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1. Metallicity Distribution of Galactic Halo Field RR Lyrae, and the Effect of Metallicity on their Pulsation Properties

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Marengo, M., Mullen, J. P., Neeley, J. R., Fabrizio, M., Marrese, P. M., Bono, G., Braga, V. F., Magurno, D., Crestani, J., Fiorentino, G., Monelli, M., Chaboyer, B., Gilligan, C. K., Dall'Ora, M., Martinez-Vazquez, C. E., Thevenin, F., Matsunaga, N., and Marengo, M., Mullen, J., Neeley, J. R., Fabrizio, M., Marrese, P. M., Bono, G., Braga, V. F., Magurno, D., Crestani, J., Fiorentino, G., Monelli, M., Chaboyer, B., Gilligan, C. K., Dall’Ora, M., Martínez-Vázquez, C. E., Thévenin, F., Matsunaga, N.

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Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, RR Lyrae, Metallicity, Photometry, Oosterhoff Dichotomy, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

We present our analysis of a large sample (over 150k) of candidate Galactic RR Lyrae (RRL) stars for which we derived high quality photometry at UV, optical and infrared wavelengths, using data from publicly available surveys. For a sub-sample of these stars (~2,400 fundamental mode field RRLs) we have measured their individual metallicity using the Delta S method, resulting in the largest and most homogeneous spectroscopic data set collected for RRLs. We use this sample to study the metallicity distribution in the Galactic Halo, including the long-standing problem of the Oosterhoff dichotomy among Galactic globular clusters. We also analyze the dependence of their pulsation properties, and in particular the shape of their infrared light curves, from their [Fe/H] abundance., Proc. of "The RR Lyrae and Cepheid Conference 2019: Frontiers of Classical Pulsators - Theory and Observations", held in Cloudcroft, NM, 13-18 October 2019

