A Dark Energy Camera Search for an Optical Counterpart to the First Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW150914

Soares-Santos, M. and Kessler, R. and Berger, E. and Annis, J. and Brout, D. and Buckley-Geer, E. and Chen, H. and Cowperthwaite, P.~S. and Diehl, H.~T. and Doctor, Z. and Drlica-Wagner, A. and Farr, B. and Finley, D.~A. and Flaugher, B. and Foley, R.~J. and Frieman, J. and Gruendl, R.~A. and Herner, K. and Holz, D. and Lin, H. and Marriner, J. and Neilsen, E. and Rest, A. and Sako, M. and Scolnic, D. and Sobreira, F. and Walker, A.~R. and Wester, W. and Yanny, B. and Abbott, T.~M.~C. and Abdalla, F.~B. and Allam, S. and Armstrong, R. and Banerji, M. and Benoit-L_s14evy, A. and Bernstein, R.~A. and Bertin, E. and Brown, D.~A. and Burke, D.~L. and Capozzi, D. and Carnero Rosell, A. and Carrasco Kind, M. and Carretero, J. and Castander, F.~J. and Cenko, S.~B. and Chornock, R. and Crocce, M. and D_s14Andrea, C.~B. and da Costa, L.~N. and Desai, S. and Dietrich, J.~P. and Drout, M.~R. and Eifler, T.~F. and Estrada, J. and Evrard, A.~E. and Fairhurst, S. and Fernandez, E. and Fischer, J. and Fong, W. and Fosalba, P. and Fox, D.~B. and Fryer, C.~L. and Garcia-Bellido, J. and Gaztanaga, E. and Gerdes, D.~W. and Goldstein, D.~A. and Gruen, D. and Gutierrez, G. and Honscheid, K. and James, D.~J. and Karliner, I. and Kasen, D. and Kent, S. and Kuropatkin, N. and Kuehn, K. and Lahav, O. and Li, T.~S. and Lima, M. and Maia, M.~A.~G. and Margutti, R. and Martini, P. and Matheson, T. and McMahon, R.~G. and Metzger, B.~D. and Miller, C.~J. and Miquel, R. and Mohr, J.~J. and Nichol, R.~C. and Nord, B. and Ogando, R. and Peoples, J. and Plazas, A.~A. and Quataert, E. and Romer, A.~K. and Roodman, A. and Rykoff, E.~S. and Sanchez, E. and Scarpine, V. and Schindler, R. and Schubnell, M. and Sevilla-Noarbe, I. and Sheldon, E. and Smith, M. and Smith, N. and Smith, R.~C. and Stebbins, A. and Sutton, P.~J. and Swanson, M.~E.~C. and Tarle, G. and Thaler, J. and Thomas, R.~C. and Tucker, D.~L. and Vikram, V. and Wechsler, R.~H. and Weller, J. and DES Collaboration