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Publications (135)

astro-ph.GA2025

The Cocytos Stream: A Disrupted Globular Cluster from our Last Major Merger?

Christian Aganze, Vedant Chandra, Risa H. Wechsler +47

The census of stellar streams and dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way provides direct constraints on galaxy formation models and the nature of dark matter. The DESI Milky Way survey (w…

astro-ph.GA2023

PROVABGS: The Probabilistic Stellar Mass Function of the BGS One-Percent Survey

ChangHoon Hahn, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Shadab Alam +33

We present the probabilistic stellar mass function (pSMF) of galaxies in the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS), observed during the One-Percent Survey. The One-Percent Survey was one…

astro-ph.CO2019

The Buzzard Flock: Dark Energy Survey Synthetic Sky Catalogs

Joseph DeRose, Risa H. Wechsler, Matthew R. Becker +52

We present a suite of 18 synthetic sky catalogs designed to support science analysis of galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) data. For each catalog, we use a computat…

astro-ph.IM2016

The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

DESI Collaboration, Amir Aghamousa, Jessica Aguilar +290

DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure through…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Composite Spectrum of QSO Absorption Line Systems in DESI DR2

Lucas Napolitano, Adam D. Myers, Adam Tedeschi +43

We present details regarding the construction of a composite spectrum of quasar (QSO) absorption line systems. In this composite spectrum we identify more than 70 absorption lines,…

astro-ph.GA2015

Discovery of two gravitationally lensed quasars in the Dark Energy Survey

Adriano Agnello, Tommaso Treu, Fernanda Ostrovski +77

We present spectroscopic confirmation of two new lensed quasars via data obtained at the 6.5m Magellan/Baade Telescope. The lens candidates have been selected from the Dark Energy…

astro-ph.GA2025

Luminosity and stellar mass functions of faint photometric satellites around spectroscopic central galaxies from DESI Year-1 Bright Galaxy Survey

Wenting Wang, Xiaohu Yang, Yipeng Jing +47

We measure the luminosity functions (LFs) and stellar mass functions (SMFs) of photometric satellite galaxies around spectroscopically identified isolated central galaxies (ICGs).…

astro-ph.CO2025

Measurement of Parity-Violating Modes of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Year 1 Luminous Red Galaxies' 4-Point Correlation Function

Zachary Slepian, Alex Krolewski, Alessandro Greco +38

Here we report the first measurement of the parity-violating (PV) 4-Point Correlation Function (4PCF) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's Year 1 Luminous Red Galaxy (DESI…

astro-ph.SR2026

The Binary Fraction of Stars in the Dwarf Galaxy Ursa Minor via Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Tian Qiu, Wenting Wang, Sergey Koposov +45

We utilize multi-epoch line-of-sight velocity measurements from the Milky Way Survey of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to estimate the binary fraction for member stars in…

astro-ph.CO2025

Modelling the impact of quasar redshift errors on the full-shape analysis of correlations in the Lyman- forest

Calum Gordon, Andrei Cuceu, Andreu Font-Ribera +45

In preparation for the first cosmological measurements from the full-shape of the Lyman- (Ly) forest from DESI, we must carefully model all relevant systematics that might…

astro-ph.CO2020

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Cluster Abundances and Weak Lensing

DES Collaboration, Tim Abbott, Michel Aguena +129

We perform a joint analysis of the counts and weak lensing signal of redMaPPer clusters selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 dataset. Our analysis uses the same shear…

astro-ph.CO2017

Core or cusps: The central dark matter profile of a redshift one strong lensing cluster with a bright central image

Thomas E. Collett, Elizabeth Buckley-Geer, Huan Lin +58

We report on SPT-CLJ2011-5228, a giant system of arcs created by a cluster at . The arc system is notable for the presence of a bright central image. The source is a Lyman…

astro-ph.GA2025

Backlighting extended gas halos around luminous red galaxies: kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from DESI Y1 x ACT

