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astro-ph.CO2023

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

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.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.GA2025

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…

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.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.CO2025

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…

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.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

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.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.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.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

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…

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.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

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.CO2023

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…

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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2024

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…

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.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

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.GA2025

Effect of local environment on Ly line profile in DESI/ODIN LAEs

Ana Sofía 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…

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.GA2024

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…

astro-ph.GA2023

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…

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.CO2023

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…

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.HE2024

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

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.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2023

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…

astro-ph.GA2024

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…

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.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2024

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

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.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2024

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…

astro-ph.CO2023

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…

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.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

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.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.CO2024

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,…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

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…

astro-ph.GA2023

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2023

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…

astro-ph.SR2023

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…

astro-ph.GA2023

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…

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.CO2023

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…

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.GA2026

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…

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

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…

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.CO2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2022

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…