Publications (135)
Mock data sets for the Eboss and DESI Lyman- forest surveys
Thomas Etourneau, Jean-Marc Le Goff, James Rich +32
We present a publicly-available code to generate sets of mock Lyman- (\lya) forest data that have realistic large-scale correlations including those due to the Baryonic Acousti…
The Multi-Phase Circumgalactic Medium of DESI Emission-Line Galaxies at z~1.5
Ting-Wen Lan, J. Xavier Prochaska, J. Aguilar +39
We study the multi-phase circumgalactic medium (CGM) of emission line galaxies (ELGs) at , traced by MgII, and CIV, …
DAHe white dwarfs from the DESI survey
Christopher J. Manser, Boris T. Gänsicke, Keith Inight +16
A new class of white dwarfs, dubbed DAHe, that present Zeeman-split Balmer lines in emission has recently emerged. However, the physical origin of these emission lines remains uncl…
DESI DR2 Results IV: Alcock-Paczyński Measurements from the Lyman Alpha Forest and Cosmological Constraints
DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +164
The DESI DR2 analysis measures the Alcock‑Paczynski effect using the full shape of Lyman‑α forest auto‑ and cross‑correlations, achieving 1% precision at redshift 2.33 and providin…
Exploring HOD-dependent systematics for the DESI 2024 Full-Shape galaxy clustering analysis
N. Findlay, S. Nadathur, W. J. Percival +39
We analyse the robustness of the DESI 2024 cosmological inference from the full shape of the galaxy power spectrum to uncertainties in the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) model…
The Cosmic Evolution of CIV Absorbers at : Insights from Systems in DESI Quasars
Abhijeet Anand, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +39
We present the largest catalog to date of triply ionized carbon (CIV) absorbers detected in quasar spectra from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. Using an automated matched…
Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity with DESI 2024 LRG and QSO samples
E. Chaussidon, C. Yèche, A. de Mattia +49
We analyse the large-scale clustering of the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) and Quasar (QSO) sample from the first data release (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).…
The Compilation and Validation of the Spectroscopic Redshift Catalogs for the DESI-COSMOS and DESI-XMMLSS Fields
J. Ratajczak, K. S. Dawson, N. Weaverdyck +74
Over several dedicated programs that include targets beyond the main cosmological samples, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collected spectra for 304,970 unique obje…
Probing cosmic velocities with the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich signal in DESI Bright Galaxy Sample DR1 and ACT DR6
B. Hadzhiyska, Y. Gong, Y. Hsu +55
We present a measurement of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Bright Galaxy Sample (BGS) Data Release 1 (…
Tripling the Census of Dwarf AGN Candidates Using DESI Early Data
Ragadeepika Pucha, S. Juneau, Arjun Dey +46
Using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, we search for AGN signatures in 410,757 line-emitting galaxies. By employing the BPT emission-line rat…
A joint analysis of 3D clustering and galaxy x CMB-lensing cross-correlations with DESI DR1 galaxies
M. Maus, M. White, N. Sailer +58
The spectroscopic data from DESI Data Release 1 (DR1) galaxies enables the analysis of 3D clustering by fitting galaxy power spectra and reconstructed correlation functions in reds…
Extensive analysis of reconstruction algorithms for DESI 2024 baryon acoustic oscillations
X. Chen, Z. Ding, E. Paillas +64
Reconstruction of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal has been a standard procedure in BAO analyses over the past decade and has helped to improve the BAO parameter precis…
A framework to measure the properties of intergalactic metal systems with two-point flux statistics
Naim Göksel Karaçaylı, Paul Martini, David H. Weinberg +16
The abundance, temperature, and clustering of metals in the intergalactic medium are important parameters for understanding their cosmic evolution and quantifying their impact on c…
Inference of matter power spectrum at z=0 using DESI DR1 Full-Shape data
R. Cereskaite, E. Mueller, C. Howlett +48
Measurements of galaxy distributions at large cosmic distances capture clustering from the past. In this study, we use a cosmological model to translate these observations into the…
A New Record Census of Dwarf AGN and a Bimodal - Scaling Relation with DESI DR1
Ragadeepika Pucha, S. Juneau, M. Mezcua +48