Bernardita Ried Guachalla, Emmanuel Schaan, Boryana Hadzhiyska +58

The gas density profile around galaxies, shaped by feedback and affecting the galaxy lensing signal, is imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the kinematic Sunyaev-…

astro-ph.GA2023

Detecting and Characterizing Mg II absorption in DESI Survey Validation Quasar Spectra

Lucas Napolitano, Agnesh Pandey, Adam D. Myers +33

We present findings of the detection of Magnesium II (Mg II, λ = 2796, 2803 à ) absorbers from the early data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). DESI is p…

astro-ph.CO2025

Cosmological Constraints from Full-Scale Clustering and Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing with DESI DR1

Johannes U. Lange, Alexandra Wells, Andrew Hearin +76

We present constraints on cosmic structure growth from the analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing with galaxies from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI…

astro-ph.CO2022

A Spectroscopic Road Map for Cosmic Frontier: DESI, DESI-II, Stage-5

David J. Schlegel, Simone Ferraro, Greg Aldering +62

In this white paper, we present an experimental road map for spectroscopic experiments beyond DESI. DESI will be a transformative cosmological survey in the 2020s, mapping 40 milli…

astro-ph.GA2020

Dark Energy Survey Identification of A Low-Mass Active Galactic Nucleus at Redshift 0.823 from Optical Variability

Hengxiao Guo, Colin J. Burke, Xin Liu +56

We report the identification of a low-mass AGN, DES J02180430, in a redshift galaxy in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Supernova field. We select DES J02180430 as an…

astro-ph.GA2025

A Comprehensive Characterization of Galaxy-cool CGM Connections at with DESI Year 1 Data

Yu Voon Ng, Ting-Wen Lan, J. Xavier Prochaska +41

We investigate the relationships between the cool circumgalactic medium (CGM), traced by Ca II absorption lines, and galaxy properties at using galaxy-quasa…

astro-ph.CO2023

Planting a Lyman alpha forest on AbacusSummit

Boryana Hadzhiyska, Andreu Font-Ribera, Andrei Cuceu +19

The full-shape correlations of the Lyman alpha (Ly) forest contain a wealth of cosmological information through the Alcock-Paczyński effect. However, these measurements are ch…

astro-ph.GA2020

Discovery of a Candidate Binary Supermassive Black Hole in a Periodic Quasar from Circumbinary Accretion Variability

Wei-Ting Liao, Yu-Ching Chen, Xin Liu +68

Binary supermassive black holes (BSBHs) are expected to be a generic byproduct from hierarchical galaxy formation. The final coalescence of BSBHs is thought to be the loudest gravi…

astro-ph.CO2023

DESI and DECaLS (D&D): galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements with 1% survey and its forecast

Ji Yao, Huanyuan Shan, Pengjie Zhang +19

The shear measurement from DECaLS (Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey) provides an excellent opportunity for galaxy-galaxy lensing study with DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrume…

astro-ph.CO2024

Forward modeling fluctuations in the DESI LRGs target sample using image simulations

Hui Kong, Ashley J. Ross, Klaus Honscheid +50

We use the forward modeling pipeline, Obiwan, to study the imaging systematics of the Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) targeted by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We u…

astro-ph.CO2024

ELG Spectroscopic Systematics Analysis of the DESI Data Release 1

Jiaxi Yu, Ashley J. Ross, Antoine Rocher +58

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) uses more than 2.4 million Emission Line Galaxies (ELGs) for 3D large-scale structure (LSS) analyses in its Data Release 1 (DR1). Such l…

astro-ph.GA2019

Spectral Variability of a Sample of Extreme Variability Quasars and Implications for the MgII Broad-line Region

Qian Yang, Yue Shen, Yu-Ching Chen +49

We present new Gemini/GMOS optical spectroscopy of 16 extreme variability quasars (EVQs) that dimmed by more than 1.5 mag in the band between the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS…

astro-ph.GA2024

Measuring the conditional luminosity and stellar mass functions of galaxies by combining the DESI LS DR9, SV3 and Y1 data

