Publications (25)
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…
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…
Intracluster Planetary Nebulae in the Virgo Cluster
K. C. Freeman, M. Arnaboldi, M. Capaccioli +8
We briefly describe the properties of the confirmed spectroscopic sample of intracluster planetary nebulae recently discovered in the Virgo cluster. We find 23 bonafide intracluste…
MIFS: A Mega Integral Field Spectrograph for the VLT
R. Bacon, G. Adam, S. Cabrit +14
We describe MIFS, a second generation integral-field spectrograph for the VLT, operating in the visible wavelength range. It combines a 1'x1' field of view with the improved spatia…
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…
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…
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…
The Globular Cluster Kinematics and Galaxy Dark Matter Content of NGC 4649 (M60)
T. Bridges, K. Gebhardt, R. Sharples +7
From observations with the GMOS multi-slit spectrograph on the Gemini North telescope, we have obtained spectra for 39 globular cluster candidates in the Virgo giant elliptical gal…
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…
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…
KROSS: Mapping the Ha emission across the star-formation sequence at z~1
Georgios E. Magdis, M. Bureau, J. P. Stott +7
We present first results from the KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS), an ongoing large kinematical survey of a thousand, z~1 star forming galaxies, with VLT KMOS. Out o…
Extreme Multiplex Spectrograph: An efficient mechanical design for high-demanding requirements
S. Becerril, K. Meisenheimer, C. M. Dubbeldam +5
XMS is a multi-channel wide-field spectrograph designed for the prime focus of the 3.5m Calar-Alto telescope. The instrument is composed by four quadrants, each of which contains a…
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…
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 (…
Chronos: A NIR spectroscopic galaxy survey. From the formation of galaxies to the peak of activity
I. Ferreras, R. Sharples, J. S. Dunlop +30
Chronos is our response to ESA's call for white papers to define the science for the future L2, L3 missions. Chronos targets the formation and evolution of galaxies, by collecting…
Chronos: A NIR spectroscopic survey to target the most important phases of galaxy evolution across cosmic time
I. Ferreras, M. Cropper, R. Sharples +15
(Abridged summary) Responding to ESA's Voyage 2050 call to define the long-term plan for the future space missions that will address the astrophysics science questions during the 2…
Measuring Fiber Positioning Accuracy and Throughput with Fiber Dithering for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
E. F. Schlafly, D. Schlegel, S. BenZvi +47
Highly multiplexed, fiber-fed spectroscopy is enabling surveys of millions of stars and galaxies. The performance of these surveys depends on accurately positioning fibers in the f…
Correcting Turbulence-induced Errors in Fiber Positioning for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
E. F. Schlafly, J. Guy, K. Honscheid +37
Highly-multiplexed, robotic, fiber-fed spectroscopic surveys are observing tens of millions of stars and galaxies. For many systems, accurate positioning relies on imaging the fibe…
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…
ORIGIN: Metal Creation and Evolution from the Cosmic Dawn
J. W. den Herder, L. Piro, T. Ohashi +156
ORIGIN is a proposal for the M3 mission call of ESA aimed at the study of metal creation from the epoch of cosmic dawn. Using high-spectral resolution in the soft X-ray band, ORIGI…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…