Paper: 2015ApJ...807...50B (acknowledgments)
We thank Sergey Koposov and collaborators for sending a copy of their submitted paper with their nine discoveries, and Helmut Jerjen for pointing out the association between Kim 2 and DES J2108.8−5109. Marla Geha provided useful comments on the presentation of these results. K.B. and A.D.W. thank Beth Willman for advice regarding the search for ultra-faint galaxies. A.D.W. thanks Ellen Bechtol for her generous hospitality during the preparation of this manuscript. We acknowledge helpful suggestions from the anonymous referee. This work made use of computational resources at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and University of Chicago Research Computing Center. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number (1138766). A.C.R. acknowledges financial support provided by the PAPDRJ CAPES/FAPERJ Fellowship. A.A.P. was supported by DOE grant DE-AC02-98CH10886 and by JPL, run by Caltech under a contract for NASA. 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 Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University, the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas AM 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 DES data management system is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number AST-1138766. 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, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union. The Collaborating Institutions are Argonne National Laboratory, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Cambridge, Centro de Investigaciones Enérgeticas, 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 Urbana-Champaign, 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, 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 AM University.