Using the first spectroscopic data release from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI DR1), we search for AGN signatures in 1,678,787 low-redshift ()…
DESI 2024 VI: Cosmological Constraints from the Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +200
We present cosmological results from the measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in galaxy, quasar and Lyman- forest tracers from the first year of observations from…
Extended Dark Energy analysis using DESI DR2 BAO measurements
K. Lodha, R. Calderon, W. L. Matthewson +122
We conduct an extended analysis of dark energy constraints, in support of the findings of the DESI DR2 cosmology key paper, including DESI data, Planck CMB observations, and three…
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the C IV Forest with DESI DR2
Abby Bault, Andrei Cuceu, Julien Guy +53
We present a measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in the cross-correlation of triply ionized carbon C IV absorption with the positions of quasars (QSO) and Emission Li…
DESI DR1 Ly 1D power spectrum: The optimal estimator measurement
N. G. Karaçaylı, P. Martini, J. Aguilar +61
The one-dimensional power spectrum of Ly forest offers rich insights into cosmological and astrophysical parameters, including constraints on the sum of neutr…
The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: Fundamental Plane Catalogue
C. E. Ross, C. Howlett, J. R. Lucey +58
Measurements of peculiar velocities in the local Universe are a powerful tool to study the nature of dark energy at low () redshifts. Here we present the largest single se…
Alcock-Paczynski Blinding Scheme for the Ly- Forest Analysis
G. Perez-Sanchez, S. F. Beltran, G. Niz +45
We present and validate a blinding method for the Lyman- (Ly) forest analysis based on a modification of the Alcock-Paczynski test. In order to hide the background expansio…
Astrometric Calibration and Performance of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Focal Plane
S. Kent, E. Neilsen, K. Honscheid +46
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, consisting of 5020 robotic fiber positioners and associated systems on the Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona, is carrying out a surve…
Validation of the Scientific Program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +261
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was designed to conduct a survey covering 14,000 deg over five years to constrain the cosmic expansion history through precise m…
Modified Gravity Constraints from the Full Shape Modeling of Clustering Measurements from DESI 2024
M. Ishak, J. Pan, R. Calderon +68
We present cosmological constraints on deviations from general relativity (GR) from the first-year of clustering observations from Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in co…
DESI DR2 Galaxy Luminosity Functions
Samuel G. Moore, Shaun Cole, Michael Wilson +54
We present galaxy luminosity functions (LFs) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) DR2 Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) in the g,r,z, and w1 bands over 0.002<z<0.6. Our ana…
WEAVE-QSO: A Massive Intergalactic Medium Survey for the William Herschel Telescope
M. M. Pieri, S. Bonoli, J. Chaves-Montero +12
In these proceedings we describe the WEAVE-QSO survey, which will observe around 400,000 high redshift quasars starting in 2018. This survey is part of a broader WEAVE survey to be…
Validation of the DESI DR2 Ly forest full-shape analysis
M. Herbold, A. Cuceu, P. Martini +107
The paper validates the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 analysis of the Lyman‑α forest, focusing on extracting the Alcock‑Paczynski (AP) measurement from…
Constraints on Neutrino Physics from DESI DR2 BAO and DR1 Full Shape
W. Elbers, A. Aviles, H. E. Noriega +116
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Collaboration has obtained robust measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the redshift range, , based o…
Quality Assessment of Spectroscopic Data Reduction Pipelines Using Artificial Intelligence: Scrutinizing Data Release 2 from the DESI Survey
V. Torres-Gomez, J. Suarez-Perez, J. E. Forero-Romero +45
Large spectroscopic surveys now collect data at a scale that makes traditional visual inspection impractical. We present an unsupervised pipeline for spectroscopic quality assessme…
Cosmological analysis of the DESI DR1 Lyman alpha 1D power spectrum
J. Chaves-Montero, A. Font-Ribera, P. McDonald +63