Published
2020

2. Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

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Dey, Arjun, Schlegel, David J., Lang, Dustin, Blum, Robert, Burleigh, Kaylan, Fan, Xiaohui, Findlay, Joseph R., Finkbeiner, Doug, Herrera, David, Juneau, Stephanie, Landriau, Martin, Levi, Michael, McGreer, Ian, Meisner, Aaron, Myers, Adam D., Moustakas, John, Nugent, Peter, Patej, Anna, Schlafly, Edward F., Walker, Alistair R., Valdes, Francisco, Weaver, Benjamin A., Yèche, Christophe, Zou, Hu, Zhou, Xu, Abareshi, Behzad, Abbott, T. M. C., Abolfathi, Bela, Aguilera, C., Alam, Shadab, Allen, Lori, Alvarez, A., Annis, James, Ansarinejad, Behzad, Aubert, Marie, Beechert, Jacqueline, Bell, Eric F., BenZvi, Segev Y., Beutler, Florian, Bielby, Richard M., Bolton, Adam S., Briceño, César, Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth J., Butler, Karen, Calamida, Annalisa, Carlberg, Raymond G., Carter, Paul, Casas, Ricard, Castander, Francisco J., Choi, Yumi, Comparat, Johan, Cukanovaite, Elena, Delubac, Timothee, DeVries, Kaitlin, Dey, Sharmila, Dhungana, Govinda, Dickinson, Mark, Ding, Zhejie, Donaldson, John B., Duan, Yutong, Duckworth, Christopher J., Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Etourneau, Thomas, Fagrelius, Parker A., Farihi, Jay, Fitzpatrick, Mike, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Fulmer, Leah, Gansicke, Boris T., Gaztanaga, Enrique, George, Koshy, Gerdes, David W., Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A., Gorgoni, Claudio, Green, Gregory, Guy, Julien, Harmer, Diane, Hernandez, M., Honscheid, Klaus, Lijuan, Huang, W., James, David, Jannuzi, Buell T., Jiang, Linhua, Joyce, Richard, Karcher, Armin, Karkar, Sonia, Kehoe, Robert, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kueter-Young, Andrea, Lan, Ting-Wen, Lauer, Tod, Guillou, Laurent Le, Suu, Auguste Le Van, Lee, Jae Hyeon, Lesser, Michael, Levasseur, Laurence Perreault, Li, Ting S., Mann, Justin L., Marshall, Bob, Martinez-Vazquez, C. E., Martini, Paul, Bourboux, Helion du Mas des, McManus, Sean, Meier, Tobias Gabriel, Menard, Brice, Metcalfe, Nigel, Munoz-Gutierrez, Andrea, Najita, Joan, Napier, Kevin, Narayan, Gautham, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nie, Jundan, Nord, Brian, Norman, Dara J., Olsen, Knut A. G., Paat, Anthony, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Peng, Xiyan, Poppett, Claire L., Poremba, Megan R., Prakash, Abhishek, Rabinowitz, David, Raichoor, Anand, Rezaie, Mehdi, Robertson, A. N., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rudnick, Gregory, Safonova, Sasha, Saha, Abhijit, Sanchez, F. Javier, Savary, Elodie, Schweiker, Heidi, Scott, Adam, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shan, Huanyuan, Silva, David R., Slepian, Zachary, Soto, Christian, Sprayberry, David, Staten, Ryan, Stillman, Coley M., Stupak, Robert J., Summers, David L., Tie, Suk Sien, Tirado, H., Vargas-Magana, Mariana, Vivas, A. Katherina, Wechsler, Risa H., Williams, Doug, Yang, Jinyi, Yang, Qian, Yapici, Tolga, Zaritsky, Dennis, Zenteno, A., Zhang, Kai, Zhang, Tianmeng, Zhou, Rongpu, Zhou, Zhimin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Universidad Antonio Nariño (UAN), Département d'Astrophysique (ex SAP) (DAP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, National University of Defense Technology [China], Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Departamento de FisicaTeorica e IFT-UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), EPFL Laboratoire d’astrophysique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), Columbia University [New York], Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai [Barcelona] (ICE-CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Biologie des Interactions Neurones / Glie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - 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Cosmologie, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Protein Sciences, Center for Structural Biology, Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systèmes (LTDS), École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État (ENTPE)-Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Saint Etienne (ENISE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - 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School of Physics and Astronomy, Dey, Arjun [0000-0002-4928-4003], Schlegel, David J. [0000-0002-5042-5088], Lang, Dustin [0000-0002-1172-0754], Blum, Robert [0000-0002-8622-4237], Fan, Xiaohui [0000-0003-3310-0131], Finkbeiner, Douglas [0000-0003-2808-275X], Herrera, David [0000-0003-2092-6727], Juneau, Stephanie [0000-0002-0000-2394], Landriau, Martin [0000-0003-1838-8528], Levi, Michael [0000-0003-1887-1018], McGreer, Ian [0000-0002-3461-5228], Meisner, Aaron [0000-0002-1125-7384], Moustakas, John [0000-0002-2733-4559], Nugent, Peter [0000-0002-3389-0586], Schlafly, Edward F. [0000-0002-3569-7421], Walker, Alistair [0000-0002-7123-8943], Valdés, Francisco [0000-0001-5567-1301], Zou, Hu [0000-0002-6684-3997], Abolfathi, Bela [0000-0003-1820-8486], Allen, Lori [0000-0002-7789-5119], Annis, James [0000-0002-0609-3987], Ansarinejad, Behzad [0000-0002-6443-3396], Bell, Eric F. 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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], media_common.quotation_subject, halo, FOS: Physical sciences, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, milky-way tomography, Footprint, Software, surveys, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, QB Astronomy, redshift distributions, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, dark energy survey, STFC, QB, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Remote sensing, media_common, business.industry, RCUK, Astronomy and Astrophysics, cosmos, 3rd-DAS, Probabilistic inference, Galactic plane, streams, Photometry (astronomy), Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Satellite, digital sky survey, galaxy, Catalogs, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, sdss, sextractor, catalogs, Geology, astro-ph.IM
Abstract

