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astro-ph.CO2026

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…

#lyman-alpha forest#alcock-paczynski test#baryon acoustic oscillations#dark energy
astro-ph.CO2026

First Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) Feature in the 3-Point Correlation Function of DESI DR1 Luminous Red Galaxies

Farshad Kamalinejad, Zachary Slepian, Alex Krolewski +55

We present the first detection of the 3-Point Correlation Function (3PCF) Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) signal from the DESI Data Release 1 (DR1) sample of Luminous Red Galaxie…

astro-ph.CO2026

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 <…

astro-ph.CO2025

Full-Shape analysis of the power spectrum and bispectrum of DESI DR1 LRG and QSO samples

S. Novell-Masot, H. Gil-Marín, 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…

astro-ph.CO2024

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmological constraints from the DESI DR1 Bispectrum Full-Shape and DR2 BAO

D. Forero-Sánchez, S. Novell-Masot, H. Gil-Marín +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…

astro-ph.CO2024

DESI 2024 II: Sample Definitions, Characteristics, and Two-point Clustering Statistics

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +200

We present the samples of galaxies and quasars used for DESI 2024 cosmological analyses, drawn from the DESI Data Release 1 (DR1). We describe the construction of large-scale struc…

astro-ph.CO2025

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 (…

astro-ph.CO2026

Testing Scale-Dependent Modified Gravity with DESI DR1

D. Gonzalez, G. Niz, A. Aviles +42

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) provides an unprecedented opportunity to test deviations from general relativity (GR) that introduce a new physical scale within its…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2024

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

FolpsD: combining EFT and phenomenological approaches for joint power spectrum and bispectrum analyses

P. Bansal, A. Aviles, H. E. Noriega +56

We present a theoretical model for the power spectrum and bispectrum of galaxy clustering that exploits the complementarity between small-scale power spectrum information and large…

astro-ph.CO2024

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

The Linear Point Standard Ruler with DESI DR1 and DR2 Data

N. Uberoi, F. Nikakhtar, N. Padmanabhan +45

The linear point, a purely geometric feature in the monopole of the two-point correlation function, has been proposed as an alternative standard ruler. Compared to the peak in the…

astro-ph.CO2019

WFIRST: The Essential Cosmology Space Observatory for the Coming Decade

O. Doré, C. Hirata, Y. Wang +46

Two decades after its discovery, cosmic acceleration remains the most profound mystery in cosmology and arguably in all of physics. Either the Universe is dominated by a form of da…

astro-ph.CO2026

Measurement of the galaxy-velocity power spectrum of DESI tracers with the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect using DESI DR2 and ACT DR6

Edmond Chaussidon, Selim C. Hotinli, Simone Ferraro +49

Joint analyses of high-resolution CMB temperature maps with galaxy surveys provide a unique way to reconstruct the radial velocity field of the underlying matter distribution via t…

astro-ph.CO2024

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…

astro-ph.IM2022

Overview of the Instrumentation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

B. Abareshi, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +264

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has embarked on an ambitious five-year survey to explore the nature of dark energy with spectroscopy of 40 million galaxies and quas…

astro-ph.CO2018

A map-based method for eliminating systematic modes from galaxy clustering power spectra with application to BOSS

B. Bahr-Kalus, W. J. Percival, D. J. Bacon +5

We develop a practical methodology to remove modes from a galaxy survey power spectrum that are associated with systematic errors. We apply this to the BOSS CMASS sample, to see if…

astro-ph.CO2026

Probing the matter-dominated expansion with multi-redshift Lyman- BAO from DESI DR2

Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Julien Guy, Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales +60

We present a multi-redshift Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) analysis of the DESI Data Release 2 (DR2) Lyman- (Ly) forest, splitting the forest auto-correlation and its c…

astro-ph.CO2026

Precision Kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich Measurements Across Halo Mass and Redshift with DESI DR2 and ACT DR6: Part I. Luminous Red Galaxies

F. J. Qu, B. Ried Guachalla, E. Schaan +51

We present the most precise measurements of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect around luminous red galaxies to date, detecting the signal at significance in both ha…

astro-ph.CO2024

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

#lyman-alpha forest#baryon acoustic oscillations#alcock-paczynski test#mock simulations
astro-ph.GA2026

PAC in DESI. II. Galaxy-halo connection into the frontier

Kun Xu, Carlos S. Frenk, Y. P. Jing +37

Understanding dwarf galaxy formation is crucial for testing dark matter models and reionization physics. However, constructing stellar-mass complete spectroscopic samples at low ma…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Construction of Large-scale Structure Catalogs for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

A. J. Ross, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +83

We present the technical details on how large-scale structure (LSS) catalogs are constructed from redshifts measured from spectra observed by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrume…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

#lyman-alpha forest#mock catalogues#second-order lagrangian perturbation theory#baryon acoustic oscillations
astro-ph.CO2026

Fiducial-Cosmology-dependent systematics for the DESI 2024 Full-Shape Analysis

R. Gsponer, S. Ramirez-Solano, F. Rodríguez-Martínez +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…

astro-ph.CO2026

Precision Kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich Measurements Across Halo Mass and Redshift with DESI DR2 and ACT DR6: Part II. Bright Galaxy Survey and Emission-Line Galaxies

B. Hadzhiyska, S. Ferraro, F. J. Qu +50

We present the first high-significance spectroscopic stacked kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) measurements of circumgalactic gas profiles for both Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) and Em…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

Measuring local primordial non-Gaussianity from the clustering of DESI DR1 LRGs and QSOs

Z. Brown, B. Levi, H. Randall +42

We report the first measurement of primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), parameterized by , in the configuration space two-point correlation function (2pcf). We employ…

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmological constraints from the DESI DR1 joint power spectrum and bispectrum analysis

S. Novell-Masot, H. Gil-Marín, L. Verde +48

We derive cosmological parameter constraints from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 (DR1) galaxy clustering data, based on a joint full-shape analysis…

astro-ph.CO2024

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…

astro-ph2005

Surface gravity waves in deep fluid at vertical shear flows

G. Gogoberidze, L. Samushia, G. D. Chagelishvili +2

Special features of surface gravity waves in deep fluid flow with constant vertical shear of velocity is studied. It is found that the mean flow velocity shear leads to non-trivial…

astro-ph.CO2026

Assembly bias and local Primordial non-Gaussianity from DESI DR1 Quasars

E. Fondi, L. Verde, E. Chaussidon +40

The analysis of the large-scale clustering of quasars (QSO) observed by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) represents a promising avenue for constraining local Primord…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

DESI 2024 V: Full-Shape Galaxy Clustering from Galaxies and Quasars

A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +195

We present the measurements and cosmological implications of the galaxy two-point clustering using over 4.7 million unique galaxy and quasar redshifts in the range divi…

astro-ph.GA2025

Direct Measurement of Galaxy Assembly Bias using DESI DR1 Data

Zhiwei Shao, Ying Zu, Andrés N. Salcedo +54

We report the first direct measurement of galaxy assembly bias, a critical systematic in cosmology, from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Bright Galaxy Survey. We in…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

Validation of the DESI DR2 Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Galaxies and Quasars

U. Andrade, E. Paillas, J. Mena-Fernández +116

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) data release 2 (DR2) galaxy and quasar clustering data represents a significant expansion of data from DR1, providing improved stati…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…