We present the cosmological analysis of the one-dimensional Lyman- flux power spectrum from the first data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We captur…
Target Selection and Validation of DESI Luminous Red Galaxies
Rongpu Zhou, Biprateep Dey, Jeffrey A. Newman +46
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is carrying out a 5-year survey that aims to measure the redshifts of tens of millions of galaxies and quasars, including 8 million…
CoLoRe-2LPT: Lyman- mock catalogues for the validation of DESI cosmological analyses
M. F. Ruiz-Herrera Bernal, S. Avila, A. Font-Ribera +90
The paper presents fast Lyman‑α forest mock catalogues generated with second‑order Lagrangian perturbation theory (2LPT) that accurately reproduce small‑scale clustering, BAO broad…
Semi-analytical covariance matrices for two-point correlation function for DESI 2024 data
M. Rashkovetskyi, D. Forero-Sánchez, A. de Mattia +57
We present an optimized way of producing the fast semi-analytical covariance matrices for the Legendre moments of the two-point correlation function, taking into account survey geo…
DESI Data Release 1: Stellar Catalogue
Sergey E. Koposov, Ting S. Li, C. Allende Prieto +65
In this paper we present the stellar Value-Added Catalogue (VAC) based on the DESI Data Release 1. This VAC contains stellar parameter, abundance and radial velocity measurements f…
The DESI Single Fiber Lens Search. I. Four Thousand Spectroscopically Selected Galaxy-Galaxy Gravitational Lens Candidates
Juliana S. M. Karp, David J. Schlegel, Xiaosheng Huang +47
We present 4,110 strong gravitational lens candidates, 3,887 of which are new discoveries, selected from a sample of 5,837,154 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) observed with the Dark E…
Using Active Learning to Improve Quasar Identification for the DESI Spectra Processing Pipeline
Dylan Green, David Kirkby, J. Aguilar +51
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey uses an automatic spectral classification pipeline to classify spectra. QuasarNET is a convolutional neural network used as p…
Optimal 1D Ly Forest Power Spectrum Estimation -- III. DESI early data
Naim Göksel Karaçaylı, Paul Martini, Julien Guy +59
The one-dimensional power spectrum of the Ly forest provides important information about cosmological and astrophysical parameters, including constraints on w…
DESI 2024 VII: Cosmological Constraints from the Full-Shape Modeling of Clustering Measurements
DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +210
We present cosmological results from the measurement of clustering of galaxy, quasar and Lyman- forest tracers from the first year of observations with the Dark Energy Spectros…
The Spectroscopic Data Processing Pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
J. Guy, S. Bailey, A. Kremin +55
We describe the spectroscopic data processing pipeline of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which is conducting a redshift survey of about 40 million galaxies and qu…
DESI Observations of the Andromeda Galaxy: Revealing the Immigration History of our Nearest Neighbor
Arjun Dey, Joan R. Najita, S. E. Koposov +45
We present DESI observations of the inner halo of M31, which reveal the kinematics of a recent merger - a galactic immigration event - in exquisite detail. Of the 11,416 sources st…
DESI DR2 Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman Alpha Forest Multipoles
N. G. Karaçaylı, A. Cuceu, J. Aguilar +55
We present an alternative measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) using the Legendre multipole representation of the Ly forest correlation functions from the secon…
Model-Independent Measurement of the Matter-Radiation Equality Scale in DESI 2024
B. Bahr-Kalus, D. Parkinson, K. Lodha +52
The peak of the matter power spectrum, known as the turnover (TO) scale, is determined by the horizon size at the time of matter-radiation equality. This scale can serve as a stand…
Tomography of the gamma-ray sky from cross-correlation with DESI DR2 and unWISE galaxies
Alex Krolewski, Neal Dalal, Will J. Percival +39
We study the origin of extragalactic gamma-ray emission observed by Fermi-LAT, using the cross-correlation of the gamma-ray sky with maps of large-scale structure provided by the D…
Cosmological neutrino mass: a frequentist overview in light of DESI
D. Chebat, C. Yèche, E. Armengaud +51
We derive constraints on the neutrino mass using a variety of recent cosmological datasets, including DESI BAO, the full-shape analysis of the DESI matter power spectrum and the on…