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (http://legacysurvey.org/) are a combination of three public projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey, and the Mayall z-band Legacy Survey) that will jointly image ≈14,000 deg2 of the extragalactic sky visible from the northern hemisphere in three optical bands (g, r, and z) using telescopes at the Kitt Peak National Observatory and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The combined survey footprint is split into two contiguous areas by the Galactic plane. The optical imaging is conducted using a unique strategy of dynamically adjusting the exposure times and pointing selection during observing that results in a survey of nearly uniform depth. In addition to calibrated images, the project is delivering a catalog, constructed by using a probabilistic inference-based approach to estimate source shapes and brightnesses. The catalog includes photometry from the grz optical bands and from four mid-infrared bands (at 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 μm) observed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite during its full operational lifetime. The project plans two public data releases each year. All the software used to generate the catalogs is also released with the data. This paper provides an overview of the Legacy Surveys project., The BASS is also supported by the External Cooperation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant # 114A11KYSB20160057), and Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (Grant # 11433005). The Legacy Surveys imaging of the DESI footprint is supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02- 05CH11231, by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility under the same contract; and by the U.S. National Science Foundation, Division of Astronomical Sciences under Contract No. AST-0950945 to NOAO. Travel and other support for the DECaLS and MzLS projects is provided by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the DESI Project. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. 320964 (WDTracer). J. Moustakas gratefully acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation grant AST1616414. A. Dey thanks the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for their generous support during the year these surveys were initiated. A. Dey, D. J. Schlegel, and D. Lang thank the Aspen Center for Physics, which is supported by National Science Foundation grant PHY-1066293, for their hospitality and support during summer 2015 during which part of this work was conducted.

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2019
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3. On a new method to estimate distance, reddening and metallicity of RR Lyrae stars using optical/near-infrared ($B$,$V$,$I$,$J$,$H$,$K$) mean magnitudes: $��$ Centauri as a first test case

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Bono, G., Iannicola, G., Braga, V. F., Ferraro, I., Stetson, P. B., Magurno, D., Matsunaga, N., Beaton, R. L., Buonanno, R., Chaboyer, B., Dall'Ora, M., Fabrizio, M., Fiorentino, G., Freedman, W. L., Gilligan, C. K., Madore, B. F., Marconi, M., Marengo, M., Marinoni, S., Marrese, P., Martinez-Vazquez, C. E., Mateo, M., Monelli, M., Neeley, J. R., Nonino, M., Sneden, C., Thevenin, F., Valenti, E., and Walker, A. R.

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Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
Abstract

We developed a new approach to provide accurate estimates of metal content, reddening and true distance modulus of RR Lyrae stars (RRLs). The method is based on homogeneous optical ($BVI$) and near-infrared ($JHK$) mean magnitudes and on predicted period--luminosity--metallicity relations ($IJHK$) and absolute mean magnitude--metallicity relations ($BV$). We obtained solutions for three different RRL samples in $��$ Cen: first overtone (RRc,~90), fundamental (RRab,~80) and global (RRc+RRab) in which the period of first overtones were fundamentalized. The metallicity distribution shows a well defined peak at [Fe/H]$\sim$--1.98 and a standard deviation of $��$=0.54 dex. The spread is, as expected, metal-poor ([Fe/H]$\le$--2.3) objects. The current metallicity distribution is $\sim$0.3 dex more metal-poor than similar estimates for RRLs available in the literature. The difference vanishes if the true distance modulus we estimated is offset by --0.06/--0.07~mag in true distance modulus. We also found a cluster true distance modulus of $��$=13.720$\pm$0.002$\pm$0.030~mag, where the former error is the error on the mean and the latter is the standard deviation. Moreover, we found a cluster reddening of E($B-V$)=0.132$\pm$0.002$\pm$0.028~mag and spatial variations of the order of a few arcmin across the body of the cluster. Both the true distance modulus and the reddening are slightly larger than similar estimates available in the literature, but the difference is within 1$��$. The metallicity dependence of distance diagnostics agree with theory and observations, but firm constraints require accurate and homogeneous spectroscopic measurements.

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2018
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5. Constraints on the Physical Properties of GW190814 through Simulations Based on DECam Follow-up Observations by the Dark Energy Survey

