[PDF] Top 20 Forward global photometric calibration of the dark energy survey

... illumination of the DECam focal plane through the Blanco input ...measure the detailed wavelength dependencies S b DECal ( ccd, l ) of the grizY instru- mental passbands at ... See full document

... where the photo-z outliers are coming from in redshift space by looking at the cross-correlations of smaller red- shift ..., the cross-correlations of DES high-density on bins of ... See full document

... understanding the nature of dark energy has spurred the development of multiple large photometric surveys that image the sky, capable of inde- pendently ... See full document

... photometry of the standard stars and the photometry of the SNe can result in photometric ...inaccuracies of the measured PSF model because this is not accounted for ... See full document

... Measurements of the galaxy stellar mass function are crucial to understand the formation of galaxies in the ...between the properties of galaxies and their ...in ... See full document

... Note. The bright sample refers to sources with i <19.8 mag and the total sample refers to sources with i<22 ...at the end of Section 3 . C ×E is the product of ... See full document

... in the N-body volumes. The ADDGALS algorithm (Wechsler 2004 ; Busha et ...populate the dark matter simulations with galaxies as a function of luminosity and ...uses the rela- ... See full document

... The Dark Energy Survey (DES, see The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration 2005 ) is an ongoing 5 yr observational campaign supported by an international collaborative ... See full document

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

... for the full photometric redshift distributions, we find that for our ...bin, the non-linear linear alignment model predicts at most an ∼4 per cent contamination of the tangential shear ... See full document

... subsamples of the data and validated with a suite of log-normal ...use the shear-ratio geometric test to obtain independent constraints on the mean of the source redshift ... See full document

... from the PRIMUS DR1 data set (Coil et ...obtain the best fit of the six basic templates to each of the highest quality PRIsm MUlti-Object Survey (PRIMUS) objects (quality ... See full document

... on the prime focus of the 4-metre Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (Flaugher et ...). The DES data management (DESDM) uses an image- processing pipeline that ... See full document

... level of stellar contamination, using a similar estimation, in the catalogues with MOF photometry, both for BPZ and DNF (see Section ...in the middle figure the track from the stellar ... See full document

... from the so-called Y1 Gold catalogue (Drlica-Wagner et ...from the data reduction performed by the Dark Energy Survey Data Management (DESDM) system on DECam ...images. ... See full document

... with the core of an X-ray bright ...sample of 160 X-ray point sources associated with cluster member ...estimate the X-ray luminosity of each source in the rest-frame ...index ... See full document

... This work also makes use of the most sophisticated image simulations currently used for lensing noise and model bias calibration, which account for a wide range of systematic effects tha[r] ... See full document

... from the Dark Energy Survey. We measure the disk sizes with continuum reverberation mapping using two methods, both of which are derived from the expectation that ... See full document

... 4, the main results of the present dissertation are ...for the two-point correlation function of galaxies in redshift space is pre- sented, accounting for wide angle effects, arbitrary ... See full document

... type of run is shown, for instance, in the bottom left-hand panel of ...to the small redshift, the model fitting results in a lower mass galaxy (log M ∼ ...fit. The bottom ... See full document