Characterization of contaminants in the Lyman-alpha forest auto-correlation with DESI
J. Guy, S. Gontcho A Gontcho, E. Armengaud +61
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations can be measured with sub-percent precision above redshift two with the Lyman-alpha forest auto-correlation and its cross-correlation with quasar positi…
Clustering of DESI galaxies split by thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
M. Rashkovetskyi, D. J. Eisenstein, J. Aguilar +46
The thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect is associated with galaxy clusters - extremely large and dense structures tracing the dark matter with a higher bias than isolated galaxi…
Cosmological constraints from the DESI DR1 Bispectrum Full-Shape and DR2 BAO
D. Forero-Sánchez, S. Novell-Masot, H. Gil-MarÃn +48
We present cosmological constraints from the combination of DESI DR1 full-shape measurements, including for the LRG bispectrum, and DESI DR2 BAO data. The joint analysis accounts f…
DESI DR2 Results II: Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Cosmological Constraints
DESI Collaboration, M. Abdul-Karim, J. Aguilar +184
We present baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from more than 14 million galaxies and quasars drawn from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 (…
Survey Operations for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
E. F. Schlafly, D. Kirkby, D. J. Schlegel +47
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey is a spectroscopic survey of tens of millions of galaxies at covering 14,000 square degrees of the sky. In its…
A striking relationship between dust extinction and radio detection in DESI QSOs: evidence for a dusty blow-out phase in red QSOs
V. A. Fawcett, D. M. Alexander, A. Brodzeller +39
We present the first eight months of data from our secondary target program within the ongoing Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. Our program uses a mid-infrared a…
The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: Mock Catalog
J. Bautista, A. J. Amsellem, V. Aronica +59
We describe the production of the official set of mock catalogs for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Peculiar Velocity Survey (DESI-PV) Data Release 1 (DR1). Our mock catal…
DESI 2024 III: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Galaxies and Quasars
DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +193
We present the DESI 2024 galaxy and quasar baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements using over 5.7 million unique galaxy and quasar redshifts in the range 0.1<z<2.1. Divided…
The Herschel Stripe 82 Survey (HerS): Maps and Early Catalog
M. P. Viero, V. Asboth, I. G. Roseboom +36
We present the first set of maps and band-merged catalog from the Herschel Stripe 82 Survey (HerS). Observations at 250, 350, and 500 micron were taken with the Spectral and Photom…
Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
DESI Collaboration, M. Abdul Karim, A. G. Adame +306
In 2021 May the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration began a 5-year spectroscopic redshift survey to produce a detailed map of the evolving three-dimensional s…
Value Added Catalog of physical properties of more than 1.3 million galaxies from the DESI Survey
M. Siudek, R. Pucha, M. Mezcua +50
Aims. We present an extensive catalog of the physical properties of more than a million galaxies within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), one of the largest spectros…
The VST ATLAS Quasar Survey I: Catalogue
Alice Eltvedt, T. Shanks, N. Metcalfe +22
We present the VST ATLAS Quasar Survey, consisting of quasar (QSO) candidates with over deg. The catalogue is based on VST ATLASNEOWIS…
DESI DR1 Ly 1D power spectrum: Validation of estimators
N. G. Karaçaylı, C. Ravoux, P. Martini +53
The Data Release 1 (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is the largest sample to date for small-scale Ly forest cosmology, accessed through its one-dimensio…
Early time solution as an alternative to the late time evolving dark energy with DESI DR2 BAO
E. Chaussidon, M. White, A. de Mattia +40
Recently the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) provided constraints on the expansion history from their Data Release 2 (DR2). The DESI baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) m…
Local primordial non-Gaussianity using cross-correlations of DESI tracers
