The DES Science Verification Weak Lensing Shear Catalogs

M. Jarvis, E. Sheldon, J. Zuntz, T. Kacprzak, S. L. Bridle, A. Amara, R. Armstrong, M. R. Becker, G. M. Bernstein, C. Bonnett, C. Chang, R. Das, J. P. Dietrich, A. Drlica-Wagner, T. F. Eifler, C. Gangkofner, D. Gruen, M. Hirsch, E. M. Huff, B. Jain, S. Kent, N. MacCrann, P. Melchior, A. A. Plazas, A. Refregier, B. Rowe, E. S. Rykoff, S. Samuroff, C. Sanchez, E. Suchyta, M. A. Troxel, V. Vikram, and The DES Collaboration

Key figures from the paper:


Magnitude distribution of galaxies surviving cuts




Flow chart illustrating the stages in our shear measurement process




Rho statistic number 1 (autocorrelation of PSF modelling residuals)




Tangential shear around field centers




B modes in the shear power spectra