Yirong Wang, Xiaohu Yang, Yizhou Gu +42

In this investigation, we leverage the combination of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Legacy imaging Surveys Data Release 9 (DESI LS DR9), Survey Validation 3 (SV3), and Year…

astro-ph.CO2024

Constraints on the spacetime variation of the fine-structure constant using DESI emission-line galaxies

Linhua Jiang, Zhiwei Pan, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +38

We present strong constraints on the spacetime variation of the fine-structure constant using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). In this pilot work, we utilize $…

astro-ph.IM2026

Bayesian Component Separation for DESI LAE Automated Spectroscopic Redshifts and Photometric Targeting

Ana Sofía M. Uzsoy, Andrew K. Saydjari, Arjun Dey +37

Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) are valuable high-redshift cosmological probes traditionally identified using specialized narrow-band photometric surveys. In ground-based spectroscopy,…

astro-ph.IM2021

Installation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument at the Mayall 4-meter telescope

Robert Besuner, Lori Allen, Charles Baltay +34

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will measure the expansion history of the Universe using the Baryon Acoustic…

astro-ph.GA2026

The velocity field of our Milky Way outer stellar halo based on DESI DR2

Songting Li, Wenting Wang, Sergey E. Koposov +53

Using 64,000 halo K giants from Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) second Data Release (DR2), we decompose the Milky Way (MW) stellar halo between 3 and 160 kpc into metal…

astro-ph.GA2020

The Curious Case of PHL 293B: A Long-Lived Transient in a Metal-Poor Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy

Colin J. Burke, Vivienne F. Baldassare, Xin Liu +51

We report on small-amplitude optical variability and recent dissipation of the unusually persistent broad emission lines in the blue compact dwarf galaxy PHL 293B. The galaxy's unu…

astro-ph.GA2020

Dust Reverberation Mapping in Distant Quasars from Optical and Mid-Infrared Imaging Surveys

Qian Yang, Yue Shen, Xin Liu +47

The size of the dust torus in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and their high-luminosity counterparts, quasars, can be inferred from the time delay between UV/optical accretion disk co…

astro-ph.CO2025

Enhancing Multiplet Alignment Measurements with Imaging

Alexus Annika Kumwembe, Claire Lamman, Daniel Eisenstein +35

We demonstrate that measurements of the gravitational tidal field made with spectroscopic redshifts can be improved with information from imaging surveys. The average orientation o…

astro-ph.GA2025

Iron-corrected Single-epoch Black Hole Masses of DESI Quasars at low redshift

Zhiwei Pan, Linhua Jiang, Wei-Jian Guo +31

We present a study on the possible overestimation of single-epoch supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses in previous works, based on more than 55,000 type 1 quasars at $0.25 < z < 0…

astro-ph.CO2024

Local primordial non-Gaussianity from the large-scale clustering of photometric DESI luminous red galaxies

Mehdi Rezaie, Ashley J. Ross, Hee-Jong Seo +46

We use angular clustering of luminous red galaxies from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) imaging surveys to constrain the local primordial non-Gaussianity parameter…

astro-ph.GA2026

Signatures of a Tidally Induced Spiral Arm at the Anticenter of the Milky Way and a Kinematically Extended Anticenter Stream Using DESI DR2

Mika Lambert, Constance M. Rockosi, Sergey E. Koposov +46

Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Milky Way Survey (DESI MWS), we examine the 6D space of the anticenter region of the stellar disk (150 Galactic longitude…

astro-ph.GA2026

ODIN: Confirmation and 3D Reconstruction of Six Massive Protoclusters at Cosmic Noon

Ashley Ortiz, Vandana Ramakrishnan, Kyoung-Soo Lee +64

Protoclusters represent sites of accelerated galaxy formation and extreme astrophysical activity characteristic of dense environments. Identifying massive protoclusters and mapping…

astro-ph.CO2025

A Spectroscopic Search for Optical Emission Lines from Dark Matter Decay

Hanyue Wang, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +19

We search for narrow-line optical emission from dark matter decay by stacking dark-sky spectra from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) at the redshift of nearby galaxi…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Constraining Baryonic Physics in the Universe