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G. Tarle, Alyssa Garcia, V. Scarpine, Samuel Hinton, Marcelle Soares-Santos, David J. Brooks, Z. Doctor, C. Lidman, Douglas L. Tucker, G. Gutierrez, N. Meza, B. Flaugher, Kyler Kuehn, A. Carnero Rosell, Alex Drlica-Wagner, D. L. Burke, Eric H. Neilsen, J. Carretero, U. Malik, Huanqing Chen, A. K. Vivas, C. Nicolaou, Tamara M. Davis, Jhon Yana Galarza, Enrique Gaztanaga, Michael Schubnell, M. Sako, David J. James, K. Honscheid, J. Gschwend, Antonella Palmese, D. L. Hollowood, S. Allam, Robert A. Gruendl, S. Serrano, Alfredo Zenteno, F. Paz-Chinchón, Richard Kessler, Sunayana Bhargava, Ryan J. Foley, Daniel Scolnic, Ken Herner, Marcos Lima, Andre Luiz Figueiredo, S. Desai, M. Smith, S. Avila, Jennifer L. Marshall, Peter Doel, T. F. Eifler, Edward R. Cook, Daniel Gruen, Daniel E. Holz, E. Suchyta, M. A. G. Maia, James Annis, Clecio R. Bom, H. T. Diehl, T. M. C. Abbott, Michel Aguena, R. E. Butler, M. Costanzi, Melissa Butner, J. P. Marriner, Josh Frieman, M. S. S. Gill, Mackenna L. Wood, M. Carrasco Kind, S. Everett, D. J. Brout, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, R. Cartier, E. J. Sanchez, D. W. Gerdes, C. J. Conselice, Huan Lin, Ben Farr, Ramon Miquel, N. Kuropatkin, C. E. Martínez-Vázquez, W. G. Hartley, L. N. da Costa, Brian Yanny, D. A. Finley, Nora Sherman, Sean D. Points, A. A. Plazas, J. De Vicente, Flavia Sobreira, M. March, M. Wiesner, Tristan Bachmann, R. L. C. Ogando, Juan Garcia-Bellido, E. Bertin, Andrew W. Mann, Ofer Lahav, Robert Morgan, A. Roodman, O. Rodriguez, Keith Bechtol, J. Quirola-Vásquez, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), DES, National Science Foundation (US), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Energy (US), Higher Education Funding Council for England, Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (España), University of Illinois, University of Chicago, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Brasil), German Research Foundation, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), European Commission, University of California, University of Cambridge, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (España), University of Edinburgh, University of Michigan, National Optical Astronomy Observatory (US), University of Nottingham, The Ohio State University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Sussex, Texas A&M University, Morgan, R., Soares-Santos, M., Annis, J., Herner, K., Garcia, A., Palmese, A., Drlica-Wagner, A., Kessler, R., Garcia-Bellido, J., Bachmann, T. G., Sherman, N., Allam, S., Bechtol, K., Bom, C. R., Brout, D., Butler, R. E., Butner, M., Cartier, R., Chen, H., Conselice, C., Cook, E., Davis, T. M., Doctor, Z., Farr, B., Figueiredo, A. L., Finley, D. A., Foley, R. J., Galarza, J. Y., Gill, M. S. S., Gruendl, R. A., Holz, D. E., Kuropatkin, N., Lidman, C., Lin, H., Malik, U., Mann, A. W., Marriner, J., Marshall, J. L., Martinez-Vazquez, C. E., Meza, N., Neilsen, E., Nicolaou, C., Olivares, F. E., Paz-Chinchon, F., Points, S., Quirola-Vasquez, J., Rodriguez, O., Sako, M., Scolnic, D., Smith, M., Sobreira, F., Tucker, D. L., Vivas, A. K., Wiesner, M., Wood, M. L., Yanny, B., Zenteno, A., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Avila, S., Bertin, E., Bhargava, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. C., Kind, M. C., Carretero, J., Costa, L. N. D., Costanzi, M., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Eifler, T. F., Everett, S., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Gruen, D., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W. G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., March, M., Miquel, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Plazas, A. A., Roodman, A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Suchyta, E., and Tarle, G.

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Gravitational wave sources, Optical observation, Light curve classification, Astronomical simulations, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Kilonova, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Binary star, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Gravitational wave, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Light curve, Redshift, Galaxy, LIGO, Neutron star, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Gravitational wave source, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

