Abbott, TMC;
Adamow, M;
Aguena, M;
Allam, S;
Amon, A;
Annis, J;
Avila, S;
... Vila-Verde, G; + view all
(2021)
The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2.
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
, 255
(2)
, Article 20. 10.3847/1538-4365/ac00b3.
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Abstract
We present the second public data release of the Dark Energy Survey, DES DR2, based on optical/near-infrared imaging by the Dark Energy Camera mounted on the 4 m Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. DES DR2 consists of reduced single-epoch and coadded images, a source catalog derived from coadded images, and associated data products assembled from 6 yr of DES science operations. This release includes data from the DES wide-area survey covering ~5000 deg2 of the southern Galactic cap in five broad photometric bands, grizY. DES DR2 has a median delivered point-spread function FWHM of g = 1.11'', r = 0.95'', i = 0.88'', z = 0.83'', and Y = 0farcs90, photometric uniformity with a standard deviation of < 3 mmag with respect to Gaia DR2 G band, a photometric accuracy of ~11 mmag, and a median internal astrometric precision of ~27 mas. The median coadded catalog depth for a 1farcs95 diameter aperture at signal-to-noise ratio = 10 is g = 24.7, r = 24.4, i = 23.8, z = 23.1, and Y = 21.7 mag. DES DR2 includes ~691 million distinct astronomical objects detected in 10,169 coadded image tiles of size 0.534 deg2 produced from 76,217 single-epoch images. After a basic quality selection, benchmark galaxy and stellar samples contain 543 million and 145 million objects, respectively. These data are accessible through several interfaces, including interactive image visualization tools, web-based query clients, image cutout servers, and Jupyter notebooks. DES DR2 constitutes the largest photometric data set to date at the achieved depth and photometric precision.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4365/ac00b3 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac00b3 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Dark energy, Cosmology, Extragalactic astronomy, Surveys, Redshift surveys, Optical astronomy, Near infrared astronomy, WHITE-DWARFS, STANDARD STARS, ANGULAR MASKS, IMAGES, PHOTOMETRY |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10132687 |
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