Hung-Jin Huang, Tim Eifler, Rachel Mandelbaum +74

Measurements of large-scale structure are interpreted using theoretical predictions for the matter distribution, including potential impacts of baryonic physics. We constrain the f…

astro-ph.HE2025

AT2025ulz and S250818k: Leveraging DESI spectroscopy in the hunt for a kilonova associated with a sub-solar mass gravitational wave candidate

Xander J. Hall, Antonella Palmese, Brendan O'Connor +47

On August 18th, 2025, the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA collaboration reported a sub-threshold gravitational wave candidate detection consistent with a sub-solar-mass neutron star merger, den…

astro-ph.IM2022

The Robotic Multi-Object Focal Plane System of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

Joseph Harry Silber, Parker Fagrelius, Kevin Fanning +97

A system of 5,020 robotic fiber positioners was installed in 2019 on the Mayall Telescope, at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The robots automatically re-target their optical fiber…

astro-ph.IM2016

The DESI Experiment Part II: Instrument Design

DESI Collaboration, Amir Aghamousa, Jessica Aguilar +290

DESI (Dark Energy Spectropic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations and the growth of structure through redshift…

astro-ph.HE2024

The MOST Hosts Survey: spectroscopic observation of the host galaxies of ~40,000 transients using DESI

Maayane T. Soumagnac, Peter Nugent, Robert A. Knop +54

We present the MOST Hosts survey (Multi-Object Spectroscopy of Transient Hosts). The survey is planned to run throughout the five years of operation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopi…

astro-ph.GA2025

GD-1 Stellar Stream and Cocoon in the DESI Early Data Release

Monica Valluri, Parker Fagrelius, Sergey. E. Koposov +49

We present 115 new spectroscopically identified members of the GD-1 tidal stream observed with the 5000-fiber Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We confirm the existence…

astro-ph.EP2018

Astrometry and Occultation predictions to Trans-Neptunian and Centaur Objects observed within the Dark Energy Survey

Martin Banda-Huarca, Julio Camargo, Josselin Desmars +59

Transneptunian objects (TNOs) are a source of invaluable information to access the history and evolution of the outer solar system. However, observing these faint objects is a diff…

astro-ph.CO2022

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program results: Type Ia Supernova brightness correlates with host galaxy dust

Cole Meldorf, Antonella Palmese, Dillon Brout +68

Cosmological analyses with type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) often assume a single empirical relation between color and luminosity () and do not account for varying host-galaxy dust…

astro-ph.CO2024

Redshift evolution and covariances for joint lensing and clustering studies with DESI Y1

Sihan Yuan, Chris Blake, Alex Krolewski +48

Galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) and clustering measurements from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Year 1 (DESI Y1) dataset promise to yield unprecedented combined-probe tests o…

astro-ph.HE2020

Candidate Periodically Variable Quasars from the Dark Energy Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Yu-Ching Chen, Xin Liu, Wei-Ting Liao +62

Periodically variable quasars have been suggested as close binary supermassive black holes. We present a systematic search for periodic light curves in 625 spectroscopically confir…

astro-ph.CO2016

Cosmology from large scale galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing with Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

Juliana Kwan, Carles Sanchez, Joseph Clampitt +80

We present cosmological constraints from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) using a combined analysis of angular clustering of red galaxies and their cross-correlation with weak gravitat…

astro-ph.GA2023

Overview of the DESI Milky Way Survey

Andrew P. Cooper, Sergey E. Koposov, Carlos Allende Prieto +62

We describe the Milky Way Survey (MWS) that will be undertaken with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on the Mayall 4m telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

astro-ph.GA2025

SpecDis: Value added distance catalogue for 4 million stars from DESI Year-1 data