A. J. Rosado-MarÃn, A. J. Ross, H. Seo +46
We constrain local primordial non-Gaussianity by a combined analysis of auto and cross-correlations of DESI DR1 tracers, leveraging LRGs and QSOs as well as ELGs between $0.8<z<3.1…
The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: growth rate measurements from the maximum likelihood fields method
Y. Lai, C. Howlett, J. Aguilar +60
We present the constraint on the growth rate of structure from the combination of DESI DR1 BGS sample, Fundamental Plane, and Tully-Fisher peculiar velocity catalogues using the ma…
Construction of the Damped Ly Absorber Catalog for DESI DR2 Ly BAO
A. Brodzeller, M. Wolfson, D. M. Santos +96
We present the Damped Ly Toolkit for automated detection and characterization of Damped Ly absorbers (DLA) in quasar spectra. Our method uses quasar spectral templates with…
Combined tracer analysis for DESI 2024 BAO
D. Valcin, M. Rashkovetskyi, H. Seo +64
This paper demonstrates how the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 (DR1) and future baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) analyses can optimally combine overla…
Target Selection and Sample Characterization for the DESI LOW-Z Secondary Target Program
Elise Darragh-Ford, John F. Wu, Yao-Yuan Mao +39
We introduce the DESI LOW-Z Secondary Target Survey, which combines the wide-area capabilities of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) with an efficient, low-redshift ta…
1000 cataclysmic variables identified from DESI spectroscopy
K. Inight, B. T. Gänsicke, A. Aungwerojwit +41
Most cataclysmic variables (CVs) are discovered when they have an outburst generating an inherent selection bias against CVs that rarely, or never, outburst. CVs discovered by virt…
A measurement of from DESI DR1 using energy densities
Alex Krolewski, Andrea Crespi, Will J. Percival +57
We present a new measurement of the Hubble constant, independent of standard rulers and robust to pre-recombination modifications such as Early Dark Energy (EDE), obtained by calib…
Cosmology from Planck CMB Lensing and DESI DR1 Quasar Tomography
R. de Belsunce, A. Krolewski, S. Chiarenza +60
We present a measurement of the amplitude of matter fluctuations over the redshift range 0.8 <= z <= 3.5 from the cross correlation of over 1.2 million spectroscopic quasars select…
Tracing the Cosmic Evolution of the Cool Circumgalactic Medium of Luminous Red Galaxies with DESI Year 1 Data
Yu-Ling Chang, Ting-Wen Lan, J. Xavier Prochaska +44
We investigate the properties of the cool circumgalactic medium (CGM) of massive galaxies and their cosmic evolution. By using the year 1 dataset of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) an…
DESI DR1 Ly forest: 3D full-shape analysis and cosmological constraints
Andrei Cuceu, Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Calum Gordon +75
We perform an analysis of the full shapes of Lyman- (Ly) forest correlation functions measured from the first data release (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument…
Characterization of DESI fiber assignment incompleteness effect on 2-point clustering and mitigation methods for DR1 analysis
D. Bianchi, M. M. S Hanif, A. Carnero Rosell +52
We present an in-depth analysis of the fiber assignment incompleteness in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 (DR1). This incompleteness is caused by the…
Clustering of high-redshift quasars with DESI DR2
M. Charles, P. Martini, A. J. Ross +46
We present clustering measurements for high-redshift quasars using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Data Release 2. Our sample consists of quasars with $2.0 < z <…
The DESI DR1 peculiar velocity survey: growth rate measurements from the galaxy power spectrum
F. Qin, C. Blake, C. Howlett +63
The large-scale structure of the Universe and its evolution encapsulate a wealth of cosmological information. A powerful means of unlocking this knowledge lies in measuring the aut…
Broad Absorption Line Quasars in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Early Data Release
S. Filbert, P. Martini, K. Seebaluck +41
Broad absorption line (BAL) quasars are characterized by gas clouds that absorb flux at the wavelength of common quasar spectral features, although blueshifted by velocities that c…
Measurements of quasar proximity zones with the Ly forest of DESI Y1 quasars
Ryuichiro Hada, Paul Martini, David H. Weinberg +41
