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astro-ph.CO2026

The Lumina Project: CMB Optical Depth Fluctuations from Patchy Reionization

Aaron Smith, Oliver Zier, Rahul Kannan +8

Patchy reionization couples the ionized-bubble morphology to the underlying density field, making the CMB Thomson optical depth sensitive to both the global ionization history and…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 1 cited

Double-Peaked Ly Emission during Reionization Requires Nearby Voids and a Favorable Local Ionizing Background

Hyunbae Park, Aaron Smith, Intae Jung +11

Several Lyman-alpha (Ly) emitters deep into the reionization era exhibit double-peaked Ly emission profiles, raising the question of how the intergalactic medium can transmit…

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 second…

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.CO2026★ 3 cited

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

The THESAN project: Lyman-alpha intensity mapping of cosmic reionization

Mouza Almualla, Aaron Smith, Rahul Kannan +6

Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) has garnered attention as a powerful cosmological probe, with next-generation instruments such as SPHEREx preparing to map the evolution of large-scale…

astro-ph.CO2025

Parity-odd Four-Point Correlation Function from DESI Data Release 1 Luminous Red Galaxy Sample

J. Hou, R. N. Cahn, J. Aguilar +33

The parity-odd four-point function provides a unique probe of fundamental symmetries and potential new physics in the large-scale structure of the Universe. We present measurements…

astro-ph.CO2025

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.CO2025★ 1 cited

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.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.CO2025★ 1 cited

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.CO2025

Full calibration of the tomographic redshift distribution from the HSC PDR3 Shape Catalog with DESI

J. Choppin de Janvry, S. Gontcho A Gontcho, U. Seljak +53

The calibration of tomographic redshift distributions is essential for cosmological analysis of weak lensing data. In this work, we calibrate all four tomographic bins of the Hyper…

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

Non-linear infusion of intrinsic alignment and source clustering: impact on non-Gaussian cosmic shear statistics

J. Harnois-Déraps, N. Šarčević, L. Medina Varela +15

Intrinsic alignments (IA) of galaxies is one of the key secondary signals to cosmic shear measurements, and must be modeled to interpret weak lensing data and infer the correct cos…

astro-ph.CO2025

Clustering analysis of medium-band selected high-redshift galaxies

H. Ebina, M. White, A. Raichoor +57

Next-generation large-scale structure spectroscopic surveys will probe cosmology at high redshifts , relying on abundant galaxy tracers such as Ly emitters (LAE…

astro-ph.CO2025

DESI Strong Lens Foundry III: Keck Spectroscopy for Strong Lenses Discovered Using Residual Neural Networks

Shrihan Agarwal, Xiaosheng Huang, William Sheu +49

We present spectroscopic data of strong lenses and their source galaxies using the Keck Near-Infrared Echellette Spectrometer (NIRES) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (…

astro-ph.CO2025

Analytic Model for Scattered Ly Emission in the Post-reionization Intergalactic Medium

Hyunbae Park, Hyunmi Song, Chris Byrohl +3

Ly intensity mapping is emerging as a new probe of faint galaxies consisting the cosmic web that elude traditional surveys. However, the resonant nature of Ly radiative trans…

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

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.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★ 2 cited

The THESAN project: environmental drivers of Local Group reionization

Yu Zhao, Aaron Smith, Rahul Kannan +5

The timing of cosmic reionization across Local Group (LG) analogues provides insights into their early histories and surrounding large-scale structure. Using the radiation-hydrodyn…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

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.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 bi…