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.
August 23, 2024 – Studying Cosmic Ripples: The Final DES Measurements of the BAO Signal
Ross Cawthon
August 12, 2024 – Type Ia Supernovae: How DES Used Exploding Stars to Measure Dark Energy
Caio Cavarsan and Ross Cawthon
July 1, 2023 – Finding Distances to Galaxies by Looking at their Neighborhoods
Jonathan Fang
February 21, 2023 – Looking for New Physics: Taming the Hydra
Paul Rogozenski
August 4, 2022 – Confronting models with DES Year 3 data, or: How did we get here, and what’s next?
Jessie Muir
July 29, 2022 – Objects in Mirror are Bluer Than They Appear: What a Galaxy’s Color Says About Its Distance
Justin Myles
July 26, 2022 – How to tease out the tiniest distortions of galaxy shapes to probe the secret of the Universe
Jamie McCullough
July 22, 2022 – Decontaminating our Maps of the Universe
Ellesa Henning
April 23, 2021 – Searching for Sources of Gravitational Waves
Rob Morgan, Mandeep Gill, Clécio R. Bom, Maria Elidaiana da Silva Pereira, Antonella Palmese, Tamara Davis, Alyssa Garcia
August 2, 2019 – Star Bright, Star Dim? Finding Variable Stars in the Dark Energy Survey
Jen Locke
July 26, 2019 – Searching for Explosive Optical Counterparts to IceCube Neutrinos
Jacqueline Beran
June 14, 2019 – Finding Dark Matter: How Mapping Light Tells Us About the Dark
Ross Cawthon
January 17, 2019 – Using Gravitational Waves from Black Holes and Galaxies to Understand the Expansion of the Universe
Antonella Palmese
November 11, 2018 – Finding the Edges of Massive Galaxy Clusters
Tom McClintock and Ross Cawthon
January 17, 2018 – Journey of a Photon – from Camera to Catalog
Rutuparna Das
November 22, 2017 – What the galaxy that hosted the gravitational wave event GW 170817 can teach us about binary neutron stars
Antonella Palmese and Sunayana Bhargava
October 16, 2017 – Gravitational waves tell us how fast the Universe is expanding
Sunayana Bhargava and Kathy Romer
October 16, 2017 – An event that blew away the astronomical world
Mandeep Gill and Ross Cawthon
September 4, 2017 – DES clinches the most precise cosmological results ever extracted from gravitational lensing
Mandeep Gill and Michael Baumer
October 10, 2016 – DES Uses Crowdsourcing to Improve Data Quality
Jacob Robertson, Ross Cawthon, Peter Melchior
August 1, 2016 – DES CLASHes onto the Scene
Rachel C. Wolf, Ross Cawthon, Antonella Palmese
July 19, 2016 – Warped Perspectives: Discovery of Six New Strong Gravitational Lenses
Ross Cawthon, Brian Nord
June 6, 2016 – Even Supernovae Need a Matchmaker
Rachel C. Wolf, Ross Cawthon, Ravi Gupta
April 29, 2016 – A Newly Discovered Superluminous Supernova
Rachel C. Wolf, Ross Cawthon, Mathew Smith
February 6, 2016 – Connecting the past and present cosmic epochs with gravitational lensing
Rachel C. Wolf, Ross Cawthon, Donnacha Kirk, Yuuki Omori
January 15, 2016 – Exploring the distribution of dark and visible matter with gravitational lensing
Rachel C. Wolf, Ross Cawthon, Arnau Pujol, Chihway Chang
December 1, 2015 – How fast are the stars moving in the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, Reticulum II?
Rachel C. Wolf, Brian Nord, Josh Simon, Alex Drlica-Wagner
November 20, 2015 – Gravitational lensing by galaxies is responsible for some distortions in Cosmic Microwave Background Light
Rachel C. Wolf, Anthony Kremin, Ross Cawthon
November 13, 2015 – Weak gravitational lensing reveals empty regions of space
Rachel C. Wolf, Anthony Kremin, Daniel Gruen
August 14, 2015 – The software pipeline that finds exploding stars
Rick Kessler
May 26, 2015 – Four massive galaxy clusters explored in DES data
Rachel C. Wolf, Eric Suchyta, Eric Huff, Peter Melchior
May 10, 2015 – Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from DES Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Candidates with Fermi-LAT Data
Rachel C. Wolf, Brian Nord, Keith Bechtol, Alex Drlica-Wagner
March 10, 2015 – Eight New Milky Way Companions Discovered in First-Year Dark Energy Survey Data
Keith Bechtol and Alex Drlica-Wagner
January 29, 2015 – The First Superluminous Supernova from the Dark Energy Survey: DES13S2cmm
Rachel C. Wolf, Brian Nord, Andreas Papadopoulos, Chris D’Andrea