The intergalactic medium (IGM) around quasars is shaped by their dense environments and by their excess ionizing radiation, forming a "quasar proximity zone" whose size and anisotr…
Full-Shape analysis of the power spectrum and bispectrum of DESI DR1 LRG and QSO samples
S. Novell-Masot, H. Gil-MarÃn, L. Verde +66
We present the first joint analysis of the power spectrum and bispectrum using the Data Release 1 (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), focusing on Luminous Red…
The Early Data Release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +266
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed its five-month Survey Validation in May 2021. Spectra of stellar and extragalactic targets from Survey Validation constitu…
Cosmological implications of DESI DR2 BAO measurements in light of the latest ACT DR6 CMB data
C. Garcia-Quintero, H. E. Noriega, A. de Mattia +92
We report cosmological results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) when combined with recent data from the Ataca…
The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: The Tully-Fisher Distance Catalog
K. Douglass, S. BenZvi, A. G. Kim +64
We calibrate the Tully-Fisher relation (TFR) using observations of spiral galaxies taken during the first year (DR1) of the DESI galaxy redshift survey. The rotational velocities o…
The atomic gas sequence and mass-metallicity relation from dwarfs to massive galaxies
D. Scholte, A. Saintonge, J. Moustakas +43
Galaxy scaling relations provide insights into the processes that drive galaxy evolution. The extension of these scaling relations into the dwarf galaxy regime is of particular int…
The DESI Y1 RR Lyrae catalog I: Empirical modeling of the cyclic variation of spectroscopic properties and a chemodynamical analysis of the outer halo
Gustavo E. Medina, Ting S. Li, Sergey E. Koposov +44
We present the catalog of RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) observed in the first year of operations of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. This catalog contains 6,240 RRLs…
DESI 2024 IV: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman Alpha Forest
DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +196
We present the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from the Lyman- (Ly) forest of high-redshift quasars with the first-year dataset of the Dark Energy Spectro…
The DESI Survey Validation: Results from Visual Inspection of Bright Galaxies, Luminous Red Galaxies, and Emission Line Galaxies
Ting-Wen Lan, R. Tojeiro, E. Armengaud +79
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Survey has obtained a set of spectroscopic measurements of galaxies to validate the final survey design and target selections. To as…
Selection of high-redshift Lyman-Break Galaxies from broadband and wide photometric surveys
C. Payerne, W. d'Assignies Doumerg, C. Yèche +44
In this paper, we investigate the possibility of selecting high-redshift Lyman-Break Galaxies (LBG) using current and future broadband wide photometric surveys, such as UNIONS or t…
Deep Spectroscopy with DESI for Photometric Redshift Training and Calibration
Biprateep Dey, Jeffrey A. Newman, Tianqing Zhang +62
Deep spectroscopic samples can be used to improve photometric redshift (photo-) estimates and reduce uncertainties on redshift distributions. Such improvements can increase the…
DESI DR2 Results I: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman Alpha Forest
DESI Collaboration, M. Abdul-Karim, J. Aguilar +147
We present the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements with the Lyman-alpha (LyA) forest from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI…
Lensing Without Borders: Measurements of galaxy-galaxy lensing and projected galaxy clustering in DESI DR1
S. Heydenreich, A. Leauthaud, C. Blake +64
We present Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing measurements obtained by cross-correlating spectroscopically observed galaxies from the first data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrum…
Lyman- forest holography: 3D predictions from 1D measurements
J. Chaves-Montero, A. Font-Ribera, J. Aguilar +68
The paper introduces ForestFlow, an emulator that connects one‑dimensional Lyman‑α forest flux power spectrum measurements to three‑dimensional clustering predictions, enabling com…
Validation of the DESI DR2 Ly BAO analysis using synthetic datasets
L. Casas, H. K. Herrera-Alcantar, J. Chaves-Montero +95
The second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), containing data from the first three years of observations, doubles the number of Lyman- (Ly$Î…
