DECam Science papers

2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019

Community papers:

2020

• Andreoni et al. (2020), MNRAS, 491, 5852: Probing the extragalactic fast transient sky at minute time-scales with DECam
• Andreoni et al. (2020), ApJ, 890, 131: GROWTH on S190814bv: Deep Synoptic Limits on the Optical/Near-infrared Counterpart to a Neutron Star-Black Hole Merger
• Bonaca et al. (2020), ApJ, 889, 70: Variations in the Width, Density, and Direction of the Palomar 5 Tidal Tails
• Calamida et al. (2020), ApJ, 891, 167: The Not So Simple Stellar System Omega Cen. II. Evidence in Support of a Merging Scenario
• Chandler et al. (2020), ApJL, 892, L38: Cometary Activity Discovered on a Distant Centaur: A Nonaqueous Sublimation Mechanism
• Chen et al. (2020), ApJL, 889, L6: The Most Rapidly Declining Type I Supernova 2019bkc/ATLAS19dqr
• Cheng et al. (2020), MNRAS, 493, 4209: Optimizing automatic morphological classification of galaxies with machine learning and deep learning using Dark Energy Survey imaging
• Coppejans et al. (2020), MNRAS, ApJL, 895, L23: A Mildly Relativistic Outflow from the Energetic, Fast-rising Blue Optical Transient CSS161010 in a Dwarf Galaxy
• Coughlin et al. (2020), MNRAS, 492, 863: Implications of the search for optical counterparts during the first six months of the Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run: possible limits on the ejecta mass and binary properties
• Ebrova et al. (2020), A&A, 634, A73: NGC 4993, the shell galaxy host of GW170817: constraints on the recent galactic merger
• Fahrion et al. (2020), A&A, 634, A53: Metal-poor nuclear star clusters in two dwarf galaxies near Centaurus A suggesting formation from the in-spiraling of globular clusters
• Grado et al. (2020), MNRAS, 492, 1731: Search for the optical counterpart of the GW170814 gravitational wave event with the VLT Survey Telescope
• Hewitt et al. (2020), MNRAS, 493, 3854: Comparison of galaxy spiral arm pitch angle measurements using manual and automated techniques
• Huang et al. (2020), ApJ, 894, 78: Finding Strong Gravitational Lenses in the DESI DECam Legacy Survey
• Ji et al. (2020), ApJ, 889, 27: Detailed Abundances in the Ultra-faint Magellanic Satellites Carina II and III
• Johnston et al. (2020), MNRAS, 495, 2247: The Next Generation Fornax Survey (NGFS): VII. A MUSE view of the nuclear star clusters in Fornax dwarf galaxies
• Kasparova et al. (2020), MNRAS, 493, 5494: An excessively massive thick disc of the enormous edge-on lenticular galaxy NGC 7572
• Kawinwanichakij et al. (2020), ApJ, 892, 7: On the (Lack of) Evolution of the Stellar Mass Function of Massive Galaxies from z = 1.5 to 0.4
• Khostovan et al. (2020), MNRAS, 493, 3966: A large, deep 3 deg2 survey of Halpha, [OIII], and [OII] emitters from LAGER: constraining luminosity functions
• Kim et al. (2020), ApJ, 894, 126: Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph Integral Field Unit Spectroscopy of the Double-peaked Broad Emission Line of a Red Active Galactic Nucleus
• Kitanidis et al (2020), MNRAS, 492, 2262: Imaging systematics and clustering of DESI main targets
• Luo et al. (2020), MNRAS, 494, 3686: Characterization of optical light curves of extreme variability quasars over a ~16-yr baseline
• Markwardt et al. (2020), MNRAS, 492, 6105: Search for L5 Earth Trojans with DECam
• Martinez-Palomera et al. (2020), ApJ, 889, 113: Introducing the Search for Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Nearby Galaxies (SIBLING) Survey
• Mau et al. (2020), ApJ, 890, 136: Two Ultra-faint Milky Way Stellar Systems Discovered in Early Data from the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey
• McCleary et al. (2020), ApJ, 893, 8: Dark Matter Distribution of Four Low-z Clusters of Galaxies
• Monteiro-Oliveira et al. (2020), MNRAS, 495, 2007: Revising the merger scenario of the galaxy cluster Abell 1644: a new gas poor structure discovered by weak gravitational lensing
• Moskowitz and Walker (2020), ApJ, 892:27: Stellar Density Profiles of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
• Paillassa et al. (2020), A&A, 634, A48: MAXIMASK and MAXITRACK: Two new tools for identifying contaminants in astronomical images using convolutional neural networks
• Palumbo et al. (2020), MNRAS, 494, 4730: Linking compact dwarf starburst galaxies in the RESOLVE survey to downsized blue nuggets
• Peña et al (2020), AJ, 159, 148: Asteroids' Size Distribution and Colors from HITS
• Phriksee et al. (2020), MNRAS, 491, 1643: Weak lensing analysis of CODEX clusters using dark energy camera legacy survey: mass-richness relation
• Piatti and Fernandez-Trincado, A&A, 635, A93: Pal 13: its moderately extended low-density halo and its accretion history
• Prieto et al. (2020), ApJ, 889, 100: Variable Halpha Emission in the Nebular Spectra of the Low-luminosity Type Ia SN2018cqj/ATLAS18qtd
• Reines et al. (2020), ApJ, 888, 36: A New Sample of (Wandering) Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies from High-resolution Radio Observations
• Rezaie et al. (2020), MNRAS, 495, 1613: Improving galaxy clustering measurements with deep learning: analysis of the DECaLS DR7 data
• Sherman et al. (2020), MNRAS, 491, 3318: Exploring the high-mass end of the stellar mass function of star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon
• Soraisam et al. (2020), ApJ, 892, 112: A Classification Algorithm for Time-domain Novelties in Preparation for LSST Alerts. Application to Variable Stars and Transients Detected with DECam in the Galactic Bulge
• Tanoglidis et al. (2020), MNRAS, 491, 3535: Optimizing galaxy samples for clustering measurements in photometric surveys
• Ting-Wen and Prochaska (2020), MNRAS, in press: Constraining Magnetic Fields in the Circumgalactic Medium
• Vaduvescu et al. (2020), Astronomy and Computing, 30, 100356: Mega-Archive and the EURONEAR tools for data mining world astronomical images
• Vieira et al. (2020), ApJ, 895, 96: A Deep CFHT Optical Search for a Counterpart to the Possible Neutron Star-Black Hole Merger GW190814
• Vivas et al. (2020), MNRAS, 492, 1061: A DECam view of the diffuse dwarf galaxy Crater II - Variable stars
• Young et al. (2020), MNRAS, 495, 1493: Atomic hydrogen clues to the formation of counterrotating stellar discs
• Zenteno et al. (2020), MNRAS, 495, 705: A joint SZ-X-ray-optical analysis of the dynamical state of 288 massive galaxy clusters
• Zucker et al. (2020), A&A, 633, A51: A compendium of distances to molecular clouds in the Star Formation Handbook

