Publications (109)
The DESI One-Percent Survey: Exploring the Halo Occupation Distribution of Luminous Red Galaxies and Quasi-Stellar Objects with AbacusSummit
Sihan Yuan, Hanyu Zhang, Ashley J. Ross +39
We present the first comprehensive Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) analysis of the DESI One-Percent survey Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) and Quasi-Stellar Object (QSO) samples. We c…
Exploring the interaction between the MW and LMC with a large sample of blue horizontal branch stars from the DESI survey
Amanda Byström, Sergey E. Koposov, Sophia Lilleengen +42
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a Milky Way (MW) satellite that is massive enough to gravitationally attract the MW disc and inner halo, causing significant motion of the inner…
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,…
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).…
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…
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…
Dwarf galaxy halo masses from spectroscopic and photometric lensing in DESI and DES
Helena Treiber, Alexandra Amon, Risa H. Wechsler +46
We present the most precise and lowest-mass weak lensing measurements of dwarf galaxies to date, enabled by spectroscopic lenses from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Measuring using DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys Emission-Line Galaxies and Planck CMB Lensing and the Impact of Dust on Parameter Inference
Tanveer Karim, Sukhdeep Singh, Mehdi Rezaie +39
Measuring the growth of structure is a powerful probe for studying the dark sector, especially in light of the tension between primary CMB anisotropy and low-redshift survey…
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…
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-…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
First Detection of the BAO Signal from Early DESI Data
Jeongin Moon, David Valcin, Michael Rashkovetskyi +65
We present the first detection of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signal obtained using unblinded data collected during the initial two months of operations of the Stage-IV…
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…
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…
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…
Nearby stellar substructures in the Galactic halo from DESI Milky Way Survey Year 1 Data Release
Bokyoung Kim, Sergey E. Koposov, Ting S. Li +41
We report five nearby ( kpc) stellar substructures in the Galactic halo from a subset of 138,661 stars in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Mi…
DESI Mg II Absorbers: Extinction Characteristics & Quasar Redshift Accuracy
Lucas Napolitano, Adam D. Myers, Vicky Fawcett +32
In this paper, we study how absorption-line systems affect the spectra and redshifts of quasars (QSOs), using catalogs of Mg II absorbers from the early data release (EDR) and firs…
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…
Target Selection for the DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey
Christoph Saulder, Cullan Howlett, Kelly A. Douglass +35
We describe the target selection and characteristics of the DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey, the largest survey of peculiar velocities (PVs) using both the fundamental plane (FP) and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 $…
The first identification of Lyman Changing-look Quasars at high-redshift in DESI
Wei-Jian Guo, Zhiwei Pan, MaÅgorzata 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…
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…
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…
Bayesian Component Separation for DESI LAE Automated Spectroscopic Redshifts and Photometric Targeting
Ana SofÃa 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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Cosmological constraints from the cross-correlation of DESI Luminous Red Galaxies with CMB lensing from Planck PR4 and ACT DR6
Noah Sailer, Joshua Kim, Simone Ferraro +63
We infer the growth of large scale structure over the redshift range from the cross-correlation of spectroscopically calibrated Luminous Red Galaxies (LR…
DESI z >~ 5 Quasar Survey. I. A First Sample of 400 New Quasars at z ~ 4.7-6.6
Jinyi Yang, Xiaohui Fan, Ansh Gupta +39
We report the first results of a high-redshift ( >~ 5) quasar survey using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). As a DESI secondary target program, this survey is de…
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…
Analytical and EZmock covariance validation for the DESI 2024 results
Daniel Forero-Sánchez, Michael Rashkovetskyi, Otávio Alves +44
The estimation of uncertainties in cosmological parameters is an important challenge in Large-Scale-Structure (LSS) analyses. For standard analyses such as Baryon Acoustic Oscillat…
Stellar reddening map from DESI imaging and spectroscopy
Rongpu Zhou, Julien Guy, Sergey E. Koposov +54
We present new Galactic dust reddening maps of the high Galactic latitude sky using DESI imaging and spectroscopy. We directly measure the reddening of 2.6 million stars by compari…
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…
Effect of local environment on Ly line profile in DESI/ODIN LAEs
Ana SofÃa M. Uzsoy, Arjun Dey, Anand Raichoor +51
Lyman-Alpha Emitters (LAEs) are star-forming galaxies with significant Ly emission and are often used as tracers of large-scale structure at high redshift. We explore the relat…
