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20142026
most citedOverview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

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36 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Early Telescope Throughput Results from the Collimated Beam Projector at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Nathan Amouroux, Parker Fagrelius, Thibault Guillemin +6

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST requires precise photometric calibration to meet its science goals, particularly for cosmological analyses based on Type Ia supernovae. The Colli…

astro-ph.IM2026★ 14 cited

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1

Vera C Rubin Observatory Team, Tatiana Acero Cuellar, Emily Acosta +325

We present Rubin Data Preview 1 DP1, the first data from the NSF DOE Vera C Rubin Observatory, comprising raw and calibrated single epoch images, coadds, difference images, detecti…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 29 cited

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.CO2025★ 101 cited

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★ 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★ 2 cited

The Spectroscopic Stage-5 Experiment

Robert Besuner, Arjun Dey, Alex Drlica-Wagner +106

The existence, properties, and dynamics of the dark sectors of our universe pose fundamental challenges to our current model of physics, and large-scale astronomical surveys may be…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 187 cited

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 Spectrosc…

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★ 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.GA2024★ 17 cited

GD-1 Stellar Stream and Cocoon in the DESI Early Data Release

Monica Valluri, Parker Fagrelius, Sergey. E. Koposov +49

We present 115 new spectroscopically identified members of the GD-1 tidal stream observed with the 5000-fiber Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We confirm the existence…

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.CO2024★ 1.1k cited

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 t…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 254 cited

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 Spectrosc…

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.CO2023★ 6 cited

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.IM2022★ 465 cited

Overview of the Instrumentation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

B. Abareshi, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen +264

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has embarked on an ambitious five-year survey to explore the nature of dark energy with spectroscopy of 40 million galaxies and quas…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 197 cited

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.CO2021★ 16 cited

The HST See Change Program: I. Survey Design, Pipeline, and Supernova Discoveries

Brian Hayden, David Rubin, Kyle Boone +53

The See Change survey was designed to make cosmological measurements by efficiently discovering high-redshift Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and improving cluster mass measureme…

astro-ph.IM2021

Installation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument at the Mayall 4-meter telescope

Robert Besuner, Lori Allen, Charles Baltay +34

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will measure the expansion history of the Universe using the Baryon Acoustic…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 55 cited

SUGAR: An improved empirical model of Type Ia Supernovae based on spectral features

P. -F. Léget, E. Gangler, F. Mondon +40

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are widely used to measure the expansion of the Universe. Improving distance measurements of SNe Ia is one technique to better constrain the acceleratio…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 66 cited

SNEMO: Improved Empirical Models for Type Ia Supernovae

C. Saunders, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus +39

Type Ia supernova cosmology depends on the ability to fit and standardize observations of supernova magnitudes with an empirical model. We present here a series of new models of Ty…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1 cited

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Fiber Positioner Thermal and Wind Disturbance Test

Kai Zhang, Joseph H. Silber, Henry D. Heetderks +8

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is under construction to measure the expansion history of the Universe using the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation technique. The spectra…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 158 cited

Strong Dependence of Type Ia Supernova Standardization on the Local Specific Star Formation Rate

M. Rigault, V. Brinnel, G. Aldering +40

As part of an on-going effort to identify, understand and correct for astrophysics biases in the standardization of Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) for cosmology, we have statistically c…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 14 cited

Correcting for peculiar velocities of Type Ia Supernovae in clusters of galaxies

P. -F. Léget, M. V. Pruzhinskaya, A. Ciulli +43

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are widely used to measure the expansion of the Universe. To perform such measurements the luminosity and cosmological redshift () of the SNe Ia have…