[PDF] Top 20 Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation scale in the distribution of galaxies to redshift 1

... The expected uncertainty for DES Y1 data, assuming a Gaussian likelihood applied to the mean ξ s⊥ obtained from 1800 mock realizations, as a function of the s⊥ binning that is used.. Se[r] ... See full document

... tangentially to the line connecting the two points being correlated, and a cross component, γ × , which is 45° to the line connecting the two ...expected to produce a ... See full document

... by the differential angular correlations, with and without weights applied, relative to the ...that the weights make the biggest difference for the ...is the ... See full document

... and galaxies were added to the simulations using the Adding Density Dependent GAlaxies to Light-cone Simulations (ADDGALS) algorithm (Wechsler et ...al., in preparation). ... See full document

... where the photo-z outliers are coming from in redshift space by looking at the cross-correlations of smaller red- shift ...bins. In Fig. 11 , the cross-correlations ... See full document

... University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, United Kingdom (Received 8 August 2017; published 27 August 2018; corrected 28 August 2018) We measure the clustering of DES year 1 ... See full document

... tool in the analysis of galaxy surveys data, both for the accurate computation of covariance matrices, and for the optimization of analysis methodology and validation ... See full document

... on the arXiv (Lin & Ishak 2017 ...estimates of H 0 : Planck, SH0ES, H0LiCOW, and two more: one from BAO+BBN in conjunction with supernova, and one due to a broad variety of ... See full document

... points in Fig. 2 represent the excess surface mass density profiles inferred via equation (4) using the tangential component of shear from a WL measurement around a subsample of ... See full document

... and dark energy leave numerous unambigu- ous imprints in the expansion rate of the universe and in the rate of growth of cosmic structures as a ... See full document

... studied the galaxy-mass connection using galaxy- galaxy lensing [18–21] . The galaxy-mass connection has also been studied in [22,23] and by [24] at high ...redshift. In this paper we ... See full document

... ): the i-band fluxes are adjusted according to the Galactic extinction implied by the Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis ( 1998 ) dust map with the O’Donnell ( 1994 ) extinction ...Then, ... See full document

... used in estimating the masses of galaxy clusters can be heavily contaminated by cluster members, prohibiting accurate mass ...calibration. In this study, we test the performance ... See full document

... from the so-called Y1 Gold catalogue (Drlica-Wagner et al. 2018 ) which in turn was built from the data reduction performed by the Dark Energy Survey Data Management ... See full document

... light in the ICL raw detection from background and cluster galaxies ...). The methods allow us to acquire high signal-to-noise measurements of the ICL and central ... See full document

... prediction of general relativity is that a concentration of mass will distort the spacetime around it, and thus produce a curious phenomenon called gravitational ...lensing. The most obvious ... See full document

... provides the system name, the algorithms that identi fied the candidates for scanning, the rank as given by the experts, the distance (radius) of the source(s) from ... See full document

... For the the XMM–redMaPPer analysis (Giles et al. in preparation), the redMaPPer sample is matched to all XMM ObsIDs (with useable EPIC science data) under the requirement that ... See full document

... that the scale cuts imposed on w δgκCMB ðθÞ and w γtκCMB ðθÞ are not strictly necessary for the analysis of these two correlation ...desire to ensure that cosmological con- straints ... See full document

... acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory and Advanced LIGO as well as the ... See full document