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Publications (136)

astro-ph.CO2017

Exploring cosmic origins with CORE: effects of observer peculiar motion

C. Burigana, C. S. Carvalho, T. Trombetti +116

We discuss the effects on the CMB, CIB, and thermal SZ effect due to the peculiar motion of an observer with respect to the CMB rest frame, which induces boosting effects. We inves…

astro-ph.GA2025

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,

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.CO2025

The Simons Observatory: forecasted constraints on primordial gravitational waves with the expanded array of Small Aperture Telescopes

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, I. Abril-Cabezas, S. Adachi +479

We present updated forecasts for the scientific performance of the degree-scale (0.5 deg FWHM at 93 GHz), deep-field survey to be conducted by the Simons Observatory (SO). By 2027,…

astro-ph.CO2025

DESI Spectroscopy of HETDEX Emission-line Candidates I: Line Discrimination Validation

Martin Landriau, Erin Mentuch Cooper, Dustin Davis +50

The Hobby-Eberly Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is an untargeted spectroscopic galaxy survey that uses Ly emitting galaxies (LAEs) as tracers of 1.9 < z < 3.5 large scale stru…

astro-ph.CO2026

Validation of the DESI-DR1 3x2-pt analysis: scale cut and shear ratio tests

N. Emas, A. Porredon, C. Blake +54

Combined survey analyses of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing (3x2-pt studies) will allow new and accurate tests of the standard cosmological model. However, careful…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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).…

astro-ph.CO2025

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 (…

astro-ph.CO2024

CMB lensing and Lyα forest cross bispectrum from DESI's first-year quasar sample

N. G. Karaçaylı, P. Martini, D. H. Weinberg +50

The squeezed cross-bispectrum \bispeconed\ between the gravitational lensing in the Cosmic Microwave Background and the 1D \lya\ forest power spectrum can constrain bias parameters…

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.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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 ()…

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.CO2017

Detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with BOSS DR11 and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

F. De Bernardis, S. Aiola, E. M. Vavagiakis +55

We present a new measurement of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect using data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS).…

astro-ph.GA2026

Electron temperature relations and the direct N, O, Ne, S and Ar abundances of 49959 star-forming galaxies in DESI Data Release 2

D. Scholte, F. Cullen, J. M. Moustakas +43

We present the largest direct-method abundance catalogue of galaxies to date, containing measurements of 49959 star-forming galaxies at z < 0.96 from DESI Data Release 2. By direct…

astro-ph.CO2025

Spectroscopic Characterization of redMaPPer Galaxy Clusters with DESI

J. Myles, D. Gruen, T. Jeltema +44

Optical galaxy cluster identification algorithms such as redMaPPer promise to enable an array of astrophysical and cosmological studies, but suffer from biases whereby galaxies in…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

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.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

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.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

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Selected Galaxy Clusters Catalog

HSC Collaboration, M. Aguena, S. Aiola +98

We present the results of a search for galaxy clusters in the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) microwave sky maps covering 16293 square degrees in three frequ…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

hep-ex2025

United States Muon Collider Community White Paper for the European Strategy for Particle Physics Update

A. Abdelhamid, D. Acosta, P. Affleck +301

This document is being submitted to the 2024-2026 European Strategy for Particle Physics Update (ESPPU) process on behalf of the US Muon Collider community, with its preparation co…

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.CO2024

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

DESI Data Release 2 ELGs: Property-dependent subsamples, imaging systematics, and clustering

T. Hagen, K. S. Dawson, Z. Zheng +42

Using emission-line galaxies (ELGs) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2, we evaluate a property-dependent correction to imaging systematics. We deri…

astro-ph.CO2026

Detection of supernova magnitude fluctuations induced by large-scale structure

A. Nguyen, C. Blake, R. J. Turner +56

The peculiar velocities of supernovae and their host galaxies are correlated with the large-scale structure of the Universe, and can be used to constrain the growth rate of structu…

astro-ph.CO2024

An analysis of parameter compression and full-modeling techniques with Velocileptors for DESI 2024 and beyond

M. Maus, S. Chen, M. White +52

In anticipation of forthcoming data releases of current and future spectroscopic surveys, we present the validation tests and analysis of systematic effects within \texttt{velocile…

astro-ph.IM2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2024

A comparison of effective field theory models of redshift space galaxy power spectra for DESI 2024 and future surveys

M. Maus, Y. Lai, H. E. Noriega +54

In preparation for the next generation of galaxy redshift surveys, and in particular the year-one data release from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), we investigate…

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-ph.CO2021

Cross-correlation of DES Y3 lensing and ACT/ thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect I: Measurements, systematics tests, and feedback model constraints

M. Gatti, S. Pandey, E. Baxter +126

We present a tomographic measurement of the cross-correlation between thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) maps from and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and weak ga…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

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.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.IM2023

class_sz I: Overview

B. Bolliet, A. Kusiak, F. McCarthy +16

class_sz is a versatile and robust code in C and Python that can compute theoretical predictions for a wide range of observables relevant to cross-survey science in the Stage IV er…

astro-ph.CO2020

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Catalog of > 4000 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Galaxy Clusters

