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The first Hubble diagram and cosmological constraints using superluminous super...
Sobreira, Flávia, 1982-Agradecimentos: This paper has gone through internal review by the DES collaboration. It has Fermilab preprint number 19-115-AE and DES publication number 13387. We acknowledge support from EU/FP7-ERC grant 615929. RCN would like to acknowledge support from STFC grant ST/N000688/1 and the Faculty of Technology at the University of Portsmouth. LG was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programm...
Discovery of a candidate binary supermassive black hole in a periodic quasar fr...
Sobreira, Flávia, 1982-Agradecimentos: We thank the anonymous referee for helpful suggestions that improved the manuscript. XL thanks A. Barth, S. Dodelson, S. Gezari, and A. Palmese for comments; and B. Fields, C. Gammie, K. Gültekin, Z. Haiman, D. Lai, A. Loeb, D. D’Orazio, S. Tremaine, and X.-J. Zhu for discussions; and LCO director Tod Boroson for granting us DDT observation. W.-T. L is supported in part by the Gordon and Betty M...
Dynamical classification of Trans-Neptunian Objects detected by the Dark Energy...
Sobreira, Flávia, 1982-Agradecimentos: Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Kavli...
Dark Energy Survey year 1 results : wide-field mass maps via forward fitting in...
Sobreira, Flávia, 1982-Agradecimentos: BM would like to thank Gary Burton, Paul Carter, Robert Hardwick, and Andrea Petri for useful discussion. DB is supported by STFC consolidated grant ST/S000550/1. Numerical computations were carried out on the Sciama High Performance Compute (HPC) cluster which is supported by the ICG, SEPNet and the University of Portsmouth. Some results in this paper have been derived using the healpix (Górski...
Observation and confirmation of nine strong-lensing systems in Dark Energy Surv...
Sobreira, Flávia, 1982-Agradecimentos: We are grateful for the extraordinary contributions of our CTIO colleagues and the DES Camera, Commissioning, and Science Verification teams for achieving excellent instrument and telescope conditions that have made this work possible. The success of this project also relies critically on the expertise and dedication of the DES Data Management organization. Funding for the DES Projects has been ...
Stellar mass as a galaxy cluster mass proxy : application to the Dark Energy Su...
Sobreira, Flávia, 1982-Agradecimentos: AP acknowledges the UCL PhD studentship and the URA Visiting scholar award. AF is supported by a McWilliams Postdoctoral Fellowship. OL acknowledges support from a European Research Council Advanced Grant FP7/291329. SB acknowledges support from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council via Research Training Grant ST/N504452/1. TOPCAT (Taylor 2005) has been extensively used in this work. ...
Spectral variability of a sample of extreme variability quasars and implication...
Sobreira, Flávia, 1982-Agradecimentos: We thank the referee, Andy Lawrence, for useful comments that improved the manuscript. QY and YS acknowledge support from an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (YS) and NSF grant AST-1715579. We thank Patrick Hall, Tamara Davis, Shu Wang, and Hengxiao Guo for useful discussions and suggestions. Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. National Sc...
Quasar accretion disk sizes from continuum reverberation mapping in the DES sta...
Sobreira, Flávia, 1982-Agradecimentos: We thank the anonymous referee for a thorough and thoughtful report. This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. 1615553. This research was funded partially by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council through project DP160100930. Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Natio...
Detection of cross-correlation between gravitational lensing and gamma rays
Sobreira, Flávia, 1982-Agradecimentos: We warmly acknowledge Mattia Fornasa for his collaboration in the early phases of this project. This work is supported by "Departments of Excellence" grant awarded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) L. 232/2016; research grant "The Anisotropic Dark Universe" No. CSTO161409, funded by Compagnia di Sanpaolo and University of Turin; Research grant TAsP (Theoretical...
Trans-neptunian objects found in the first four years of the Dark Energy Survey
Sobreira, Flávia, 1982-Agradecimentos: University of Pennsylvania authors have been supported in this work by grants AST-1515804 and AST-1615555 from the National Science Foundation, and grant DE-SC0007901 from the Department of Energy. Work at University of Michigan is supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under grant No. NNX17AF21G issued through the SSO Planetary Astronomy Program and NSF Graduate Research...