Songting Li, Wenting Wang, Sergey E. Koposov +55

We present the SpecDis value added stellar distance catalog accompanying DESI DR1. SpecDis trains a feed-forward Neural Network (NN) with Gaia parallaxes and gets the distance esti…

astro-ph.CO2025

Reconstructing Quasar Spectra and Measuring the Ly Forest with

ChangHoon Hahn, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Peter Melchior +37

Quasar spectra carry the imprint of foreground intergalactic medium (IGM) through absorption features. In particular, absorption caused by neutral hydrogen gas, the ``Ly forest…

astro-ph.CO2024

Detection of the large-scale tidal field with galaxy multiplet alignment in the DESI Y1 spectroscopic survey

Claire Lamman, Daniel Eisenstein, Jaime E. Forero-Romero +36

We explore correlations between the orientations of small galaxy groups, or "multiplets", and the large-scale gravitational tidal field. Using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscop…

astro-ph.CO2020

LyaCoLoRe: Synthetic Datasets for Current and Future Lyman- Forest BAO Surveys

James Farr, Andreu Font-Ribera, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux +18

The statistical power of Lyman- forest Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements is set to increase significantly in the coming years as new instruments such as the Dark E…

astro-ph.CO2026

Nonlinear Information from DESI Luminous Red Galaxies: An Emulator-Based Analysis of Pre- and Post-Reconstruction Power Spectra

Yuting Wang, Gong-Bo Zhao, Kazuya Koyama +61

We present joint measurements of the pre- and post-reconstruction power spectra, and , together with their cross-power spectrum, , for th…

astro-ph.GA2026

Cosmic Pairs: A DESI Census of Dual and Offset AGN as Precursors to Massive Black Hole Binaries

Ekaterine Dadiani, Antonella Palmese, Yihao Zhou +52

The paper presents a large, uniformly selected spectroscopic catalog of dual and offset active galactic nuclei from the first DESI data release, analyzing their host galaxy propert…

#dual active galactic nuclei#galaxy mergers#black hole binaries#spectroscopic surveys
astro-ph.CO2022

The DESI -body Simulation Project -- II. Suppressing sample variance with fast simulations

Zhejie Ding, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Yu Yu +19

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will construct a large and precise three-dimensional map of our Universe. The survey effective volume reaches $\sim20\Gpchcube$. It is a…

astro-ph.IM2021

The DESI Sky Continuum Monitor System

Suk Sien Tie, David Kirkby, Paul Martini +20

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is an ongoing spectroscopic survey to measure the dark energy equation of state to unprecedented precision. We describe the DESI Sky…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope DR6 and DESI: Structure growth measurements from the cross-correlation of DESI Legacy Imaging galaxies and CMB lensing from ACT DR6 and Planck PR4

Frank J. Qu, Qianjun Hang, Gerrit Farren +51

We measure the growth of cosmic density fluctuations on large scales and across the redshift range through the cross-correlation of the ACT DR6 CMB lensing map and gala…

astro-ph.GA2021

Characterising the target selection pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Bright Galaxy Survey

Omar Ruiz-Macias, Pauline Zarrouk, Shaun Cole +18

We present the steps taken to produce a reliable and complete input galaxy catalogue for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) using the photom…

astro-ph.CO2025

Frequentist Cosmological Constraints from Full-Shape Clustering Measurements in DESI DR1

James Morawetz, Hanyu Zhang, Marco Bonici +56

We present a frequentist analysis of clustering measurements from Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) using the standard profile likelihood method. Wh…

astro-ph.CO2025

DESI DR1 Lyα 1D power spectrum: The Fast Fourier Transform estimator measurement

Corentin Ravoux, Marie-Lynn Abdul-Karim, Jean-Marc Le Goff +64

We present the one-dimensional Lyman- forest power spectrum measurement derived from the data release 1 (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). The measuremen…

astro-ph.CO2024

The DESI One-Percent survey: exploring the Halo Occupation Distribution of Emission Line Galaxies with AbacusSummit simulations

Antoine Rocher, Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider, Etienne Burtin +50