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…
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…
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…
Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. I.Sample from the Early Data
Wei-Jian Guo, Hu Zou, Victoria Anne Fawcett +34
Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei (CL AGN) can be generally confirmed by the emergence (turn-on) or disappearance (turn-off) of broad emission lines, associated with a transient…
DESI survey validation data in the COSMOS/HSC field: Cool gas trace main sequence star-forming galaxies at the cosmic noon
Siwei Zou, Linhua Jiang, Zheng Cai +23
We present the first result in exploring the gaseous halo and galaxy correlation using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey validation data in the Cosmic Evolutio…
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…
Unraveling emission line galaxy conformity at z~1 with DESI early data
Sihan Yuan, Risa H. Wechsler, Yunchong Wang +32
Emission line galaxies (ELGs) are now the preeminent tracers of large-scale structure at z>0.8 due to their high density and strong emission lines, which enable accurate redshift m…
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…
The rate of extreme coronal line emitting galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and their relation to tidal disruption events
Joseph Callow, Or Graur, Peter Clark +27
High-ionization iron coronal lines (CLs) are a rare phenomenon observed in galaxy and quasi-stellar object spectra that are thought to be created by high-energy emission from activ…
Satellite Metallicity Enhancement I: Suppressed Star Formation, Stellar Mass Loss, and Enriched Inflow of DESI and EAGLE Galaxies around Massive Clusters
Yuanye Lin, Ying Zu, Jessica Nicole Aguilar +26
Environmental effects are a primary driver of elevated gas-phase metallicities in galaxies around massive clusters, but the underlying physical mechanisms for this satellite metall…
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…
Constraining the phase shift of relativistic species in DESI BAOs
Abbé M. Whitford, Hugo Rivera-Morales, Cullan Howlett +36
In the early Universe, neutrinos decouple quickly from the primordial plasma and propagate without further interactions. The impact of free-streaming neutrinos is to create a tempo…
Synthetic light cone catalogues of modern redshift and weak lensing surveys with AbacusSummit
Boryana Hadzhiyska, Sihan Yuan, Chris Blake +32
The joint analysis of different cosmological probes, such as galaxy clustering and weak lensing, can potentially yield invaluable insights into the nature of the primordial Univers…
DESI Massive Post-Starburst Galaxies at have compact structures and dense cores
Yunchong Zhang, David J. Setton, Sedona H. Price +33
Post-starburst galaxies (PSBs) are young quiescent galaxies that have recently experienced a rapid decrease in star formation, allowing us to probe the fast-quenching period of gal…
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…
Luminosity function of quasars at from SDSS and DESI
Gaocheng Yin, Linhua Jiang, Zhiwei Pan +54
We present a study of the evolution of type 1 quasars at , covering the peak epoch of quasar activity. The quasar evolution has been extensively explored by a variety of…
Quiescent Host Galaxies of Extended Quasars Revealed by Spectrophotometric Decomposition
Shengxiu Sun, Linhua Jiang, Zhiwei Pan +27
Previous works of low-redshift quasar host galaxies have focused on compact quasars and found that their host galaxies are mainly star-forming galaxies. Here we present a study of…
AuriDESI: Mock Catalogues for the DESI Milky Way Survey
Namitha Kizhuprakkat, Andrew P. Cooper, Alexander H. Riley +31
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Milky Way Survey (DESI MWS) will explore the assembly history of the Milky Way by characterising remnants of ancient dwarf galaxy accretion…
The dark matter content of Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies: Draco, Sextans and Ursa Minor
Hao Yang, Wenting Wang, Ling Zhu +50
The Milky Way Survey of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has so far observed three classical dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs): Draco, Sextans and Ursa Minor. Based…
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…
Baryon fraction from the BAO amplitude: a consistent approach to parameterizing perturbation growth
Andrea Crespi, Will J. Percival, Alex Krolewski +51
Galaxy clustering constrains the baryon fraction Omega_b/Omega_m through the amplitude of baryon acoustic oscillations and the suppression of perturbations entering the horizon bef…
The 2-point correlation function covariance with fewer mocks
Svyatoslav Trusov, Pauline Zarrouk, Shaun Cole +18
We present an approach for accurate estimation of the covariance of 2-point correlation functions that requires fewer mocks than the standard mock-based covariance. This can be ach…
The DESI One-Percent Survey: Exploring A Generalized SHAM for Multiple Tracers with the UNIT Simulation
Jiaxi Yu, Cheng Zhao, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez +40
We perform SubHalo Abundance Matching (SHAM) studies on UNIT simulations with \{\}-SHAM and \{\}-SHAM. They are desig…
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…
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…
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…
Disentangling the Distant Stellar Halo Using K-Giants in the DESI Year 3 Data
Namitha Kizhuprakkat, Andrew P. Cooper, Wenting Wang +42
