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.
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 »
Using Gravitational Waves from Black Holes and Galaxies to Understand the Expansion of the Universe
In this Darchive, a new technique to understand the expansion of the Universe from black-hole merger gravitational wave events (“dark … Read more »