The One-Percent survey of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument collected ~ 270k emission line galaxies (ELGs) at 0.8 < z < 1.6. The high completeness of the sample allowed the…

astro-ph.CO2023

Analysis of the impact of broad absorption lines on quasar redshift measurements with synthetic observations

Luz Ángela García, Paul Martini, Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales +17

Accurate quasar classifications and redshift measurements are increasingly important to precision cosmology experiments. Broad absorption line (BAL) features are present in 15-20\%…

astro-ph.IM2018

DES Science Portal: Creating Science-Ready Catalogs

Angelo Fausti Neto, Luiz da Costa, Aurelio Carnero Rosell +55

We present a novel approach for creating science-ready catalogs through a software infrastructure developed for the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We integrate the data products release…

astro-ph.CO2023

DESI luminous red galaxy samples for cross-correlations

Rongpu Zhou, Simone Ferraro, Martin White +36

We present two galaxy samples, selected from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (LS) DR9, with approximately 20,000 square degrees of coverage and spectroscopic redshift distributions des…

astro-ph.GA2026

Extremely Metal-Poor Galaxies in DESI DR1: Connections to Galaxies in the Early Universe

Jipeng Sui, Hu Zou, Dirk Scholte +43

Extremely Metal-Poor Galaxies (XMPGs), defined as having metallicities below 10\% of the solar value, are considered possible local analogs to primordial systems and offer a unique…

astro-ph.GA2020

Probing galaxy evolution in massive clusters using ACT and DES: splashback as a cosmic clock

Susmita Adhikari, Tae-hyeon Shin, Bhuvnesh Jain +113

We measure the projected number density profiles of galaxies and the splashback feature in clusters selected by the Sunyaev--Zeldovich (SZ) effect from the Advanced Atacama Cosmolo…

astro-ph.IM2014

Prime focus wide-field corrector designs with lossless atmospheric dispersion correction

Will Saunders, Peter Gillingham, Greg Smith +2

Wide-Field Corrector designs are presented for the Blanco and Mayall telescopes, the CFHT and the AAT. The designs are Terezibh-style, with 5 or 6 lenses, and modest negative optic…

astro-ph.CO2025

DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey -- Fundamental Plane

Khaled Said, Cullan Howlett, Tamara Davis +52

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Peculiar Velocity Survey aims to measure the peculiar velocities of early and late type galaxies within the DESI footprint using bot…

astro-ph.CO2026

A Natural Telescope: Discovery of the Strongly Lensed Type II SN 2025mkn at

Cameron Lemon, Ariel Goobar, Joel Johansson +90

We present the discovery of SN 2025mkn, a gravitationally lensed Type II supernova. First detected as a blue transient in ZTF, 0.83 from a elliptical gala…

astro-ph.HE2024

Long-term follow-up observations of extreme coronal line emitting galaxies

Peter Clark, Or Graur, Joseph Callow +40

We present new spectroscopic and photometric follow-up observations of the known sample of extreme coronal line emitting galaxies (ECLEs) identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

astro-ph.GA2026

Constraining the Galactic bar using the M92 stellar stream

Amanda Byström, Sergey E. Koposov, Ting. S. Li +42

Stellar streams are excellent probes of the gravitational potential in which they evolve. In the Milky Way (MW), globular cluster (GC) streams are routinely used to infer propertie…

astro-ph.CO2023

The DESI One-Percent Survey: Evidence for Assembly Bias from Low-Redshift Counts-in-Cylinders Measurements

Alan N. Pearl, Andrew R. Zentner, Jeffrey A. Newman +28

We explore the galaxy-halo connection information that is available in low-redshift samples from the early data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We model…

astro-ph.IM2023

The Optical Corrector for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Timothy N. Miller, Peter Doel, Gaston Gutierrez +44

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is currently measuring the spectra of 40\,million galaxies and quasars, the largest such survey ever made to probe the nature of cos…

astro-ph.CO2026

Alleviating prior dependencies for DESI DR1 clustering fits through reparameterization

