Dark energy survey year 3 results: weak lensing shape catalogue

Journal Article · Mon Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab918· OSTI ID:1782761

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1. Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
2. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bldg 510, Upton, NY 11973, USA
3. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, P.O. Box 2450, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
4. Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
5. Department of Physics, Duke University Durham, NC 27708, USA
6. Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
7. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
8. Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
9. Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-859, Campinas, SP, Brazil
10. Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
11. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, P.O. Box 2450, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, Department of Physics, Stanford University, 382 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
12. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
13. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
14. Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), E-08034 Barcelona, Spain, Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC), Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, s/n, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
15. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
16. Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
17. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, P.O. Box 2450, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
18. Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
19. Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile
20. Departamento de Física Matemática, Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, São Paulo, SP 05314-970, Brazil, Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia – LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ-20921-400, Brazil
21. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
22. Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
23. Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK
24. CNRS, UMR 7095, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, F-75014, Paris, France, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7095, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, F-75014, Paris, France
25. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Pevensey Building, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
26. Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
27. Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, E-38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, Universidad de La Laguna, Dpto. Astrofísica, E-38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
28. Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 West Clark St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
29. Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK, University of Nottingham, School of Physics and Astronomy, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
30. INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, via G. B. Tiepolo 11, I-34143 Trieste, Italy, Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe, Via Beirut 2, I-34014 Trieste, Italy
31. Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ-20921-400, Brazil, Observatório Nacional, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ-20921-400, Brazil
32. School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
33. Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), 0000-0003-3044-5150 Madrid, Spain
34. Department of Physics, IIT Hyderabad, Kandi, Telangana 502285, India
35. Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 Munich, Germany
36. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
37. Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
38. Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1029 Blindern, NO-0315 Oslo, Norway
39. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
40. Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
41. Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
42. Département de Physique Théorique and Center for Astroparticle Physics, Université de Genève, 24 quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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44. Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 Munich, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85748 Garching, Germany, Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 München, Germany
45. Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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47. Department of Astronomy/Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721-0065, USA
48. Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia – LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ-20921-400, Brazil
49. George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
50. Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, E-08010 Barcelona, Spain
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55. Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15312, USA
56. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
57. Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
58. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 West Clark St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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We present and characterize the galaxy shape catalogue from the first 3 yr of Dark Energy Survey (DES) observations, over an effective area of 4143 deg² of the southern sky. Here, we describe our data analysis process and our self-calibrating shear measurement pipeline metacalibration, which builds and improves upon the pipeline used in the DES Year 1 analysis in several aspects. The DES Year 3 weak-lensing shape catalogue consists of 100 204 026 galaxies, measured in the riz bands, resulting in a weighted source number density of n_eff = 5.59 gal arcmin^–2 and corresponding shape noise σ_e = 0.261. We perform a battery of internal null tests on the catalogue, including tests on systematics related to the point spread function (PSF) modelling, spurious catalogue B-mode signals, catalogue contamination, and galaxy properties.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
• Contributing Organization: DES Collaboration
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-98CH10886; AC02-07CH11359; SC0012704; AC02-76SF00515; 15-WFIRST15-0008; AC05-00OR22725; AC02-06CH11357; SC0019193
• OSTI ID: 1782761
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1764134; OSTI ID: 1805231; OSTI ID: 1805735; OSTI ID: 1817465; OSTI ID: 1840044; OSTI ID: 1872548
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-PUB-20-545-AE; DES-2015-0048; arXiv:2011.03408; BNL-221747-2021-JAAM
• Journal Information: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Journal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 504 Journal Issue: 3; ISSN 0035-8711
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• Language: English

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