CMB lensing tomography with the DES Science Verification galaxies

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Funding Acknowledgements

TG thanks Anthony Challinor and George Efstathiou for comments on a draft version of this paper, and James Fergusson, Martin Kilbinger and Ariel Sanchez for useful discussions. TG acknowledges support from the Kavli Foundation, STFC grant ST/L000636/1, and from the Excellence Cluster 'Universe' of Garching, Germany, as well as the Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai, IEEC-CSIC, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, for hospitality. PF acknowledges support from the MareNostrum supercomputer (BSC-CNS, http://www.bsc.es), grants AECT-2008-1-0009 to 2010-1-0007, Port d'Informacio Cientifica (http://www.pic.es), and the Cosmo-HUB portal (cosmohub.pic.es), where the MICE simulations were run, stored, and distributed, respectively. PF is funded by MINECO, project ESP2013-48274-C3-1-P. FE, BL and HVP were partially supported by the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (PP7/2007-2013) /ERC grant agreement no. 306478-CosmicDawn. CR acknowledges support from the University of Melbourne and from the Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects scheme (DP150103208).r Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the US Department of Energy, the US 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 Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University, the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico and the Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia e Inovacao, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Collaborating Institutions in the DES. The DES data management system is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number AST-1138766.r The Collaborating Institutions are Argonne National Laboratory, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Cambridge, Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas-Madrid, the University of Chicago, University College London, the DES-Brazil Consortium, the University of Edinburgh, the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai (IEEC/CSIC), the Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen and the associated Excellence Cluster Universe, the University of Michigan, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, 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, and Texas A&M University.r The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MINECO under grants AYA2012-39559, ESP2013-48274, FPA2013-47986, and Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa SEV-2012-0234. Research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) including ERC grant agreements 240672, 291329, and 306478.r The SPT programme is supported by the National Science Foundation through grant PLR-1248097. Partial support is also provided by the NSF Physics Frontier Center grant PHY-0114422 to theKavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Kavli Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Grant GBMF#947 to the University of Chicago.