The Dark Energy Survey project: Exploring the Universe

• Grant number: 15/12338-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: November 01, 2015
• End date: May 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy
• Principal Investigator: Rogério Rosenfeld
• Grantee: Flavia Sobreira
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 11/11973-4 - ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research: a regional center for theoretical physics, AP.TEM

Abstract

In this work we will develop and use a catalogue obtained from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) to study the galaxy distribution around dark matter halos. We will use measurements of the angular correlation function and the angular power spectrum of the galaxy distribution to fit a phenomenological model for the halo occupation distribution of galaxies. We also will study the galaxy correlation function in warm dark matter models to put limits on the mass of the dark matter particles.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ANNIS, J.; SOARES-SANTOS, M.; BERGER, E.; BROUT, D.; CHEN, H.; CHORNOCK, R.; COWPERTHWAITE, P. S.; DIEHL, H. T.; DOCTOR, Z.; DRLICA-WAGNER, A.; et al. A DARK ENERGY CAMERA SEARCH FOR MISSING SUPERGIANTS IN THE LMC AFTER THE ADVANCED LIGO GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE EVENT GW150914. Astrophysical Journal Letters, v. 823, n. 2, JUN 1 2016. (15/12338-1)