Full author list: R. Morgan, M. Soares-Santos, J. Annis, K. Herner, A. Garcia, A. Palmese, A. Drlica-Wagner, R. Kessler, J. García-Bellido, T. G. Bachmann, N. Sherman, S. Allam, K. Bechtol, C. R. Bom, D. Brout, R. E. Butler, M. Butner, R. Cartier, H. Chen, C. Conselice, E. Cook, T. M. Davis, Z. Doctor, B. Farr, A. L. Figueiredo, D. A. Finley, R. J. Foley, J. Y. Galarza, M. S. S. Gill, R. A. Gruendl, D. E. Holz, N. Kuropatkin, C. Lidman, H. Lin, U. Malik, A. W. Mann, J. Marriner, J. L. Marshall, C. E. Martínez-Vázquez N. Meza, E. Neilsen, C. Nicolaou, F. Olivares E., F. Paz-Chinchón, S. Points, J. Quirola-Vásquez, O. Rodriguez, M. Sako, D. Scolnic, M. Smith, F. Sobreira, D. L. Tucker, A. K. Vivas, M. Wiesner, M. L. Wood, B. Yanny, A. Zenteno, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena, S. Avila, E. Bertin, S. Bhargava, D. Brooks, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, L. N. da Costa, M. Costanzi, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, T. F. Eifler, S. Everett, B. Flaugher, J. Frieman, E. Gaztanaga, D. W. Gerdes, D. Gruen, J. Gschwend, G. Gutierrez, W. G. Hartley, S. R. Hinton, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, D. J. James, K. Kuehn, O. Lahav, M. Lima, M. A. G. Maia, M. March, R. Miquel, R. L. C. Ogando, A. A. Plazas, A. Roodman, E. Sanchez, V. Scarpine, M. Schubnell, S. Serrano, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, E. Suchyta, and G. Tarle, On 2019 August 14, the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations detected gravitational waves from a black hole and a 2.6 solar mass compact object, possibly the first neutron star-black hole merger. In search of an optical counterpart, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) obtained deep imaging of the entire 90% confidence level localization area with Blanco/DECam 0, 1, 2, 3, 6, and 16 nights after the merger. Objects with varying brightness were detected by the DES Pipeline, and we systematically reduced the candidate counterparts through catalog matching, light-curve properties, host-galaxy photometric redshifts, Southern Astrophysical Research spectroscopic follow-up observations, and machine-learning-based photometric classification. All candidates were rejected as counterparts to the merger. To quantify the sensitivity of our search, we applied our selection criteria to full light-curve simulations of supernovae and kilonovae as they would appear in the DECam observations. Because the source class of the merger was uncertain, we utilized an agnostic, three-component kilonova model based on tidally disrupted neutron star (NS) ejecta properties to quantify our detection efficiency of a counterpart if the merger included an NS. We find that, if a kilonova occurred during this merger, configurations where the ejected matter is greater than 0.07 solar masses, has lanthanide abundance less than 10-8.56, and has a velocity between 0.18c and 0.21c are disfavored at the 2σ level. Furthermore, we estimate that our background reduction methods are capable of associating gravitational wave signals with a detected electromagnetic counterpart at the 4σ level in 95% of future follow-up observations., R. Morgan thanks the LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program, which is funded by LSSTC, NSF Cybertraining Grant #1829740, the Brinson Foundation, and the Moore Foundation; his participation in the program has benefited this work. F. O.E. acknowledges support from the FONDECYT grant No. 1201223. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under grant No. 1744555. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics at The Ohio State University, the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico and the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey. The Collaborating Institutions are Argonne National Laboratory, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Cambridge, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas-Madrid, the University of Chicago, University College London, the DES-Brazil Consortium, the University of Edinburgh, the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, the Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (IEEC/CSIC), the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München and the associated Excellence Cluster Universe, the University of Michigan, NFS’s NOIRLab, the University of Nottingham, The Ohio State University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Portsmouth, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, the University of Sussex, Texas A&M University, and the OzDES Membership Consortium. The UCSC team is supported in part by NASA grant NNG17PX03C, NSF grant AST-1815935, the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and by fellowships from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to R.J.F. Based in part on observations at Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory at NSFʼs NOIRLab (NOIRLab Prop. ID 2012B-0001; PI: J. Frieman), which is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. Based on observations obtained at the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope, which is a joint project of the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovação e Comunicações (MCTIC) da República Federativa do Brasil, the U.S. NSF’s NOIRLab, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), and Michigan State University (MSU). The DES data management system is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant Nos. AST-1138766 and AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MICINN under grants ESP2017-89838, PGC2018-094773, PGC2018-102021, SEV2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, and MDM-2015-0509, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union. IFAE is partially funded by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007- 2013), including ERC grant agreements 240672, 291329, and 306478. We acknowledge support from the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT) e-Universe (CNPq grant 465376/2014-2). This paper has gone through internal review by the DES collaboration. This manuscript has been authored by the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02- 07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics.

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2020
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