D. L. Burke

Eight ultra-faint galaxy candidates discovered in year two of the Dark Energy Survey

We report the discovery of eight new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidates in the second year of optical imaging data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Six of these candidates are detected at high confidence, while two lower-confidence candidates are identified in regions of non-uniform survey coverage. The new stellar systems are found by three independent automated search techniques and are identified as overdensities of stars, consistent with the isochrone and luminosity function of an old and metal-poor simple stellar population. The new systems are faint (MV > −4.7

Observation of the radiative transition ψ → γE(1420)

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The DES Science Verification weak lensing shear catalogues

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Determination of ±s from a differential-jet-multiplicity distribution in e+e- collisions at ss =29 and 91 GeV

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The RedMaPPer Galaxy Cluster Catalog From DES Science Verification Data

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

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A measurement of the cross section for four-pion production in λλ collisions at spear☆

) and heliocentric distances (25 kpc < D(⊙) < 214 kpc). All of the new systems have central surface brightnesses consistent with known ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (μ ≳ 27.5

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

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Discovery of two gravitationally lensed quasars in the Dark Energy Survey

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