Alex Drlica-Wagner

Employment

• University of Chicago Professor
  2018 - Present
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Senior Scientist
  2013 - Present

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Publications (155)

• Rubin Observatory Reveals a Dust-shrouded Halo Globular Cluster in Ophiuchus
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2026 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aeb122
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• A DECADE of Giants: A catalog of 42,000 optically identified galaxy clusters from 13,000 $\mathrm{deg}^2$ of the sky
  arXiv e-prints 2026
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• A Deep Look at the Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellite Virgo III with Rubin Observatory Data Preview 2
  The Open Journal of Astrophysics 2026 DOI: 10.33232/001c.172595
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• Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: improved mitigation of spatially varying observational systematics with masking for the MagLim++ lens sample
  The Open Journal of Astrophysics 2026 DOI: 10.33232/001c.172767
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• Forecasting the Resolvability of Stellar Velocity Dispersions in Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies
  arXiv e-prints 2026
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• S5: Tidal Disruption in Crater 2 and Formation of Diffuse Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Group
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aea28e
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• Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Milky Way Satellites Boötes V and Leo Minor I and the LMC Satellite DELVE 2: Three Small Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2610.07182
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• The "Rubin 2036: Opportunities for Discovery" Workshop: A Community Roadmap for the Future of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory After the LSST
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2610.28482
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• Dark Energy Survey Year 6 results: Weak lensing and galaxy clustering cosmological analysis framework
  Physical Review D 2026 DOI: 10.1103/8n76-f6ln
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• Discovery, Characterization, and Potential Origins of a Stream in the Stellar Halo of Nearby LMC-Mass Galaxy NGC 55
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2609.22071
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• Impact of LSST systematics on stellar-stream density fluctuations for dark matter
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2609.10897
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• Rubin Observatory Reveals a Dust-Shrouded Halo Globular Cluster in Ophiuchus
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2609.15872
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• Dark Energy Camera All Data Everywhere cosmic shear project. V. Constraints on cosmology and astrophysics from 270 million galaxies across <inline-formula><mml:math><mml:mn>13,000</mml:mn><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mi>deg<…
  Physical Review D 2026 DOI: 10.1103/k4lq-2s73
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• The DECam MAGIC Survey: Uncovering the Tidal Tails of the Crater II Dwarf Galaxy
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae7f1f
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• Dark Energy Survey Year 6 results: Redshift calibration of the MagLim++ lens sample
  Physical Review D 2026 DOI: 10.1103/mkwr-bfls
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• Enhancing weak lensing redshift distribution characterization by optimizing the Dark Energy Survey Self-Organizing Map Photo-z method
  The Open Journal of Astrophysics 2026 DOI: 10.33232/001c.165871
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• First detection of weak lensing around spectroscopically confirmed low-mass galaxies
  Physical Review D 2026 DOI: 10.1103/sqkx-dhd4
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• Dark Energy Survey Year 6 results: Clustering redshifts and importance sampling of self-organized-maps <inline-formula><mml:math><mml:mi>n</mml:mi><mml:mo>(</mml:mo><mml:mi>z</mml:mi><mml:mo>)</mml:mo></mml:math></inline-formula> realizations for <inline…
  Physical Review D 2026 DOI: 10.1103/6lfl-h6dg
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• Dark Energy Survey: DESI-independent angular BAO measurement
  Physical Review D 2026 DOI: 10.1103/d474-zzzf
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• Enrichment by the first stars in a relic dwarf galaxy
  Nature Astronomy 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41550-026-02802-z
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