Marco Bonici, Simone Paradiso, Glenn McGee +48

Bayesian analyses of the full-shape clustering of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 (DR1) exhibit prior-volume projection effects, whereby weakly constrain…

astro-ph.HE2025

AT 2018dyk: tidal disruption event or active galactic nucleus? Follow-up observations of an extreme coronal line emitter with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Peter Clark, Joseph Callow, Or Graur +29

We present fresh insights into the nature of the tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate AT 2018dyk. AT 2018dyk has sparked a debate in the literature around its classification as e…

astro-ph.CO2025

Dynamical Dark Energy in light of the DESI DR2 Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations Measurements

Gan Gu, Xiaoma Wang, Yuting Wang +57

Understanding whether cosmic acceleration arises from a cosmological constant or a dynamical component is a central goal of cosmology, and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument…

astro-ph.CO2023

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument: One-dimensional power spectrum from first Lyman- forest samples with Fast Fourier Transform

Corentin Ravoux, Marie Lynn Abdul-Karim, Eric Armengaud +63

We present the one-dimensional Lyman- forest power spectrum measurement using the first data provided by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). The data sample compri…

astro-ph.GA2024

Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. II. Statistical Properties from the First Data Release

Wei-Jian Guo, Hu Zou, Claire L. Greenwell +33

We present the identification of changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument First Data Release and Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data R…

astro-ph.IM2024

Performance of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument(DESI) Fiber System

Claire Poppett, Patrick Jelinsky, Julien Guy +17

The recently commissioned Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will measure the expansion historyof the universe using the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation technique. The spectra…

astro-ph.GA2022

The DESI PRObabilistic Value-Added Bright Galaxy Survey (PROVABGS) Mock Challenge

ChangHoon Hahn, K. J. Kwon, Rita Tojeiro +16

The PRObabilistic Value-Added Bright Galaxy Survey (PROVABGS) catalog will provide measurements of galaxy properties, such as stellar mass (), star formation rate (

astro-ph.IM2019

Astro2020 APC White Paper: The MegaMapper: a z > 2 spectroscopic instrument for the study of Inflation and Dark Energy

David J. Schlegel, Juna A. Kollmeier, Greg Aldering +74

MegaMapper is a proposed ground-based experiment to measure Inflation parameters and Dark Energy from galaxy redshifts at 2<z<5. A 6.5-m Magellan telescope will be coupled with DES…

astro-ph.CO2025

Enhancing DESI DR1 Full-Shape analyses using HOD-informed priors

Hanyu Zhang, Marco Bonici, Antoine Rocher +57

We present an analysis of DESI Data Release 1 (DR1) that incorporates Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD)-informed priors into Full-Shape (FS) modeling of the power spectrum based o…

astro-ph.CO2023

Validation of semi-analytical, semi-empirical covariance matrices for two-point correlation function for Early DESI data

Michael Rashkovetskyi, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +34

We present an extended validation of semi-analytical, semi-empirical covariance matrices for the two-point correlation function (2PCF) on simulated catalogs representative of Lumin…

astro-ph.CO2025

Galaxy-Multiplet Clustering from DESI DR2

Hanyue Wang, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +44

We present an efficient estimator for higher-order galaxy clustering using small groups of nearby galaxies, or multiplets. Using the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) sample from the Dark…

astro-ph.CO2024

Redshift-dependent RSD bias from Intrinsic Alignment with DESI Year 1 Spectra

Claire Lamman, Daniel Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +30

We estimate the redshift-dependent, anisotropic clustering signal in DESI's Year 1 Survey created by tidal alignments of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) and a selection-induced galaxy…

astro-ph.CO2026

The 3D clustering of Lyman Alpha Emitters measured with DESI

Haruki Ebina, Martin J. White, Rongpu Zhou +44

We present a clustering analysis of Lyman- emitters (LAEs) using spectroscopic observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) of candidates selected from the…

astro-ph.GA2025

Quasars acting as Strong Lenses Found in DESI DR1

Everett McArthur, Martin Millon, Meredith Powell +52

Quasars acting as strong gravitational lenses offer a rare opportunity to probe the redshift evolution of scaling relations between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies…

astro-ph.IM2023

The Target-selection Pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Adam D. Myers, John Moustakas, Stephen Bailey +51

