| 1. | Thomas Diehl, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Results of a Search for Strong Gravitational Lenses in SVA1 and Y1A1 using ''Blue Near Anything'' September 3, 2015 (11:20 AM - 11:35 AM) |
| 2. | Zoheyr Doctor, UC Search for Kilonovae in DES Supernovae Fields September 3, 2015 (10:20 AM - 10:35 AM) |
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| 6. | Michael Gladders, UChicago Thoughts on Strong Lensing from Sloan September 3, 2015 (11:35 AM - 11:50 AM) |
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| 8. | Stephen M Kent, Fermilab Reddening Law in the DES Survey Footprint September 3, 2015 (9:35 AM - 9:50 AM) Two different photometric calibrations of the Y1 and Y2 data are used to study the variation in the reddening law in the DES footprint. |
| 9. | Nan Li, KICP & Argonne Simulations of Cluster Scale Strong lensing September 3, 2015 (11:50 AM - 12:05 PM) Gravitational lensing is one of the most powerful tools for investigating the dark side of the universe. Strong gravitational lensing in particular provides a unique probe of the cores of massive dark matter halos. However, understanding this phenomena based upon observational data alone is complicated; high-fidelity simulations are required for robust cosmological interpretations. To fulfill this need, we have developed a simulation pipeline with which we can create highly-realistic strong lensing images starting from N-body simulations. This pipeline includes a low- noise and unbiased density estimator to accurately capture the lensing halo's mass distribution, routines that lens realistic source images (drawn from the Hubble Ultra Deep field) and that add galaxies along the line-of-sight, lens member galaxies, foreground stars and realistic observational noise and photon smearing. Simulations from our pipeline are currently being used to interpret observations of cluster-scale strong lenses and future work is planned in preparation for LSST to improve strong-lensing identification algorithms. Aspects of this pipeline will also be applied to a number of other scientific analyses including weak lensing in galaxy clusters, cluster lensing of the comic microwave background, and galaxy-galaxy lensing. |
| 10. | Carrasco Kind Matias, NCSA Hack Session: DES data access + Data Quality (with K. Bechtol & A. Drlica-Wagner) September 3, 2015 (1:35 PM - 3:30 PM) |
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| 12. | Eric Morganson, NCSA Examining Outer Milky Way Structures with PS1 and DES September 3, 2015 (9:50 AM - 10:05 AM) |
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| 14. | Amanda Pagul, University of Chicago Counts in Cells: Constraining Galaxy Statistics September 3, 2015 (10:05 AM - 10:20 AM) |
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