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A. A. Plazas
Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Publications - 46
Citations - 2971
A. A. Plazas is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Redshift & Galaxy. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 46 publications receiving 2553 citations.
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The Dark Energy Camera
B. Flaugher,H. T. Diehl,K. Honscheid,T. M. C. Abbott,O. Alvarez,R. Angstadt,J. Annis,M. Antonik,O. Ballester,L. Beaufore,Gary Bernstein,Rebecca A. Bernstein,B. Bigelow,Marco Bonati,D. Boprie,David J. Brooks,E. Buckley-Geer,J. Campa,Laia Cardiel-Sas,Francisco J. Castander,Javier Castilla,H. Cease,J. M. Cela-Ruiz,Steve Chappa,Edward C. Chi,C. Cooper,L. N. da Costa,E. Dede,G. Derylo,Darren L. DePoy,J. De Vicente,P. Doel,Alex Drlica-Wagner,J. Eiting,Ann Elliott,J. Emes,Juan Estrada,A. Fausti Neto,D. A. Finley,R. Flores,Josh Frieman,D. W. Gerdes,Michael D. Gladders,B. Gregory,G. Gutierrez,Jiangang Hao,S.E. Holland,Scott Holm,D. Huffman,Cheryl Jackson,David J. James,M. Jonas,Armin Karcher,I. Karliner,Steve Kent,Richard Kessler,Mark Kozlovsky,Richard G. Kron,Donna Kubik,K. Kuehn,S. E. Kuhlmann,K. Kuk,O. Lahav,A. Lathrop,J. Lee,Michael Levi,Peter Lewis,Tianjun Li,I. Mandrichenko,Jennifer L. Marshall,G. Martinez,K. W. Merritt,Ramon Miquel,F. Munoz,Eric H. Neilsen,Robert C. Nichol,Brian Nord,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Jamieson Olsen,N. Palio,K. Patton,John Peoples,A. A. Plazas,J. Rauch,Kevin Reil,J.-P. Rheault,Natalie A. Roe,H. Rogers,A. Roodman,E. J. Sanchez,V. Scarpine,R. H. Schindler,Ricardo Schmidt,R. Schmitt,Michael Schubnell,Katherine Schultz,P. Schurter,L. Scott,S. Serrano,Terri Shaw,Robert Connon Smith,Marcelle Soares-Santos,A. Stefanik,W. Stuermer,E. Suchyta,A. Sypniewski,G. Tarle,Jon J Thaler,R. Tighe,C. Tran,Douglas L. Tucker,Alistair R. Walker,G. Wang,M. G. Watson,Curtis Weaverdyck,W. C. Wester,Robert J. Woods,B. Yanny +117 more
TL;DR: The Dark Energy Camera as discussed by the authors was designed and constructed by the Dark Energy Survey Collaboration, and meets or exceeds the stringent requirements designed for the wide-field and supernova surveys for which the collaboration uses it.