M. Hilton, C. Sifón, S. Naess +146

We present a catalog of 4195 optically confirmed Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) selected galaxy clusters detected with signal-to-noise > 4 in 13,211 deg of sky surveyed by the Atacama…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

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.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.CO2024

Validation of the DESI 2024 Ly forest BAO analysis using synthetic datasets

Andrei Cuceu, Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Calum Gordon +56

The first year of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) contains the largest set of Lyman- (Ly) forest spectra ever observed. This data, collected in th…

astro-ph.GA2017

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: Extragalactic sources in Cosmic Microwave Background maps

G. De Zotti, J. Gonzalez-Nuevo, M. Lopez-Caniego +121

We discuss the potential of a next generation space-borne Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment for studies of extragalactic sources. Our analysis has particular bearing on…

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.CO2025

Testing gravitational physics by combining DESI DR1 and weak lensing datasets using the E_G estimator

S. J. Rauhut, C. Blake, U. Andrade +61

The action of gravitational physics across space-time creates observable signatures in the behaviour of light and matter. We perform combined-probe studies using data from the Bary…

astro-ph.CO2025

Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity from the cross-correlation of DESI Luminous Red Galaxies and CMB lensing

J. R. Bermejo-Climent, R. Demina, A. Krolewski +47

We use the angular cross-correlation between a luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Survey data release DR9 and the

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.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

Local primordial non-Gaussianity using cross-correlations of DESI tracers

A. J. Rosado-Marín, 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…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

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.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

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

Emulating galaxy and peculiar velocity clustering on non-linear scales

T. Dumerchat, J. Bautista, C. Ravoux +37

We explore the potential of cross-correlating galaxies and peculiar velocities on non-linear scales to enhance cosmological constraints. Leveraging the \textsc{AbacusSummit} simula…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

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.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

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.CO2025

The Lyman- Forest from LBGs: First 3D Correlation Measurement with DESI and Prospects for Cosmology

Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Eric Armengaud, Christophe Yèche +50

The Lyman- (Ly) forest is a key tracer of large-scale structure at redshifts z > 2, traditionally studied using spectra of quasars. Here, we explore the viability Lyman Bre…

astro-ph.CO2026

The DESI DR1 Peculiar Velocity Survey: global zero-point and constraints

A. Carr, C. Howlett, A. J. Amsellem +55

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in its first Data Release (DR1) already provides more than 100,000 galaxies with relative distance measurements. The primary purpose…

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

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…

astro-ph.CO2024

Optimal Reconstruction of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations for DESI 2024

E. Paillas, Z. Ding, X. Chen +73

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide a robust standard ruler to measure the expansion history of the Universe through galaxy clustering. Density-field reconstruction is now a…

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.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.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

The DESI-Lensing Mock Challenge: large-scale cosmological analysis of 3x2-pt statistics

C. Blake, C. Garcia-Quintero, S. Ahlen +41

The current generation of large galaxy surveys will test the cosmological model by combining multiple types of observational probes. Realising the statistical promise of these new…

astro-ph.CO2023

The Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with ACT, DES, and BOSS: a Novel Hybrid Estimator

M. Mallaby-Kay, S. Amodeo, J. C. Hill +80

The kinematic and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ and tSZ) effects probe the abundance and thermodynamics of ionized gas in galaxies and clusters. We present a new hybrid estimator…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2022

Superclustering with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and Dark Energy Survey: I. Evidence for thermal energy anisotropy using oriented stacking

M. Lokken, R. Hložek, A. van Engelen +104

The cosmic web contains filamentary structure on a wide range of scales. On the largest scales, superclustering aligns multiple galaxy clusters along inter-cluster bridges, visible…

astro-ph.CO2022

Cross-correlation of DES Y3 lensing and ACT/ thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect II: Modeling and constraints on halo pressure profiles

S. Pandey, M. Gatti, E. Baxter +121

Hot, ionized gas leaves an imprint on the cosmic microwave background via the thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect. The cross-correlation of gravitational lensing (which traces…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

#lyman-alpha forest#large-scale structure#hydrodynamical simulations#emulators
astro-ph.IM2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2024

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…

astro-ph.CO2017

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: B-mode Component Separation

M. Remazeilles, A. J. Banday, C. Baccigalupi +113

We demonstrate that, for the baseline design of the CORE satellite mission, the polarized foregrounds can be controlled at the level required to allow the detection of the primordi…

astro-ph.CO2025

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,…

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmological constraints from a joint DESI DR1 Full-Shape and DR2 BAO

D. Forero-Sánchez, H. Gil-Marín, 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)…

astro-ph.CO2024

Weak lensing combined with the kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect: A study of baryonic feedback

L. Bigwood, A. Amon, A. Schneider +122

Extracting precise cosmology from weak lensing surveys requires modelling the non-linear matter power spectrum, which is suppressed at small scales due to baryonic feedback process…

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.CO2025

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,…

astro-ph.CO2024

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…

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…