We present a sample of 88,959 K-giants from DESI Milky Way Survey Year 3 data, which we use to characterize the chemo-dynamical properties of the stellar halo at Galactocentric dis…
Measurements of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with ACT and DESI Luminous Red Galaxies
R. Henry Liu, Simone Ferraro, Emmanuel Schaan +54
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photons scatter off the free-electron gas in galaxies and clusters, allowing us to use the CMB as a backlight to probe the gas in and around low-r…
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope DR6 and DESI: Structure formation over cosmic time with a measurement of the cross-correlation of CMB Lensing and Luminous Red Galaxies
Joshua Kim, Noah Sailer, Mathew S. Madhavacheril +70
We present a high-significance cross-correlation of CMB lensing maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) with spectroscopically calibrated luminous red…
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…
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…
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…
High redshift LBGs from deep broadband imaging for future spectroscopic surveys
Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider, Christophe Yèche, Christophe Magneville +60
Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) are promising probes for clustering measurements at high redshift, , a region only covered so far by Lyman- forest measurements. In this paper,…
The Power of DESI for Photometric Redshift Calibration: A Case Study with KiDS-1000
Diana Blanco, Alexie Leauthaud, Johannes Ulf Lange +64
Accurate redshift estimates are a critical requirement for weak lensing surveys and one of the main uncertainties in constraints on dark energy and large-scale cosmic structure. In…
ODIN: The LAE Lyα Luminosity Function over Cosmic Time and Environmental Density
Gautam Nagaraj, Robin Ciardullo, Caryl Gronwall +53
The ubiquity and relative ease of discovery make Ly emitting galaxies (LAEs) ideal tracers for cosmology. In addition, because Ly is a resonance lin…
DESI Survey Validation Spectra Reveal an Increasing Fraction of Recently Quenched Galaxies at
David J. Setton, Biprateep Dey, Gourav Khullar +24
We utilize bright Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the novel Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Survey Validation spectroscopic sample, leveraging its deep ($\sim2.5…
Stacked Reverberation Mapping of High Redshift Quasars in DESI. I. Feasibility Analysis
Rahma Alfarsy, R. E. A. Canning, Eva-Maria Mueller +49
The broad line region of quasars has long been probed by reverberation mapping techniques that measure time lags between continuum and broad emission line variations. Stacked rever…
The DESI One-Percent Survey: A concise model for galactic conformity of ELGs
Hongyu Gao, Y. P. Jing, Kun Xu +27
Galactic conformity is the phenomenon in which a galaxy of a certain physical property is correlated with its neighbors of the same property, implying a possible causal relationshi…
GTC Follow-up Observations of Very Metal-Poor Star Candidates from DESI
Carlos Allende Prieto, David S. Aguado, Jonay I. González Hernández +48
The observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will significantly increase the numbers of known extremely metal-poor stars by a factor of ~ 10, improving the…
The DESI One-Percent survey: constructing galaxy-halo connections for ELGs and LRGs using auto and cross correlations
Hongyu Gao, Y. P. Jing, Shanquan Gui +31
In the current Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, emission line galaxies (ELGs) and luminous red galaxies (LRGs) are essential for mapping the dark matter distribu…
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…
Mitigating the noise of DESI mocks using analytic control variates
Boryana Hadzhiyska, Martin J. White, Xinyi Chen +30
In order to address fundamental questions related to the expansion history of the Universe and its primordial nature with the next generation of galaxy experiments, we need to mode…
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…
The Milky Way stellar halo is twisted and doubly broken: insights from DESI DR2 Milky Way Survey observation
Songting Li, Wenting Wang, Sergey E. Koposov +45
Using K giants from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Milky Way (MW) Survey, we measure the shape, orientation, radial profile, and d…
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…
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…
DESI Mock Challenge: Constructing DESI galaxy catalogues based on FastPM simulations
Andrei Variu, Shadab Alam, Cheng Zhao +30
Together with larger spectroscopic surveys such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the precision of large scale structure studies and thus the constraints on the c…
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…
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…
A Unified Photometric Redshift Calibration for Weak Lensing Surveys using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
Johannes U. Lange, Diana Blanco, Alexie Leauthaud +61
The effective redshift distribution of galaxies is a critical component in the study of weak gravitational lensing. Here, we introduce a new method for determining fo…
DESI Bright Galaxy Survey: Final Target Selection, Design, and Validation
ChangHoon Hahn, Michael J. Wilson, Omar Ruiz-Macias +57
Over the next five years, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will use 10 spectrographs with 5000 fibers on the 4m Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory to…