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.
Journey of a Photon – from Camera to Catalog
This DArchive describes some of the process in making the Dark Energy Survey data set described in ‘Dark Energy Survey … Read more »
What the galaxy that hosted the gravitational wave event GW170817 can teach us about binary neutron stars
Astronomers know many facts about galaxies. For example, we know that their colours tell us about the stars inside them and … Read more »
Gravitational waves tell us how fast the Universe is expanding
Link to the Nature paper that this DArchive describes. On August 17th 2017, three detectors on Earth observed a gravitational wave … Read more »
An event that blew away the astronomical world
On the morning of Thursday, August 17, 2017 the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC) gravitational wave detectors picked up a signal indicating … Read more »
DES clinches the most precise cosmological results ever extracted from gravitational lensing
For decades, cosmologists have been attempting to piece together the history and composition of the Universe. This is a very … Read more »
DES Uses Crowdsourcing to Improve Data Quality
There is power in numbers. If a large number of people apply their brainpower, creativity, or even physical effort toward … Read more »
DES CLASHes onto the Scene
Scientists of the Dark Energy Survey recently compared their measurements of a galaxy cluster to those found using data from … Read more »
Warped Perspectives: Discovery of Six New Strong Gravitational Lenses
The Dark Energy Survey has discovered six new ‘strong gravitational lenses’, extreme examples of Albert Einstein’s space-warping Theory of General … Read more »
Even Supernovae Need a Matchmaker
Dark Energy Survey scientists have developed a new algorithm to match Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) to their host galaxies. … Read more »
A Newly Discovered Superluminous Supernova
In this paper we present DES14X3taz, a newly discovered superluminous supernova (SLSN). This particular SLSN is very unusual – if … Read more »
