an unprecedented survey data set and a comprehensive under- standing of the survey ...mitigate the in fluences of variable observing ... See full document

... distort the spacetime around it, and thus produce a curious phenomenon called gravitational ...lensing. The most obvious manifestation is about massive galaxy clusters, where background galaxies can be ... See full document

... between the redMaGiC galaxies used in this work for calibration and those in the main DES cosmology papers theoretically could mean the calibrations are not applica- ble to the DES Y1 ... See full document

... synthetic data In order to verify that our results are robust to modeling assumptions and approximations, we compare the inferred values of the extension parameters ( Ω k ; N eff ; …) obtained ... See full document

... of cosmology over the previous few decades has been very successful at building a minimal model that is based on predictions from general relativity at cosmologi- cal scales and validated through a wide ... See full document

... from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Canada Research Chairs program, and support from the Kavli ...by the U.S. Department of ... See full document

... for the DES Projects has been provided by the ...of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, the Science and Technology ... See full document

... for the DES Projects has been provided by the ...of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, the Science and Technology ... See full document

... Since the extended area does not overlap with the SPT footprint, we expect the gain in the signal to noise to be small in terms of improvements in sky ...chosen the scale cuts to ... See full document

... over the SV studies were made: first, given the large area of the mass map on the sky, it was necessary to go beyond the flat-sky approximation and employ curved-sky ...estimators. ... See full document

... loosens the constraint by close to 20% (from ...that the clustering amplitude in DES Y1 is slightly lower than expected in ΛCDM informed by ...Planck. The three ways of reducing the clustering ... See full document

... for the DES Projects has been provided by the ...of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Min- istry of Science and Education of Spain, the Science and Technol- ogy ... See full document

... through the Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect (Sunyaev & Zeldovich 1970 , 1972 ; Bleem et ...by the presence of hot intracluster ...masses. The MOR must be calibrated using additional information. ... See full document

... Urbana-Champaign, the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University, the ... See full document

... We perform a joint analysis of intrinsic alignments and cosmology using tomographic weak lensing, galaxy clustering, and galaxy–galaxy lensing measurements from Year 1 Y1 of the Dark Ene[r] ... See full document

... for the DES Projects has been provided by the ...of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, the Science and Technology ... See full document

... parameters, the measurements of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing can provide independent measurements of the galaxy bias of a given lens ...population. The DES Y1 cosmology analysis ... See full document

... DES data management system is supported by the Na- tional Science Foundation under grant numbers AST-1138766 and ...AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported ... See full document

... and the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF; De Cia et ...to the respective depths of these surveys, these samples are limited to either the local Universe (PTF; De Cia et ...). The Dark ... See full document

... been the increasingly sophisticated analyses of the ...Ia data sets grow in size, analyses are better able to characterize SN Ia populations and expected biases from observational selection and ... See full document