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The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Dark Energy Camera Discovery of the Optical Counterpart
Marcelle Soares-Santos,Daniel E. Holz,J. Annis,R. Chornock,K. Herner,Edo Berger,D. J. Brout,Huanqing Chen,Richard Kessler,M. Sako,S. Allam,Douglas L. Tucker,R. E. Butler,Antonella Palmese,Z. Doctor,H. T. Diehl,Josh Frieman,B. Yanny,Huan Lin,Daniel Scolnic,Philip S. Cowperthwaite,Eric H. Neilsen,J. P. Marriner,N. Kuropatkin,W. G. Hartley,F. Paz-Chinchón,Kate D. Alexander,Eduardo Balbinot,P. K. Blanchard,Duncan A. Brown,Jeffrey L. Carlin,C. J. Conselice,Edward R. Cook,Alex Drlica-Wagner,Maria R. Drout,Florence Durret,Tarraneh Eftekhari,Ben Farr,D. A. Finley,Ryan J. Foley,Wen-fai Fong,Chris L. Fryer,Juan Garcia-Bellido,M. S. S. Gill,Robert A. Gruendl,Chad Hanna,Dan Kasen,Tianjun Li,Paulo A. A. Lopes,A. C. C. Lourenço,Raffaella Margutti,Jennifer L. Marshall,Thomas Matheson,G. E. Medina,Brian D. Metzger,Ricardo R. Muñoz,J. Muir,Matt Nicholl,Eliot Quataert,Armin Rest,M. Sauseda,David J. Schlegel,L. F. Secco,Flavia Sobreira,Albert Stebbins,V. A. Villar,Alistair R. Walker,W. C. Wester,Peter K. G. Williams,Alfredo Zenteno,Y. Zhang,T. M. C. Abbott,F. B. Abdalla,M. Banerji,Keith Bechtol,A. Benoit-Lévy,E. Bertin,David J. Brooks,E. Buckley-Geer,D. L. Burke,A. Carnero Rosell,M. Carrasco Kind,J. Carretero,F. J. Castander,Martin Crocce,Carlos E. Cunha,C. B. D'Andrea,L. N. da Costa,Christopher J. Davis,S. Desai,J. P. Dietrich,P. Doel,T. F. Eifler,Enrique J. Fernández,B. Flaugher,P. Fosalba,Enrique Gaztanaga,D. W. Gerdes,Tommaso Giannantonio,David Goldstein,Daniel Gruen,J. Gschwend,G. Gutierrez,K. Honscheid,Bhuvnesh Jain,David J. James,T. Jeltema,Marvin Johnson,Michael D. Johnson,Steve Kent,Elisabeth Krause,Richard G. Kron,K. Kuehn,S. E. Kuhlmann,O. Lahav,Marcos Lima,M. A. G. Maia,M. March,Richard G. McMahon,Felipe Menanteau,Ramon Miquel,Joseph J. Mohr,Robert C. Nichol,B. Nord,R. L. C. Ogando,Don Petravick,A. A. Plazas,A. K. Romer,A. Roodman,E. S. Rykoff,E. J. Sanchez,V. Scarpine,Michael Schubnell,I. Sevilla-Noarbe,M. N. K. Smith,R. C. Smith,E. Suchyta,M. E. C. Swanson,G. Tarle,Daniel Thomas,R. C. Thomas,Michael Troxel,Vinu Vikram,Risa H. Wechsler,Jochen Weller +144 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the optical counterpart of the first binary neutron star merger detected through gravitational wave emission, GW170817, was detected near the nucleus of NGC\,4993 at redshift $z=0.0098.
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Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation in Recently Discovered Milky Way Satellites with Fermi-LAT
Fermi-LAT,Des Collaborations,Arnauld Albert,Brandon Anderson,Keith Bechtol,Alex Drlica-Wagner,Manuel Meyer,Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde,Louis E. Strigari,Mackenna L. Wood,T. M. C. Abbott,F. B. Abdalla,A. Benoit-Lévy,Gary Bernstein,Rebecca A. Bernstein,E. Bertin,David J. Brooks,D. L. Burke,A. Carnero Rosell,M. Carrasco Kind,J. Carretero,Martin Crocce,Carlos E. Cunha,C. B. D'Andrea,L. N. da Costa,Shantanu Desai,H. T. Diehl,J. P. Dietrich,P. Doel,Tim Eifler,August E. Evrard,A. Fausti Neto,D. A. Finley,B. Flaugher,Pablo Fosalba,Joshua A. Frieman,D. W. Gerdes,Daniel A. Goldstein,Daniel Gruen,Robert A. Gruendl,K. Honscheid,David J. James,Steve Kent,Kyler Kuehn,N. Kuropatkin,Ofer Lahav,Tianjun Li,Marcio A. G. Maia,M. March,Jennifer L. Marshall,Paul Martini,Christopher J. Miller,Ramon Miquel,Eric H. Neilsen,Brian Nord,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,A. A. Plazas,Kevin Reil,A. K. Romer,E. S. Rykoff,E. J. Sanchez,Basilio X. Santiago,Michael Schubnell,I. Sevilla-Noarbe,Robert Connon Smith,Marcelle Soares-Santos,Flavia Sobreira,E. Suchyta,M. E. C. Swanson,Gregory Tarle,Vinu Vikram,Alistair R. Walker,Risa H. Wechsler +72 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors search for excess gamma-ray emission coincident with the positions of confirmed and candidate Milky Way satellite galaxies using 6 years of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT).
