M. Crocce

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

Simulating the Universe with MICE: the abundance of massive clusters

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MEASURING BARYON ACOUSTIC OSCILLATIONS ALONG THE LINE OF SIGHT WITH PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS: THE PAU SURVEY

) and span a range of physical sizes (17

On the radiative efficiencies, Eddington ratios, and duty cycles of luminous high-redshift quasars

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Multi-Point Propagators in Cosmological Gravitational Instability

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The DES Science Verification weak lensing shear catalogues

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The MICE Grand Challenge Lightcone Simulation I: Dark matter clustering

) 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

Modelling the angular correlation function and its full covariance in photometric galaxy surveys

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Cross-Correlation of spectroscopic and photometric galaxy surveys: cosmology from lensing and redshift distortions

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