P. Doel

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

Photometric redshift analysis in the Dark Energy Survey science verification data

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The DES Science Verification weak lensing shear catalogues

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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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Automated transient identification in the Dark Energy Survey

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Mass and galaxy distributions of four massive galaxy clusters from Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

) 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

The LMC geometry and outer stellar populations from early DES data

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Cosmic voids and void lensing in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

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