The clustering of Lyman Alpha Emitting galaxies at z=2-3
M. White, A. Raichoor, Arjun Dey +52
We measure the clustering of Lyman Alpha Emitting galaxies (LAEs) selected from the One-hundred-square-degree DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN) survey, with spectroscopic follow-…
Peering down the barrel with DESI DR2: 10 000+ inflows at < 0.6 reveal how galaxies accrete cold gas
S. Weng, A. Saintonge, M. Pieri +39
Direct observational constraints on how galaxies acquire their gas remain remarkably limited, hindering our understanding of the baryon cycle. We present a search for down-the-barr…
The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: growth rate measurements from galaxy and momentum correlation functions
R. J. Turner, C. Blake, F. Qin +61
Joint analysis of the local peculiar velocity and galaxy density fields offers a promising route to testing cosmological models of gravity. We present a measurement of the normalis…
Not all lensing is low: An analysis of DESIDES using the Lagrangian Effective Theory of LSS
S. Chen, J. DeRose, R. Zhou +39
In this work we use Lagrangian perturbation theory to analyze the harmonic space galaxy clustering signal of Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) and Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) targeted by…
Evidence for large baryonic feedback at low and intermediate redshifts from kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations with ACT and DESI photometric galaxies
B. Hadzhiyska, S. Ferraro, B. Ried Guachalla +70
Recent advances in cosmological observations have provided an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the distribution of baryons relative to the underlying matter. In this work,…
Cosmological constraints from a joint DESI DR1 Full-Shape and DR2 BAO
D. Forero-Sánchez, H. Gil-MarÃn, L. Verde +61
We present a cosmological analysis combining full-shape (FS) clustering measurements from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) DR1 with baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO)…
Fiducial-Cosmology-dependent systematics for the DESI 2024 Full-Shape Analysis
R. Gsponer, S. Ramirez-Solano, F. RodrÃguez-MartÃnez +65
We assess the impact of the fiducial cosmology choice on cosmological inference from full-shape (FS) fits of the galaxy power spectrum in the DESI 2024 Data Release 1 (DR1). Using…
Without the Sound Horizon (or Supernovae): A 2% Measurement in DESI DR1
E. A. Zaborowski, P. Taylor, K. Honscheid +58
The sound horizon scale is a key source of information for early-time measurements, and is therefore a common target of new physics proposed to solve the Hubble tension…
Column density distribution and cosmological mass density of neutral gas: Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III Data Release 9
P. Noterdaeme, P. Petitjean, W. C. Carithers +19
We present the first results from an ongoing survey for Damped Lyman-alpha systems (DLAs) in the spectra of z>2 quasars observed in the course of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscop…
Unveiling Hidden Lyman Alpha Emitters in the DESI DR1 Data
Jui-Kuan Chan, Ting-Wen Lan, J. Xavier Prochaska +39
We present an automatic method based on machine-learning convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture to detect Lyman alpha emitters (LAE) hidden in the Data Release 1 spectrosc…
Intrinsic alignment demographics for next-generation lensing: Revealing galaxy property trends with DESI Y1 direct measurements
J. Siegel, J. McCullough, A. Amon +60
We present direct measurements of the intrinsic alignments (IA) of over 2 million spectroscopic galaxies using DESI Data Release 1 and imaging from four lensing surveys: DES, HSC,…
Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Theory and Modelling Systematics for the DESI 2024 results
Shi-Fan Chen, Cullan Howlett, Martin White +58
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of how fitting of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) is carried out within the upcoming Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's (DESI) 2…
Impact of Systematic Redshift Errors on the Cross-correlation of the Lyman- Forest with Quasars at Small Scales Using DESI Early Data
Abby Bault, David Kirkby, Julien Guy +59
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will measure millions of quasar spectra by the end of its 5 year survey. Quasar redshift errors impact the shape of the Lyman- f…