The Dark Energy Survey: Data Release 1 Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We describe the first public data release of the Dark Energy Survey, DES DR1, consisting of reduced single-epoch images, co-added images, co-added source catalogs, and associated products and services assembled over the first 3 yr of DES science operations. DES DR1 is based on optical/near-infrared imaging from 345 distinct nights (2013 August to 2016 February) by the Dark Energy Camera mounted on the 4 m Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. We release data from the DES wide-area survey covering 5000 deg2 of the southern Galactic cap in five broad photometric bands, grizY. DES DR1 has a median delivered point-spread function of g = 1.12, r = 0.96, i = 0.88, z = 0.84, and Y = 0.90 FWHM, a photometric precision of <1% in all bands, and an astrometric precision of 151 . The median co-added catalog depth for a 1.95 diameter aperture at signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) = 10 is g = 24.33, r = 24.08, i = 23.44, z = 22.69, and Y = 21.44. DES DR1 includes nearly 400 million distinct astronomical objects detected in 10,000 co-add tiles of size 0.534 deg2 produced from 39,000 individual exposures. Benchmark galaxy and stellar samples contain 310 million and 80 million objects, respectively, following a basic object quality selection. These data are accessible through a range of interfaces, including query web clients, image cutout servers, jupyter notebooks, and an interactive co-add image visualization tool. DES DR1 constitutes the largest photometric data set to date at the achieved depth and photometric precision.

published proceedings

  • ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES

altmetric score

  • 57.446

author list (cited authors)

  • Abbott, T., Abdalla, F. B., Allam, S., Amara, A., Annis, J., Asorey, J., ... Scott, A.

citation count

  • 467

complete list of authors

  • Abbott, TMC||Abdalla, FB||Allam, S||Amara, A||Annis, J||Asorey, J||Avila, S||Ballester, O||Banerji, M||Barkhouse, W||Baruah, L||Baumer, M||Bechtol, K||Becker, MR||Benoit-Levy, A||Bernstein, GM||Bertin, E||Blazek, J||Bocquet, S||Brooks, D||Brout, D||Buckley-Geer, E||Burke, DL||Busti, V||Campisano, R||Cardiel-Sas, L||Rosell, A Carnero||Kind, M Carrasco||Carretero, J||Castander, FJ||Cawthon, R||Chang, C||Chen, X||Conselice, C||Costa, G||Crocce, M||Cunha, CE||D'Andrea, CB||da Costa, LN||Das, R||Daues, G||Davis, TM||Davis, C||De Vicente, J||Depoy, DL||DeRose, J||Desai, S||Diehl, HT||Dietrich, JP||Dodelson, S||Doel, P||Drlica-Wagner, A||Eifler, TF||Elliott, AE||Evrard, AE||Farahi, A||Fausti Neto, A||Fernandez, E||Finley, DA||Flaugher, B||Foley, RJ||Fosalba, P||Friedel, DN||Frieman, J||Garcia-Bellido, J||Gaztanaga, E||Gerdes, DW||Giannantonio, T||Gill, MSS||Glazebrook, K||Goldstein, DA||Gower, M||Gruen, D||Gruendl, RA||Gschwend, J||Gupta, RR||Gutierrez, G||Hamilton, S||Hartley, WG||Hinton, SR||Hislop, JM||Hollowood, D||Honscheid, K||Hoyle, B||Huterer, D||Jain, B||James, DJ||Jeltema, T||Johnson, MWG||Johnson, MD||Kacprzak, T||Kent, S||Khullar, G||Klein, M||Kovacs, A||Koziol, AMG||Krause, E||Kremin, A||Kron, R||Kuehn, K||Kuhlmann, S||Kuropatkin, N||Lahav, O||Lasker, J||Li, TS||Li, RT||Liddle, AR||Lima, M||Lin, H||Lopez-Reyes, P||MacCrann, N||Maia, MAG||Maloney, JD||Manera, M||March, M||Marriner, J||Marshall, JL||Martini, P||McClintock, T||McKay, T||McMahon, RG||Melchior, P||Menanteau, F||Miller, CJ||Miquel, R||Mohr, JJ||Morganson, E||Mould, J||Neilsen, E||Nichol, RC||Nogueira, F||Nord, B||Nugent, P||Nunes, L||Ogando, RLC||Old, L||Pace, AB||Palmese, A||Paz-Chinchon, F||Peiris, HV||Percival, WJ||Petravick, D||Plazas, AA||Poh, J||Pond, C||Porredon, A||Pujol, A||Refregier, A||Reil, K||Ricker, PM||Rollins, RP||Romer, AK||Roodman, A||Rooney, P||Ross, AJ||Rykoff, ES||Sako, M||Sanchez, ML||Sanchez, E||Santiago, B||Saro, A||Scarpine, V||Scolnic, D||Serrano, S||Sevilla-Noarbe, I||Sheldon, E||Shipp, N||Silveira, ML||Smith, M||Smith, RC||Smith, JA||Soares-Santos, M||Sobreira, F||Song, J||Stebbins, A||Suchyta, E||Sullivan, M||Swanson, MEC||Tarle, G||Thaler, J||Thomas, D||Thomas, RC||Troxel, MA||Tucker, DL||Vikram, V||Vivas, AK||Walker, AR||Wechsler, RH||Weller, J||Wester, W||Wolf, RC||Wu, H||Yanny, B||Zenteno, A||Zhang, Y||Zuntz, J||Juneau, S||Fitzpatrick, M||Nikutta, R||Nidever, D||Olsen, K||Scott, A

publication date

  • December 2018