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Constraints on Dark Matter Properties from Observations of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies
Ethan O. Nadler,Alex Drlica-Wagner,Keith Bechtol,S. Mau,Risa H. Wechsler,Vera Gluscevic,Kimberly K. Boddy,Andrew B. Pace,Tenglin Li,M. McNanna,A. H. Riley,Juan Garcia-Bellido,Yao-Yuan Mao,Gregory M. Green,D. L. Burke,Annika H. G. Peter,Bhuvnesh Jain,T. M. C. Abbott,Michel Aguena,S. Allam,J. Annis,Salcedo Romero de Ávila,David J. Brooks,M. Carrasco Kind,J. Carretero,M. Costanzi,L. N. da Costa,J. De Vicente,S. Desai,H. T. Diehl,P. Doel,S. Everett,August E. Evrard,B. Flaugher,Josh Frieman,D. W. Gerdes,Daniel Gruen,Robert A. Gruendl,J. Gschwend,G. Gutierrez,Samuel Hinton,K. Honscheid,Dragan Huterer,David J. James,Elisabeth Krause,Kyler Kuehn,N. Kuropatkin,Ofer Lahav,M. A. G. Maia,Jennifer L. Marshall,Felipe Menanteau,Ramon Miquel,Antonella Palmese,F. Paz-Chinchón,A. A. Plazas,A. K. Romer,E. J. Sanchez,V. Scarpine,S. Serrano,I. Sevilla-Noarbe,M. Smith,Marcelle Soares-Santos,E. Suchyta,M. E. C. Swanson,G. Tarle,Douglas L. Tucker,A. R. Walker,W. C. Wester +67 more
TL;DR: This analysis fully incorporates inhomogeneities in the spatial distribution and detectability of MW satellites and marginalizes over uncertainties in the mapping between galaxies and DM halos, the properties of the MW system, and the disruption of subhalos by the MW disk.
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The Difference Imaging Pipeline for the Transient Search in the Dark Energy Survey
Richard Kessler,J. P. Marriner,M. J. Childress,R. Covarrubias,C. B. D'Andrea,D. A. Finley,J. L. Fischer,Ryan J. Foley,David Goldstein,R. R. Gupta,Kyler Kuehn,M. J. Marcha,Robert C. Nichol,A. Papadopoulos,M. Sako,Daniel Scolnic,Mathew Smith,Mark Sullivan,W. C. Wester,Fang Yuan,T. M. C. Abbott,F. B. Abdalla,S. Allam,A. Benoit-Lévy,Gary Bernstein,E. Bertin,David J. Brooks,A. Carnero Rosell,M. Carrasco Kind,Francisco J. Castander,Martin Crocce,L. N. da Costa,S. Desai,H. T. Diehl,Tim Eifler,A. Fausti Neto,B. Flaugher,Joshua A. Frieman,Daniel Gruen,Robert A. Gruendl,K. Honscheid,David J. James,N. Kuropatkin,Tianjun Li,M. A. G. Maia,Jennifer L. Marshall,P. Martini,C. J. Miller,Ramon Miquel,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,A. A. Plazas,A. K. Romer,A. Roodman,E. J. Sanchez,I. Sevilla-Noarbe,Robert Connon Smith,Marcelle Soares-Santos,Flavia Sobreira,G. Tarle,J. J. Thaler,R. C. Thomas,Douglas L. Tucker,Alistair R. Walker +62 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the difference imaging pipeline (DiffImg) used to detect transients in deep images from the DES-SN in its first observing season from Aug 2013 through Feb 2014.