Here you’ll find descriptions, written for a public audience, of science released by the DES collaboration. Have a question? Check out the FAQ or email our team.
Finding Distances to Galaxies by Looking at their Neighborhoods
This Darchive describes one of the methods used by DES to estimate galaxy redshifts for cosmological studies. It is based … Read more »
Looking for New Physics: Taming the Hydra
This Darchive describes our year-3 analysis comparing various ‘extension’ models of cosmology to our galaxy clustering and weak lensing data. … Read more »
Confronting models with DES Year 3 data, or: How did we get here, and what’s next?
This Darchive is a reposting of this article from KIPAC research highlights: https://kipac.stanford.edu/highlights/confronting-models-des-year-3-data-or-how-did-we-get-here-and-whats-next This article is based on the work … Read more »
Objects In Mirror Are Bluer Than They Appear: What a Galaxy’s Color Says About Its Distance
This Darchive is a reposting of this article from KIPAC research highlights: https://kipac.stanford.edu/highlights/objects-mirror-are-bluer-they-appear-what-galaxys-color-says-about-its-distance This article is based on the work … Read more »
How to tease out the tiniest distortions of galaxy shapes to probe the secrets of the Universe
This Darchive is a reposting of this article from KIPAC research highlights: https://kipac.stanford.edu/highlights/how-tease-out-tiniest-distortions-galaxy-shapes-probe-secrets-universe This article is based on … Read more »
Decontaminating our Maps of the Universe
This Darchive describes how we remove biases in our galaxy catalogs for cosmological studies. It is based on this paper: … Read more »
Searching for Sources of Gravitational Waves
The entire astrophysical world was blown away by the first-ever binary neutron star collision seen in August 2017 (called ‘GW170817’). … Read more »
Star Bright, Star Dim? Finding Variable Stars in the Dark Energy Survey
This Darchive describe the search for a special type of star, RR Lyrae, in DES data. It is based on … Read more »
Searching for Explosive Optical Counterparts to IceCube Neutrinos
This DArchive discusses the collaboration of DES and the IceCube Observatory in investigating the origin of astrophysical neutrinos, described in … Read more »
Finding Dark Matter: How Mapping Light Tells Us About the Dark
This darchive discusses work from a few DES papers in describing how we learn about dark matter (and indirectly, dark … Read more »