In 2021 May, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) began a 5 yr survey of approximately 50 million total extragalactic and Galactic targets. The primary DESI dark-time ta…

astro-ph.CO2022

The effect of quasar redshift errors on Lyman- forest correlation functions

Samantha Youles, Julian E. Bautista, Andreu Font-Ribera +30

Using synthetic Lyman- forests from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, we present a study of the impact of errors in the estimation of quasar redshift on t…

astro-ph.IM2022

The MegaMapper: A Stage-5 Spectroscopic Instrument Concept for the Study of Inflation and Dark Energy

David J. Schlegel, Juna A. Kollmeier, Greg Aldering +86

In this white paper, we present the MegaMapper concept. The MegaMapper is a proposed ground-based experiment to measure Inflation parameters and Dark Energy from galaxy redshifts a…

astro-ph.CO2026

Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity from DESI DR1 quasars and Planck PR4 CMB Lensing

Sofia Chiarenza, Alex Krolewski, Marco Bonici +54

We present the first measurement of local-type primordial non-Gaussianity from the cross-correlation between million spectroscopically confirmed quasars from the first data r…

astro-ph.CO2026

Detection of the Pairwise Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and Pairwise Velocity with DESI DR1 Galaxies and ACT DR6 and Planck CMB Data

Yulin Gong, Patricio A. Gallardo, Rachel Bean +50

We present a 9.3-sigma detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) effect by combining a sample of 913,286 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Dark Energy Spectro…

astro-ph.GA2024

The first identification of Lyman Changing-look Quasars at high-redshift in DESI

Wei-Jian Guo, Zhiwei Pan, Małgorzata Siudek +38

We present two cases of Ly changing-look (CL) quasars (J1306 and J1512) along with two additional candidates (J1511 and J1602), all discovered serendipitously at through…

astro-ph.HE2026

The DESI Transients Survey: Legacy Classifications and Methodology

Xander J. Hall, Antonella Palmese, Segev BenZvi +56

We present the first systematic spectroscopic observations of extragalactic transients from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), as part of the DESI Transients Survey p…

astro-ph.HE2026

Early results in the search for extreme coronal line emitters with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Peter Clark, Joseph Callow, Or Graur +44

Here we present the results of our search through the Early Data Release (EDR) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) for extreme coronal line emitters (ECLEs) - a rare…

astro-ph.CO2025

Studying baryon acoustic oscillations using photometric redshifts from the DESI Legacy Imaging survey DR9

Christoph Saulder, Yong-Seon Song, Minji Oh +41

Context.The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Survey DR9 (DR9 hereafter), with its extensive dataset of galaxy locations and photometric redshifts, present…

astro-ph.HE2025

The rate of extreme coronal line emitters in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey LOWZ sample

Joseph Callow, Or Graur, Peter Clark +30

Extreme coronal line emitters (ECLEs) are a rare class of galaxy that exhibit strong, high-ionization iron coronal emission lines in their spectra. In some cases, these lines are t…

astro-ph.CO2024

DESIVAST: A Catalog of Low-Redshift Voids using Data from the DESI DR1 Bright Galaxy Survey

Hernan Rincon, Segev BenZvi, Kelly Douglass +37

We present three separate void catalogs created using a volume-limited sample of the DESI Year 1 Bright Galaxy Survey. We use the algorithms VoidFinder and V2 to construct void cat…

astro-ph.GA2024

Emission Line Predictions for Mock Galaxy Catalogues: a New Differentiable and Empirical Mapping from DESI

Ashod Khederlarian, Jeffrey A. Newman, Brett H. Andrews +43

We present a simple, differentiable method for predicting emission line strengths from rest-frame optical continua using an empirically-determined mapping. Extensive work has been…