Papers from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Collaboration:

2020

• Bernardinelli et al. (2020), ApJSS, 247, 32: Trans-Neptunian Objects Found in the First Four Years of the Dark Energy Survey
• Bleem et al. (2020), ApJSS, 247, 25: The SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey
• de Jaeger et al. (2020), MNRAS, 495, 4860: Studying Type II supernovae as cosmological standard candles using the Dark Energy Survey
• Drlica-Wagner et al. (2020), ApJ, 893, 47: Milky Way Satellite Census. I. The Observational Selection Function for Milky Way Satellites in DES Y3 and Pan-STARRS DR1
• Gutierrez et al. (2020), MNRAS, 496, 95: DES16C3cje: A low-luminosity, long-lived supernova
• Khain et al. (2020), AJ, 159, 133: Dynamical Classification of Trans-Neptunian Objects Detected by the Dark Energy Survey
• Lidman et al. (2020), MNRAS, 496, 19: OzDES multi-object fibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: results and second data release
• Mawdsley et al. (2020), MNRAS, 493, 5662: Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Wide-field mass maps via forward fitting in harmonic space
• Nadler et al. (2020), ApJ, 893, 48: Milky Way Satellite Census. II. Galaxy-Halo Connection Constraints Including the Impact of the Large Magellanic Cloud
• Nord et al. (2020), MNRAS, 494, 1308: Observation and confirmation of nine strong-lensing systems in Dark Energy Survey Year 1 data
• Palmese et al. (2020), MNRAS, 493, 4591: Stellar mass as a galaxy cluster mass proxy: application to the Dark Energy Survey redMaPPer clusters
• Pursiainen et al. (2020), MNRAS, 494, 5576: The mystery of photometric twins DES17X1boj and DES16E2bjy
• Scolnic et al (2020), ApJL, 896, L13: Supernova Siblings: Assessing the Consistency of Properties of Type Ia Supernovae that Share the Same Parent Galaxies
• Smith et al. (2020), MNRAS, 494, 4426: First cosmology results using type Ia supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: the effect of host galaxy properties on supernova luminosity
• Wiseman et al. (2020), MNRAS, 495, 4040: Supernova host galaxies in the dark energy survey: I. Deep coadds, photometry, and stellar masses
• Yang et al. (2020), MNRAS, 493, 5573: Spectral variability of a sample of extreme variability quasars and implications for the Mg II broad-line region
• Yu et al. (2020), ApJSS, 246, 16: Quasar Accretion Disk Sizes from Continuum Reverberation Mapping in the DES Standard-star Fields