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most citedThe Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

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astro-ph.CO2026

Background dynamics and observational constraints of flat and non-flat CDM models from and DESI DR2 BAO measurements

Olga Avsajanishvili

In this work, we present comprehensive observational constraints on the time-varying vacuum Lambda(t)CDM cosmology using the latest baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data from Dark…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 4 cited

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

Fiducial-Cosmology-dependent systematics for the DESI 2024 Full-Shape Analysis

R. Gsponer, S. Ramirez-Solano, F. Rodríguez-Martínez +65

We assess the impact of the fiducial cosmology choice on cosmological inference from full-shape (FS) fits of the galaxy power spectrum in the DESI 2024 Data Release 1 (DR1). Using…

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.CO2025

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

James Morawetz, Hanyu Zhang, Marco Bonici +53

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

astro-ph.CO2025★ 9 cited

Model-Independent Measurement of the Matter-Radiation Equality Scale in DESI 2024

B. Bahr-Kalus, D. Parkinson, K. Lodha +52

The peak of the matter power spectrum, known as the turnover (TO) scale, is determined by the horizon size at the time of matter-radiation equality. This scale can serve as a stand…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 62 cited

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.CO2025★ 539 cited

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.CO2025★ 1 cited

The cosmological Mass Varying Neutrino model in the late universe

Olga Avsajanishvili

The cosmological Mass Varying Neutrino (MaVaN) model is considered, where the interaction between a fermionic field and a scalar field with a Ratra-Peebles potential via a Yukawa c…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 81 cited

DESI 2024 II: Sample Definitions, Characteristics, and Two-point Clustering Statistics

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +200

We present the samples of galaxies and quasars used for DESI 2024 cosmological analyses, drawn from the DESI Data Release 1 (DR1). We describe the construction of large-scale struc…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Constraining Galaxy-Halo Connection Using Machine Learning

Abhishek Jana, Lado Samushia

We investigate the potential of machine learning (ML) methods to model small-scale galaxy clustering for constraining Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) parameters. Our analysis re…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 73 cited

DESI 2024 V: Full-Shape Galaxy Clustering from Galaxies and Quasars

A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +195

We present the measurements and cosmological implications of the galaxy two-point clustering using over 4.7 million unique galaxy and quasar redshifts in the range divi…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

Connecting Inflation to the NANOGrav 15-year Data Set via Massive Gravity

Ved Kenjale, Tina Kahniashvili

Several pulsar timing array (PTA) missions have reported convincing evidence of a stochastic gravitational wave background within their latest datasets. This background could origi…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 263 cited

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.CO2023★ 26 cited

Observational Constraints on Dynamical Dark Energy Models

Olga Avsajanishvili, Gennady Y. Chitov, Tina Kahniashvili +2

CDM models provide an alternative to the standard CDM paradigm, while being physically better motivated. These models lead to a time-dependent speed of sound for dark energy…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

Mixing Bispectrum Multipoles Under Geometric Distortions

Giorgi Khomeriki, Lado Samushia

We derive general expressions for how the Alcock-Paczynski distortions affect the power spectrum and the bispectrum of cosmological fields. We compute explicit formulas for the mix…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 5 cited

Relic Gravitational Waves from the Chiral Plasma Instability in the Standard Cosmological Model

Axel Brandenburg, Emma Clarke, Tina Kahniashvili +2

In the primordial plasma, at temperatures above the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking, the presence of chiral asymmetries is expected to induce the development of helical hype…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 343 cited

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.CO2022★ 8 cited

Inflationary and phase-transitional primordial magnetic fields in galaxy clusters

Salome Mtchedlidze, Paola Domínguez-Fernández, Xiaolong Du +4

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) are possible candidates for explaining the observed magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. Two competing scenarios of primordial magnetogenesis have…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 6 cited

Beyond dark energy Fisher forecasts: how DESI will constrain LCDM and quintessence models

Samuel Goldstein, Minsu Park, Marco Raveri +2

We baseline with current cosmological observations to forecast the power of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in two ways: 1. the gain in constraining power of parame…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 15 cited

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Limits and Relic Gravitational Waves Detection Prospects

Tina Kahniashvili, Emma Clarke, Jonathan Stepp +1

We revisit the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) limits on primordial magnetic fields and/or turbulent motions accounting for the decaying nature of turbulent sources between the time…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 35 cited

Evolution of primordial magnetic fields during large-scale structure formation

Salome Mtchedlidze, Paola Domínguez-Fernández, Xiaolong Du +5

Primordial magnetic fields could explain the large-scale magnetic fields present in the Universe. Inflation and phase transitions in the early Universe could give rise to such fiel…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 37 cited

Information Content of Higher-Order Galaxy Correlation Functions

Lado Samushia, Zachary Slepian, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

The shapes of galaxy N-point correlation functions can be used as standard rulers to constrain the distance-redshift relationship and thence the expansion rate of the Universe. The…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 60 cited

Can we observe the QCD phase transition-generated gravitational waves through pulsar timing arrays?

Axel Brandenburg, Emma Clarke, Yutong He +1

We perform numerical simulations of gravitational waves (GWs) induced by hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic turbulent sources that might have been present at cosmological quantum chrom…