The Dark Energy Survey Weak Lensing Working Group has completed papers on its Science Verification data; others are in preparation. Please click on the paper titles to view selected figures from each paper.

Preprint papers

Cosmology from Cosmic Shear with DES Science Verification Data The DES Collaboration 2015
Arxiv

Cosmic Shear Measurements with DES Science Verification Data M. R. Becker, M. A. Troxel, N. MacCrann, E. Krause, T. F. Eifler, O. Friedrich, A. Nicola, A. Refregier, A. Amara, D. Bacon, G. M. Bernstein, C. Bonnett, S. L. Bridle, M. T. Busha, C. Chang, S. Dodelson, B. Erickson, A. E. Evrard, J. Frieman, E. Gaztanaga, D. Gruen, W. Hartley, B. Jain, M. Jarvis, T. Kacprzak, D. Kirk, A. Kravtsov, B. Leistedt, E. S. Rykoff, C. Sabiu, C. Sanchez, H. Seo, E. Sheldon, R. H. Wechsler, J. Zuntz, and The DES Collaboration 2015
Arxiv

Weak Lensing by Galaxy Troughs in DES Science Verification Data D. Gruen, O. Friedrich, A. Amara, D. Bacon, C. Bonnett, W. Hartley, B. Jain, M. Jarvis, T. Kacprzak, E. Krause7, A. Mana, E. Rozo, E. S. Rykoff, S. Seitz, E. Sheldon, M. A. Troxel, V. Vikram, and The DES Collaboration, 2015
Arxiv

Redshift Distributions of Galaxies in the DES Science Verification Shear Catalogue and Implications for Weak Lensing
C. Bonnett, M. A. Troxel, W. Hartley, A. Amara, B. Leistedt, M. R. Becker, G. M. Bernstein, S. L. Bridle, C. Bruderer, M. T. Busha, M. Carrasco Kind, M. J. Childress, F. J. Castander, C. Chang, M. Crocce, T. M. Davis, T. F. Eifler, J. Frieman, E. Gaztanaga, D. Gruen, T. Kacprzak, J. Kwan, O. Lahav, G. Lewis, C. Lidman, H. Lin, N. MacCrann, R. Miquel, C. R. O’Neill, A. Palmese, H.V. Peiris, A. Refregier, E. Rozo, E. S. Rykoff, I. Sadeh, C. Sanchez, S. Uddin, R. H. Wechsler, J. Zuntz, and The DES Collaboration 2015

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 2015
Arxiv

Wide-Field Lensing Mass Maps from DES Science Verification Data: Methodology and Detailed Analysis
Vikram, V., Chang, C., Jain, B., Bacon, D., Amara, A.,
Becker, M., Bernstein, G., Bonnett, C., Bridle, S., Brout, D., Busha, M., Frieman, J., Gaztanaga, E., Hartley, W., Jarvis, M., Kacprzak, T., Lahav, O., Leistedt, B., Lin, H., Melchior, P., Peiris, H., Rozo, E., Rykoff, E., Sanchez, C., Sheldon, E., Troxel, M., Wechsler, Zuntz, J., and DES Builders 2015

Arxiv

Wide-Field Lensing Mass Maps from DES Science Verification Data (Letter)
Chang, C., Vikram, V., Jain, B., Bacon, D., Amara, A.,
Becker, M., Bernstein, G., Bonnett, C., Bridle, S., Brout, D., Busha, M., Frieman, J., Gaztanaga, E., Hartley, W., Jarvis, M., Kacprzak, T., Lahav, O., Leistedt, B., Lin, H., Melchior, P., Peiris, H., Rozo, E., Rykoff, E., Sanchez, C., Sheldon, E., Troxel, M., Wechsler, Zuntz, J., and DES Builders 2015

Arxiv

Calibrated Ultra Fast Image Simulations for the Dark Energy Survey Bruderer, C., Chang, C., Refregier, A., Amara, A., Berge, J., Gamper, L.
ADS - Arxiv

Published papers

Mass and galaxy distributions of four massive galaxy clusters from Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data
Melchior, P. Suchyta, E., Huff, E., Hirsch, M., Kacprzak, T., Rykoff, E., Gruen, D., Armstrong, R., Bacon, D., Bechtol, K., Bernstein, G., Bridle, S., Clampitt, J., Honscheid, K., Jain, B., Jouvel, S., Krause, E., Lin, H., MacCrann, N., Patton, K., Plazas, A., Rowe, B., Vikram, V, Wilcox, H., Young, J., Zuntz, J. and DES Builders, 2014
ADS - Arxiv - Published version

The impact of camera optical alignments on weak lensing measures for the Dark Energy Survey
Antonik, M., Bacon, D., Bridle, S., Doel, P., Brooks, D., Worswick, S.,
Bernstein, G., Bernstein, R., DePoy, D., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., Gladders, M., Gutierrez, G., Jain, B., Jarvis, M., Kent, S., Lahav, O., Roodman, A., Walker, A.

ADS - Arxiv - Published version

Papers on DES shear pipelines

IM3SHAPE: A maximum-likelihood galaxy shear measurement code for cosmic gravitational lensing
Zuntz, J., Kacprzak, T., Voigt, L., Hirsch, M., Rowe, B., Bridle, S.
ADS - Arxiv - Published version

An Implementation of Bayesian Lensing Shear Measurement
Sheldon, E.
ADS - Arxiv - Published version